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New Russian RS-28 Sarmat strategic intercontinental missile will be tested within two years 12107153.
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Testing of Russia’s new Sarmat strategic intercontinental missile will begin within two years, the secretary to the commander of the Russian Strategic Missiles Forces said Tuesday, July 21, 2015. The RS-28 Sarmat, or Sarmatian is a future Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped, super-heavy thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile in development by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau from 2009, intended to replace the previous SS-18 Satan.
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 Intercontinental ballistic missile SS-18 Mod 5 (NATO reporting name: Satan), |
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“The third phase of experimental construction work is being completed today and just as the Missile Forces’ commander said not long ago, within the next one and a half or two years, we will move on to the definitive stage of testing this class of missile,” Igor Denisov told journalists.
The experimental constructive work on the new liquid-fueled Sarmat ICBM, which is to replace the Satan, began in 2011. Earlier, a source in the defense industry told RIA Novosti that the Sarmat should enter into service between 2018 and 2020. Sarmat’s characteristics are unknown, it is only known that the missile is to replace the world’s largest strategic missile Voyevoda (NATO reporting name – Satan). According to Borisov, the new rocker’s destructive payload will reach 10 tons. In February 2014, a Russian military official announced the Sarmat was expected to be ready for deployment around 2020. In May that year another official source suggested that the program was being accelerated and that it would, in his opinion, constitute up to 100 percent of Russia's land-based nuclear arsenal by 2021. |
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