Moscow. January 8th. INTERFAX - The heavy intercontinental missile system "Voevoda" will be gradually replaced with a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" from 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.
"In the Uzhursky missile compound, located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, work has been launched to prepare the main missile regiment for rearmament with the new Sarmat missile system. For these purposes, the appropriate infrastructure is being prepared in the re-equipped regiment," the ministry's information department reported.
"Starting from 2022, it is planned to gradually withdraw the Voevoda heavy-class missile system from the Strategic Missile Forces group and replace it with the Sarmat," the department added.
According to him, the first regiment of the Sarmat ICBM will be on combat duty by the end of 2022
Flight tests of the new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat" will begin in 2021 and should be completed in 2022, the rocket should start arriving in the Strategic Missile Forces in 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on August 6, visiting the Krasmash plant (Roscosmos). This plant will produce the Sarmat rocket.
Earlier, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said about the Sarmat: "This is a heavy ballistic missile that is capable of overcoming, tearing to shreds literally any missile defense - current, prospective, it does not matter."
It was reported that the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM will replace the most powerful mine-based strategic missile in the world, the RS-20V Voevoda (according to the NATO classification - SS-18 Satan). in the Uzhurskaya (Krasnoyarsk Territory) and Dombarovskaya (Orenburg region) divisions of the RVSN.
