The Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant is waiting for the arrival of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Krasmash is listed in the list of production facilities that the minister is going to visit this week during a working trip to Siberia. The new Sarmat strategic missile system will be mass-produced at this enterprise. And the head of the Russian military department is personally monitoring all the stages of preparation for this important event not only for the army, but also for the whole country.
At the end of last year, the launch tests of the new RS-28 heavy intercontinental ballistic missile were successfully completed. Its flight tests are next in line. Yesterday, TASS, citing its source in the military-industrial complex, reported that the first such launch is scheduled for autumn. The second one is planned to be completed by the end of 2021. It is based on their results that the decision on the adoption of the Sarmat will be made. And next year, the new complex is going to be put on combat duty in one of the regiments of the Uzhur division of the RVSN.
But this is according to the plans. How it will be in reality, including the next visit to Krasmash by Sergei Shoigu will show. Recall that in December, at the final meeting of the board of the Russian Defense Ministry, he said that in 2021, a test site for Sarmat flight tests will be built in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. It can be assumed that this issue will also be discussed during the Minister's visit to the machine-building plant.
It is known that the Sarmat will replace the world's most powerful strategic mine-based missile RS-20 Voevoda, better known in the West as"Satan". During the throwing tests of the new strategic complex, according to experts, the correctness of the design decisions made, embedded in the latest formidable weapons, was confirmed.
The new rocket is not inferior to its predecessor in any way, and will surpass it in some parameters. With a total weight of one hundred tons, the new rocket with a splitting head will deliver up to 10 tons of payload anywhere in the world. And its high energy will allow us to diversify the ways of countering missile defense means, including the space echelon of shock weapons.
Yuri Gavrilov
