I wonder where the guy is who made this mistake. I’m sure Uncle Vlad has a nice bunk for him in the beautiful Siberian wonderland:
Foreign spies in Russia have been handed an unexpected gift by officials in the town of Sarov who accidentally posted details of a new top secret submarine on the local administration’s website.
The embarrassing leak followed what was supposed to be a confidential meeting between the commander of the secret submarine and officials in the closed town, which is home to Russia’s main nuclear research facility.
Instead, overly assiduous officials wrote a press release that covered the meeting in minute detail, not only naming the prototype vessel’s commander as Capt Sergei Kroshkin but even revealing the project’s code number: 20120.
Brilliant. But they were not done:
Other technical and tactical specifications were also given, including the submarine’s water displacement of 3,950 tonnes.
It was not until the story was dutifully picked up by local newspapers that officials noticed the slip.The offending press release has now been removed from the website, and Russia’s navy, defence ministry and armament manufacturing industry have all denied the existence of project 20120.
Well, yeah. Why wouldn’t they? There was enough data leaked that experts have been able to dissect the new sub and discern its capabilities. This has to have some heads rolling in Russia. And I mean literally.
