“He can create hell on earth.” Tests of Sarmat missile completed

The Sarmat strategic missile system has successfully passed flight tests. About informs The TV channel “Zvezda”, which refers to the words of Colonel General Sergei Karakaev, the commander of the strategic missile forces.

“The active re-equipment of the Strategic Missile Forces with modern missile systems continues. Flight tests of the Sarmat missile system were successfully carried out.

In addition, the launches at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome confirmed the capabilities of Yars PGRK, quoting the TV channel Karakaev.

The Strategic Missile Forces commander added that the practical development of new maneuver regiment methods has been completed. More than 550 training marches have been completed since the beginning of 2022, half of which were at night.

In early November, the former Chief of Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel General Viktor Yesin, told socialbites.ca that the arrival of the missile system was somewhat delayed, including the lack and use of some Ukrainian components. New technological solutions in the production of ICBMs.

According to Yesin, at the beginning of the month, Sarmat was highly prepared to take up combat duty.

“Almost everything is ready for the commissioning of new missiles into combat duty. Products have already been produced in Krasmash in sufficient quantity, and in a month they can be equipped with a missile regiment, ”said the general.

The RS-28 Sarmat is a fifth-generation Russian silo-based strategic missile system with a heavy multi-stage liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It should replace the Voevoda complex, which has been in service with Russian troops since 1988.

Its main difference from the previous generation of intercontinental missiles is that the emphasis is placed not on the maximum weight of the warheads, but on their maneuver. That is, “Sarmat” is better able to bypass the air defense systems of a potential enemy. The “orbital bombing” system embedded in the rocket allows it to be used not only for military purposes, but also to launch civilian spacecraft into near-Earth orbit.

The missiles of the Sarmat complex have a length of 35.5 meters and a diameter of 3 meters. The launch weight is 208 tons, the rocket has 10 warheads of 750 kilotons of TNT each (8 megatons in total, more than 530 Hiroshima).

The maximum firing range is 18,000 kilometers, which allows attacks on enemy territory along a suborbital trajectory along the South Pole, bypassing air defense.

Serial production of the Sarmatov is carried out at the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant, the first samples should this year reach the 62nd Missile Division in Uzhur, Krasnoyarsk Territory and the 13th Missile Division in Yasnoy (Orenburg region).

The first test launch of the new rocket was carried out in April this year from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The target was a training ground in Kamchatka.

“The design features have been validated at all stages of its flight. At that time, training warheads arrived at a certain area at the Kura training ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula, ”said Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the RF Ministry of Defense. The military department said that after the completion of the tests, the Sarmatians will enter service.

The development and testing of the Sarmat complex has repeatedly caused frightening and even panicked publications in the Western media. Thus, in 2019, the British The Times published an article describing the new Russian weapons as a serious challenge for NATO and confirming that even modern air defense systems cannot prevent it.

In 2021, The Sun named the Sarmat, which NATO dubbed “Devil-2”, the “biggest beast” in the Russian arsenal. Later, another publication said that the “Sarmatians” could in principle destroy the whole of Great Britain. The authors noted speeds of up to 26,000 km/h maneuvering along an unpredictable trajectory in the atmosphere.

“This way, the probability of overcoming all existing and prospective missile defense systems is almost one hundred percent,” the article says.

After the first tests in April, the Daily Mail described the missile as “a chilling message to the West” from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The launch on the other side of the ocean did not go unnoticed: American New York Post journalists called the complex a “devil in disguise” capable of “creating hell on Earth.”