At least sixteen intercontinental ballistic missiles will be launched within the 2016. This is what is communicated today by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Sixteen tests have already been scheduled - explain from Moscow - the missile Strategic Forces will also perform 100 exercises with the involvement of aviation and the navy.
Finally, the Ministry of Defense states that the exercises will involve all the 40 missile regiments currently in service. The Russians do not specify the weapon systems that will be tested, but it is easy to assume that the first to be launched will be ballistic missiles Bulava intended to equip the entire 'Borey' class. Despite numerous failures due to manufacturing defects, the Russian army claims that there is no alternative to 'Bulava'. Due to the failure during the testing of the new 'Bulava' intercontinental missiles, the 'Borey' are not yet able to carry out their primary task and, that is, nuclear deterrence.
The tests will also cover missiles Topol-M. The 'Topol-M' three-stage missile would be immune to the American anti-missile shield (ABM). His abilities to make sharp turns, release false targets as well as complete shielding against any kind of Emp or Laser attack would make him terribly lethal. The only possibility of breaking it down would be in the boost phase: a task that would be up to the defense systems installed in Poland. Probably, the 'Topol-M' with its 10 thousand km range could hit any part of the United States with impunity.
The update tests will also continue on the RS-24 'Yars' (codename Nato SS-29), a fifth generation intercontinental ballistic missile. It is an updated version of the 'Topol-M' ballistic missile and has been tested and officially presented in the 2007, in response to the installation of NATO's missile shield in Poland. The RS-24 is equipped with a Mirv head (likely Marv) capable of carrying multiple independent warheads designed to evade all existing missile defense systems and hit targets at a maximum distance of twelve thousand kilometers with an 50 meter error. Finally, in the 2016, the prototype of the heavy intercontinental ballistic missile 'Sarmat', under construction, could also be launched. In the first tests the functioning of the pressure accumulator and the missile flight capabilities during all the various phases will be verified. The realized version will be exactly identical, for weight and dimensions, to the combat version that will reach the silos in a few years.
Il Sarmat is part of the exclusive category of "super heavy" thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Under development from the 2015 in response to the American system Prompt Global Strike, the liquid propellant rocket is intended to replace the entire deterrent line formed by the SS-18 Satan, the world's largest intercontinental solid-propellant ballistic missile ever built and entered into service in the 1967. Heavy over 100 tons, the Sarmat has an estimated range of over ten thousand kilometers. It was designed to reach Mach 20 and storm the target by releasing ten heavy warheads (or fifteen lighter ones) with independent multiple indentation. Probably, when it enters service between the 2020 / 2022, it will be equipped exclusively with Marv heads, practically immune to any sort of defensive shield that exists. The probable flight paths to the potential targets will be those above the North Pole and the South Pole.
The Russians intend to replace by the 2025, the 80% of the entire land-based nuclear arsenal with the Sarmat. The new ICBM will be in service with seven regiments of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation. Both the Sarmat the Satan they are more powerful than Minuteman American.
The Russian directive for "a carrier that would have to break through in any kind of misilistic defense of the United States", the 16 of 2011 was issued by the supreme command of Strategic Missile Forces Russian.
Russia currently has 326 intercontinental ballistic missiles with about 1.050 warheads ready to launch (Mirv-Marv). The Ministry of Defense has already announced the withdrawal of almost all the now obsolete ICBMs such as the SS-18 'Satan', SS-19 'Stiletto' and SS-25 'Sickle' (Topol) and replace them with SS- 27 'Sickle -B '(Topol-M) and RS-24 'Yars' within the 2021.
