Moscow. May 22. INTERFAX - Russia will soon put about 50 new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on combat duty, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.
"We will soon have almost fifty such "Sarmatians" on combat duty," Rogozin said on the Telegram channel on Sunday.
Earlier, Rogozin said that serial deliveries of the Sarmat ICBM by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are planned to begin by the end of autumn this year.
On April 20, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the first test launch of a stationary-based Sarmat ICBM from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
It was reported that the Sarmat missiles will be mass-produced at the Krasmash plant (Krasnoyarsk, Roscosmos Corporation).
It was officially reported that the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM will replace the world's most powerful mine-based strategic missile RS-20V Voevoda (according to NATO classification - SS-18 Satan). in the Uzhurskaya (Krasnoyarsk Territory) and Dombarovskaya (Orenburg Region) divisions of Strategic Missile Forces.
