Russia has successfully tested the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile system (ICBM), Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Sergey Karakayev said in a report to Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin.
Strategic Missile Forces Commander Sergey Karakayev reported to the president that the deployment of Sarmat launchers "will significantly enhance the combat capabilities of the ground-based strategic nuclear forces to guarantee the destruction of targets and fulfill strategic deterrence missions."
He noted that the test results of the Sarmat missile system confirmed the specified characteristics and the correctness of the solutions incorporated into it: "The test results confirmed the correctness of the design and technological solutions, as well as the missile system’s ability to achieve its quality conformance characteristics."
The Strategic Missile Forces commander noted that the Russian Sarmat strategic missile system surpasses the Soviet-made Voyevoda system in terms of operational range and combat capabilities: "The Sarmat stationary silo-based strategic missile system with an intercontinental ballistic missile is being developed to replace the Soviet-made Voyevoda system. In terms of combat capabilities, the Sarmat surpasses its predecessor, primarily in terms of range, throw-weight, launch readiness, and the countermeasures it employs, which allow it to reliably overcome existing and future missile defense systems."
Karakayev noted that the successful launch of the Russian Sarmat strategic missile system will allow the Russian Armed Forces to deploy the first missile regiment equipped with this system on combat duty by the end of 2026: "The positive results of the Sarmat missile system launch will allow the first missile regiment equipped with this missile system to be deployed on combat duty in the Uzhur formation in the Krasnoyarsk Region by the end of this year."
Putin noted that the Sarmat will be put on combat duty by the end of this year: "The Sarmat will indeed be deployed on combat duty by the end of this year." According to the head of state, "The missile can move not only on a ballistic but also on a suborbital trajectory, which allows for a range of over 35,000 km while doubling its accuracy and the ability to penetrate all existing and future missile defense systems," Putin noted.
The president emphasized that this is "the most powerful package system in the world, equal in power to the Soviet-era Voyevoda missile system in our arsenal." "The total yield of the delivered warhead is more than four times greater than that of any existing, most powerful Western equivalent," the Russian head of state added.
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Russia is engaged in the gradual development of its nuclear forces, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
ReplyDelete"We are gradually implementing the adopted… program for the development of nuclear forces," Putin said after being briefed on the successful test launch of the advanced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile system.
The President recalled that "since 2025, the Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile system is on combat duty and it can be armed with nuclear warheads."
"Work on two systems equipped with small-sized nuclear power units is in the final stage. They are the unique Poseidon nuclear-powered unmanned underwater vehicle and the unique Burevestnik unlimited-range cruise missile," the president emphasized.
The ending of the New START agreement in February formally released the world's two largest nuclear powers from a raft of restrictions.
ReplyDelete"This is the most powerful missile system in the world," claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin after receiving a report of a successful launch of Sarmat, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
He said the missile could carry a warhead more than four times more powerful than anything Western militaries possessed, adding that Sarmat would be on "combat duty" by the end of this year.
Even though Moscow and Washington agreed to reestablish high-level military dialogue shortly after New START expired, there were no immediate signs of renewing or prolonging it.
President Putin said in his address to the Federal Assembly in March 2018 that Russia had developed a small-sized nuclear power unit that could be used in a cruise missile that would get actually an unlimited range. As the head of the state pointed out the missile would fly at low altitudes and be stealthy with an unpredictable flight path and would get a nuclear warhead.
ReplyDeleteSarmat, referred to as "Satan II" in NATO designation, is the first ICBM produced in post-Soviet Russia to be classed as "super heavy".
ReplyDeletePut said it was capable of travelling 35,000 kilometres (22,000 miles).
Sarmat est le système de missiles le plus puissant au monde - Poutine
ReplyDeleteLe missile Sarmat est capable de voler sur une distance de 35.000 kilomètres tout en faisant fi des défenses anti-aériennes existantes.
Ukraine has struck gas facilities in Russia's Orenburg region, more than 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) from the Ukrainian border, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteZelenskyy also said that Kyiv was working with its allies in Europe to develop technologies to defend against ballistic missiles, adding that 13 countries and NATO representatives had participated in talks on the issue on Tuesday.