“In total we will have 46 Sarmat strategic combat complexes. These will be installed in the mines where Voevoda is located. I posted a comparison video on my telegram channel, which means that Sarmat leaves Voyevoda twice as fast, that is, passes the active section in a shorter time, so even at the beginning it is not possible to hit it will be extremely difficult, almost impossible.The combat control system, which includes experts from Roscosmos, is constantly being tested.
This thing works very reliably and is ominous in terms of the potential for retaliation that could be turned on any attacker’s head,” said Rogozin.
RS-28 Sarmat is a promising land-based silo-based missile system capable of carrying nuclear payloads. “Sarmat” has been developed since the 2000s at the JSC “State Missile Center”. VP Makeev. Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant is engaged in production.
It was previously reported that Sarmat should enter the Russian army in 2022, the first to receive the complex will be the Uzhur missile formation located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The terms for the acquisition of “Sarmat” in the troops were repeatedly delayed. In the 2010s, when the Sarmat program was just being launched, it was rumored that the new missile system will appear in the troops by 2015, then by 2017.
“For the past ten years, and perhaps more, Russia has constantly worked to update and improve its ballistic missile fleet. At the same time, Moscow had much more modest financial opportunities than the United States, limited by outdated technologies and a lack of a staff base in a number of key areas. However, the Russian army did this and “turned a new leaf”.
Rocket technology in the US remains at the level of the 1970s. We will have to work hard to level the situation. In the arms race, the Pentagon needs to catch up, not flee from Russia,” Andrew Thompson, an American military expert and professor in Columbia University’s Department of International Studies, wrote in a column for the Wall Street Journal.
A similar view is shared by Ryan Hillsberg, a military analyst and former CIA officer who told Fox News that the United States has only the LGM-30 Minuteman III missile from its land-based ballistic missile arsenal.
“The Russians have a wide range, we have to admit we missed the moment,” Hillsberg added.
According to Dmitry Stefanovich, a researcher at IMEMO RAS, earlier in connection with the creation of a new intercontinental ballistic missile in the United States, there were thoughts about the“ black leg ”of the American nuclear triad, which appeared later. Sarmat, it will be almost impossible to somehow counter the creation of a new generation of American intercontinental ballistic missiles.
“The LGM-35A Sentinel program is likely to be activated. Overall, existing trends in the US nuclear program will accelerate. Since the Sarmat can be equipped with hypersonic gliders, accordingly, the Americans say that they also need hypersonic nuclear missiles. Until now, not all hypersonic weapons programs were strictly nuclear, ”Stefanovich concluded.
Military expert Konstantin Bogdanov believes that “the US nuclear program is now generally at the beginning of a renewal cycle.”
“The United States is creating a new LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile to replace the LGM-30G Minuteman III, which has been in service since the 1970s. LRSO strategic cruise missiles for heavy bombers should start arriving by 2025 to replace the AGM-86 ALCM. This is an old rocket, over 40 years old, Bogdanov told socialbites.ca.
At the same time, the problem of creating new plutonium cores, which are the basis for nuclear warheads, could become an obstacle to the US nuclear missile program.
“Jill Gruby, head of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Safety, has once again confirmed that the old plan – 80 cores by 2030 – is unattainable because in some areas it is necessary to restore production capacity and staffing. . At one time, the United States had a simple production of plutonium and not even as much plutonium as products based on it. It’s not about technology, it’s about no longer production capacities,” said Bogdanov.