Moscow. December 17. INTERFAX-Work on a new Sarmat intercontinental missile is in the final stage, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"We are actively working on a heavy rocket - the Sarmat. At the final stage, " Putin said at a press conference on Thursday.
As the president noted, for all other weapons systems that were announced in one of his messages, "work is underway on all of them."
"Some are already on combat duty. "Dagger" - on combat duty. "Peresvet, this laser weapon is already on combat duty," Putin said.
He also noted that " the work on Poseidon is going well." "For a missile with a nuclear propulsion system of global range, everything is also going according to the plan," he said.
"i do not see a single problematic issue that would say that we will not do something from the planned. we will do everything, i am sure, " putin stated.
poseidon is a nuclear-powered drone submarine. In July 2020, the Russian military reported that work on the creation of the ocean system is being completed. It is believed that the Poseidon carriers will be the nuclear submarines Belgorod and Khabarovsk.
Earlier on Thursday, the Russian military department reported on the progress of testing and putting into service the latest complexes. in particular, according to him, tests of poseidon elements are at the final stage, and "tests to confirm the dynamic characteristics of the device during launches in real conditions and check the parameters of the device's movement on the route in autonomous mode"have begun at the ministry's landfills.
the ministry of defense also reported on the successful completion of the launch tests of the sarmat icbm and the preparation of flight tests of the missile. In turn, the combat laser complex "Peresvet" has already entered service with the Space Forces, the ministry reported.
The Avangard hypersonic missile system will be operated in the Dombarovsky missile Compound of the Strategic Missile Forces, the Defense Ministry said. at the moment, the infrastructure for the operation of the complex is being prepared.
The Ministry of Defense is preparing for flight tests of a nuclear-powered cruise missile Burevestnik, the military department said. According to him the missile is invulnerable to existing and future missile defense systems
