The RS-28 Sarmat missile system, which can carry about ten nuclear warheads, “will make those who try to threaten” Russia think twicesaid Vladimir Putin.
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He “will make those who try to threaten“ RussiaVladimir Putin said on television. In full offensive on Ukraine, the Russian leader attended the first test firing of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-28 Sarmat, according to Russian news agencies, Wednesday April 20.
The shot of this “unique weapon” was conducted at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 800 km north of Moscow, says the Russian Defense Ministry. The warheads it was carrying reached the Koura impact zone in Kamchatka, 6100 kilometers away. VS’is the most powerful missile with the longest kill range in the world, and the first of a test program, according to the ministry. It is designed to carry a dozen nuclear warheads, explained to AFP Guy Martin, the editor-in-chief of the South African site defenceWeb.
This fifth-generation Sarmat missile, nicknamed “Satan 2” by NATO analysts, is supposed to evade missile defenses. Weighing over 200 tons, it outperforms its predecessor, the Voevoda missile with a range of 11,000 km, and “has virtually no limits when it comes to range”according to Vladimir Putin, who judges him capable of “aim at targets crossing the North Pole like the South Pole”.
This weapon is part of a series of other missiles presented in 2018 as “invisible” by Vladimir Putin, including the Kinjal and Avangard hypersonic missiles. “This type of missile is a new type of technology that is not constrained by the New Start treaty, a strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States, signed in 2010”explained in 2019 to franceinfo Corentin Brustlein, director of the center for security studies at the French Institute of International Relations.