The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile will take up combat duty of the Strategic Missile Forces in 2022, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Wednesday, December 16.
"Currently, industrial enterprises continue to set readiness for state flight tests of the Sarmat missile system. Already today, the Uzhur rocket connection has launched work on preparing the main missile regiment for rearmament. Putting on combat duty is planned in 2022, " the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces said.
"sarmat" (rs-28) will replace the world's heaviest strategic missile "voevoda "(according to the nato classification - "satan", rs-20b). Development work on the Sarmat project began in 2011. the new missile will be able to attack targets both through the north pole and through the south pole, overcoming missile defense systems. the rocket is being developed by the makeev center and will be produced at krasmash.
the russian advanced sarmat missile system with a heavy liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile will be able to attack targets across the north and south poles, overcoming the enemy's missile defense systems.
The firing range of the Sarmat is 18 thousand km, the launch mass is 208.1 tons, the payload mass is more than 10 tons, the length of the rocket is 35.5 m, the diameter is 3 m.
In January, the Defense Ministry announced that the Strategic Missile Forces will be fully equipped with new missile systems by 2024. Thus, the troops "will cross the line beyond which there will be no Soviet-made missile systems left in the combat composition."
Currently, there are seven types of missile systems in the combat composition of the missile forces. These complexes are stationary ("Voevoda", "Stiletto", "Topol-M", "Yars") and mobile ("Topol-M", "Topol", "Yars") based. in the near future, it is planned to re-equip the compounds to the sarmat, avangard and yars complexes.
At the end of May 2019, the Ministry of Defense announced the launches of "Sarmatians" in the period from 2019 to 2021.
