MOSCOW -- The Russian Navy plans to acquire more than 30 Poseidon strategic nuclear-capable unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). Russia is expected to deploy two Poseidon-carrying submarines with the Northern Fleet and two will the Pacific Fleet. Each of these submarines can carry up to eight UUVs.
The Poseidon UUV is under development in Russia designed to carrying a nuclear warhead with a yield of up to 2 megatons.