Anti-ship missiles P-1000 “Vulkan,” which possibly can have a nuclear warhead and were carried by the Moskva cruiser. Oruzhie.info/east2west news
* Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, has been confirmed to have sunk near port of Sevastopol
* Experts and analysts are now warning that the warship may have been carrying two nuclear warheads
* They are calling for an urgent probe into 'broken arrow' incident - military slang for an accident with nukes
* Meanwhile questions remain over the fate of Moskva's 510-strong crew, most of whom are unaccounted for
* Ilya Ponomarev, a politician exiled from Russia, said as many as 452 members of the crew could have died
Russia's Black Sea flagship which sank yesterday after an explosion on board may have been carrying nuclear warheads, analysts and experts have warned today, as a Russian politician said more than 400 sailors could have gone down with the ship.
The Moskva, a Soviet-era guided missile cruiser, sank near the port of Sevastopol on Thursday after Ukraine said it hit the ship with two cruise missiles.
Today, Mykhailo Samus, director of a Lviv-based military think-tank; Andriy Klymenko, editor of Black Sea News; and Ukrainian newspaper Defence Express all warned that the Moskva could have been carrying two nuclear warheads designed to be fitted to its P-1000 'carrier killer' missiles.
Read more ....
Update: Ukrainian experts worry sunken Russian warship was carrying nukes (NYPost)
WNU Editor: It is impossible to verify these reports. But I will not be surprised if America's "nuclear sniffer planes" are flying over the Black Sea right now .... American ‘nuke sniffer’ aircraft operating over Europe (UKDJ).