Moscow. June 15th. INTERFAX - The first group of officers to operate the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has completed training at the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, the head of the Academy Igor Afonin said.
"This year we are already carrying out the first issue of officers for the operation of the new Sarmat mine-based missile system with a liquid heavy missile," he said in an interview with the Russian Defense Ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.
On April 20, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the first test launch of the Sarmat ICBM from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
"The new complex has the highest tactical and technical characteristics and is able to overcome all modern means of missile defense. It has no analogues in the world and will not be for a long time," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on April 20 after watching the successful test launch of the Sarmat by video link.
On May 22, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced that Russia will soon put about 50 Sarmat ICBMs on combat duty. Prior to that, Rogozin said that serial deliveries of these missiles to the Russian Defense Ministry are planned to begin by the end of autumn this year.
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 the RVSN.
The Sarmat missile can be equipped with several Avangard hypersonic combat units, the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Sergei Karakaev, said on April 24.
