# Russia's new "Skyfall' Missile

**URL:** https://teo9i.com/t/russias-new-skyfall-missile/8062
**Category:** World
**Tags:** Military, military-history
**Created:** [November 2, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://teo9i.com/t/russias-new-skyfall-missile/8062 "2025-11-02T15:54:59Z")
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# Russia’s new "Skyfall’ Missile - Evaluation & the Danger of “Superweapon Syndrome”

Another week, another Russian nuclear superweapon - but this time, it’s a bit of a head scratcher. The new Burevestnik missile essentially revives a concept (the intercontinental cruise missile) that both the USSR and USA discarded back in the 1960s.

Despite its intimidating NATO reporting name (SSC-X-9 Skyfall), Russia’s nuclear powered cruise missile is arguably worth looking at not so much because of what it can do, but because of what it likely can’t.

The question of why a country would choose to fund something like this over and above thousands of other much reasonable and urgent priorities gives us a chance to dig into Russia’s priorities and the historical tendency of many states to back blingy superweapons at the expense of more boring, useful investments.

[![](https://teo9i.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/9/89e3e78eb7e6591da9273de1741b5c1bdeb74e6c.jpeg "Russia's new "Skyfall' Missile - Evaluation & the Danger of "Superweapon Syndrome"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0t8UYZ9rrQ)