Nuclear, Putin ready to deploy Sarmat ballistic missile
Putin has announced that the Sarmat ICBM will be deployed this year. Also known as Satan II, it is capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads. According to the Russian president Sarmat can hit any target on Earth.
Russia's Sarmat ICBMs will be deployed this year.
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a video speech the enhancement of the country's nuclear arsenal, with the deployment of the intercontinental ballistic missiles Sarmat, nicknamed "Satan II" by Western analysts.
Putin said Russia will pay more attention to strengthening its nuclear forces by deploying a new ICBM, hypersonic missiles and new nuclear submarines.
In the aftermath of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president on Monday announced the suspension of his country's participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States. Additionally, CNN reported on Feb. 22 that the United States believes Russia carried out a Sarmat test shortly before Biden visited Ukraine earlier this week, but that test failed. The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on that report.
Sarmat is among the next-generation Russian missiles that Putin has called "invincible": capable of hitting any target on Earth.
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STRENGTHENING NUCLEAR TRIAD
“First of all, we will pay more attention to strengthening the nuclear triad,” Putin explained in a speech broadcast on state television yesterday. Russia's nuclear arsenal includes land, sea and air based nuclear missiles.
Specifically, Russia will continue mass production of air-based hypersonic Kinzhal systems and initiate mass supplies of sea-based Zircon hypersonic missiles.
“With the adoption of the Borei-A nuclear submarine project 'Emperor Alexander III' in the navy, the share of modern weapons and equipment in the naval strategic nuclear forces will reach one hundred percent,” Putin ruled.
“Over the next few years, three more cruisers of this project will replenish the combat strength of the fleet,” he added.
THE SARMAT MISSILE ALSO KNOWN AS SATAN 2
The RS-28 Sarmat, Russia's largest ballistic missile, is a silo-based “super-heavy” ICBM. In charge of the development is the Russian company Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau since 2009.
The 35-metre missile has a range of 18,000 km and can reach speeds of mach 20. It is designed to carry a payload of up to 10 warheads.
As Rid explained, "the missile is capable of carrying a payload of 10 t, being able to mount between 10 and 16 MIRV nuclear warheads (depending on the potential), or alternatively a combination of warheads and countermeasures (which would allow, according to the Russians, to overcome any anti-ballistic defense), or an unspecified number of AVANGARD hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV).
THE SUCCESSFUL TEST OF APRIL 2022
In 2016 Russia successfully tested the engine for the first stage. In December 2017, the first test to evaluate the silo exit phase took place.
On April 20, 2022, Moscow successfully tested the RS-28 SARMAT ICBM at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. On that occasion, the Defense Ministry said it had hit targets more than 5,600 km away on the Kamchatka Peninsula near Alaska.
"Russia has correctly notified the United States, under the new obligations of the START treaty, that it intends to test this ICBM," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby commented at the time. "Such tests are routine and it's no surprise," Kirby stressed, adding that the United States "did not consider the test to pose a threat to the United States or its allies."
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/nucleare-putin-pronto-a-schierare-missile-balistico-sarmat/ on Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:42:41 +0000.