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In 2021, Russia is to carry out three test launches of its RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
“Three launches of the Sarmat ICBM will be carried out as part of flight development tests in 2021,” several unnamed TASS sources said.
“The first launch of the Sarmat ICBM within the framework of flight development tests will be carried out tentatively in the third quarter of 2021, a field at the Kura testing range on Kamchatka will be a target,” another source said.
The sources told TASS that all the three launches would be performed from a silo at the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia. One of those missiles will probably be fired at its maximum range.
More conclusive, state trials will begin in 2022, with first regiment entering combat service at the end of the year, the sources said.
“The defense ministry is already purchasing serially produced missiles,” one of them added.
The RS-28 Sarmat missile caused a bit of a stir in British media, with the Daily Mail writing an incredible report on the matter.
It is titled: “Russia announces three tests of Putin’s ‘invincible’ new hypersonic ‘Satan 2’ super nuke capable of wiping out an area the size of England and Wales.”
No fear mongering there.
It is a scary weapon indeed, if British media is concerned.
“Previous footage of the ‘invincible’ hypersonic weapon, known in the West as ‘Satan-2’, during a drop test shows it emerging from its silo – pausing as if hovering above the ground, and then speeding to its target in a cloud of white smoke.”
Sarmat is to replace R-36M2 Voevoda missiles, which have been the most powerful in the world and operational since 1970s.
Sarmat considerably exceeds the specifications of its predecessor. Some of its characteristics were disclosed at Army-2019 forum. The new missile weighs 208.1 tons, the payload is close to 10 tons and the fuel is 178 tons. The range of Sarmat is 18 thousand kilometers.
Additionally, Sarmat has completely new means to counter missile defense.
Its active flight stage, when the missile accelerates and is visible and vulnerable to missile defense, has been reduced.
The shorter acceleration section is important for the breakthrough of missile defense, as the separation of reentry vehicles and discharge of dummy targets are possible only after the boost. Sarmat engines rapidly boost the missile to the safe zone and make it invulnerable for the missile defense until it reaches the main flight trajectory.
It can fly by unpredictable routes and bypass missile defense areas. It can fly over the North and South Pole and approach targets from directions that are not envisaged for interception.
To make it even more impressive, it can allegedly carry other reentry vehicles such as the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle and other missiles.
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Brits are only salty because they have no land based ICBMs. And the Lockheed Trident II are as unreliable as MGs on a rainy Sunday…
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I thought the Sarmat had a variable payload i.e could carry a much larger payload for shorter strikes?
MAD. One missile will kill all of England. 1 missile releases 10 warheads, 750 Kt each. If 1 warhead hits a nuclear power facility, the whole fucking world gets cooked with a billion curries of atomized radiation from just 1 cooling pond. We knew this and we built over 400 nuclear power reactors anyway. And each cooling pond has at least 50 tons of fissionable material as well. And what happens to that fissionable material at ground zero? Does anyone have a clue? NOBODY KNOWS. NOBODY ON THIS LITTLE BLUE SPHERE CALLED EARTH KNOWS FOR SURE. Putin is right. He had to create this God awful weapon to protect Russia from NATO AND THIS PIECE OF SHIT COUNTRY. JAY LINDBERG