In case of successful launches, decisions will be made on the adoption of the complex for Strategic Missile Forces, the interlocutor of TASS noted.
MOSCOW, December 20. /tass/. The first test launch of the newest liquid-fueled heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" has been postponed to 2022. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
"The first launch of the Sarmat ICBM as part of flight design tests (LKI) has been postponed from December 2021 to the first quarter of 2022," he said.
TASS has no official confirmation of this information.
Earlier it was reported that the test program of the Sarmat ICBM has been changed, instead of two launches from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2021, one was planned in December.
According to the interlocutor of the agency, in case of successful launches in 2022, decisions will be made on the adoption of a missile system for Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) and the installation of the first regiment "Sarmatov" in the Uzhur connection on combat duty as part of the regiment's command post and several mine launchers.
About "Sarmat"
On December 16, on the air of the Zvezda TV channel, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, said that the first regiment of the Sarmat complex would take up combat duty at the end of 2022 in the Uzhur missile compound. According to him, infrastructure is currently being prepared in the Uzhur Rocket Division (Krasnoyarsk Territory).
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. Earlier it was also reported that the Sarmat ICBM will enter service in 2021. In August, when visiting the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant, the head of the Russian military department, Sergei Shoigu, said 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 missile was developed at the V. P. Makeev State Missile Center, whose main specialization is the development of sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. 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. It is known that to date, three ICBM launches have been carried out from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
