Russia has put into operation advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that President Vladimir Putin once said would make the country’s enemies “think twice,” the head of Russia’s space agency said Friday Roscosmos.
Yuri Borisovdirector of the agency, said that the Sarmat missiles have been placed in combat duty, according to various Russian news agencies. No details were given.
The Sarmat is one of several advanced weapons whose development Putin announced in 2018. The missiles — which are fired from silos — are capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, and will replace the R-36 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which NATO calls Satan.
Sarmats presumably have a short initial launch phase, giving surveillance systems little time to track them.
In 2022, about two months after he sent his troops to Ukraine, Putin said the Sarmats would “guarantee Russia’s security against external threats.”and they will make those who, in the heat of aggressive speeches, try to threaten our country, think twice”.
ICBMs would be mass-produced at the plant Krasmash (in the Siberian Krasnoyarsk region) from Roscosmos.
On April 20, 2022, Russia carried out a test launch with the Sarmat, which was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome alreadyIt reached its destination 6,000 kilometers away in the Kura polygonon the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The launch was broadcast on public television and chaired by the Russian president, who had launched the war in Ukraine two months earlier.
Putin stressed that the Sarmat “is capable of surpassing all modern anti-missile defense means”, in addition to possessing tactical-technical characteristics of the highest level.
“It has no analogues in the world and will not for a long time,” assured.
The RS-28 Sarmat, classified by NATO as SS-X-30 or Satan-2, replaces the world’s most powerful silo-site missile, the RS-20B Voevoda (SS-18 or Satan).
Putin introduced Sarmat to society on March 2, 2018, just before his re-election, during a controversial state of the nation address.
He then warned the West that the Sarmat has “virtually unlimited range,” so the US anti-missile system “will have nothing to do”.
With a range of between 17,000 and 18,000 kilometers, it is called to be a key piece of Russia’s weapons arsenal, capable of hitting targets throughout Europe and even reaching United States territory.
(With information from AP, EP and EFE)
Source-www.infobae.com