The TASS news Agency reported on May 5, 2021, that three launches of the promising Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as part of flight design tests (LKI) will be performed in 2021. This was reported to TASS by sources in the military-industrial complex and close to the military department.
The RS-28 "Sarmat" ground-based, ground-based, Russian missile system © Press Service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / TASS
"Three launches of the Sarmat ICBM as part of flight design tests will be completed in 2021," one of them said.
"The first launch of the Sarmat ICBM within the framework of flight design tests will be performed approximately in the third quarter of this year on the combat field at the Kura test site in Kamchatka," another said.
According to sources, all three launches will be carried out from the Plesetsk cosmodrome silo launcher, one of them possibly at the maximum range. The sources noted that the state tests of the Sarmat are scheduled for 2022, with the first regiment being put on combat duty at the end of the year. "The Defense Ministry is already purchasing serial missiles,"one of them said.
On the part of the bmpd, we recall that earlier the start of flight and design tests of the promising liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) RS-28 Sarmat (the lead developer is JSC "State Rocket Center named after Academician V. P. Makeev" as part of JSC " United Rocket and Space Corporation "of the State Corporation" Roscosmos") it was announced first for 2019, then for the beginning of 2020 . Throwing tests in the number of three for the Sarmat ROC were conducted from December 2017 to May 2018.
