Russia: ICBM 'super-heavy' online within the 2022

27/06/15

The 'Sarmat' heavy intercontinental ballistic missile prototype will be built by next October and not by June, as previously expected. This is what was declared by the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant, the military industrial complex that is implementing the new system to the Russian agency TASS.

"More than the 60% of the prototype has been completed, but delays have occurred with contractors who have not yet supplied all the components. The current production tests are dedicated to the engines ".

After the 'drop-tests', we will proceed to the flight phase foreseen in the 2016. 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.

Sarmat is included in the exclusive category of "super heavy" thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Under development from the 2015 in response to the American Prompt Global Strike system, the liquid propellant rocket is intended to replace the entire deterrent line formed by the SS-18 Satans, the largest solid intercontinental ballistic missile in the world ever made and entered 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 2025% of the entire land-based nuclear arsenal with the Sarmat by 80. The new ICBM will be in service with seven regiments of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation.

The United States intends to maintain Minuteman III ballistic missiles up to the 2030 with a series of upgrades, although the Air Force has never hidden its intention to develop a new system. Both the Sarmat and the Satan are more powerful than the Minuteman.

The Russian directive for "a carrier that would have to break through in any kind of misilistic defense of the United States" was issued the 16 December of the 2011 by the supreme command of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces.

Franco Iacch