TASS has no official confirmation of this information
MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. Two test launches of the newest liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" are planned to be completed by the end of 2021, the first of them in November. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
"As part of the flight design tests (LKI), it is planned to perform two launches of the Sarmat ICBM from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2021, the first in November," he said.
According to him, in 2022, the LKI missiles will continue, then state tests will be conducted so that by the end of the year the first regiment with missiles of this type will take up combat duty as part of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN).
TASS has no official confirmation of this information.
In June, the general director of the kRasmash plant, Alexander Gavrilov, told TASS that the launch of the rocket is scheduled for the third quarter of 2021. In August, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that flight tests of the SARMAT will begin this year and should be completed in 2022, after which the missile will enter service with the Strategic Missile Forces.
The Sarmat ICBM was developed at the V. P. Makeev State Missile Center, whose main specialization is the development of sea-based ICBMs. According to experts, the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM is capable of delivering a separable warhead weighing up to 10 tons to anywhere in the world, both through the North and South Poles.
