This afternoon, the Russian military at the Plesetsk test cosmodrome launched the Sarmat stationary intercontinental ballistic missile from a silo launcher.. In the West, ICBMs are called “Satan 2”.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation assures that “launch tasks have been completed in full”.

This launch is the first in the Russian test program. After the completion of the test program, the Sarmat missile system will go into service with the Russian missile forces, the Russian Defense Ministry assures.. Missile system "

The range of " It is also mentioned that the speed of pre-launch preparation of a 35-meter rocket is reduced to several tens of seconds, which in theory will allow it to compete with the Topol-M and Yars mobile missile systems, and its efficiency is four times higher than that of the mentioned RTOs.

If the START-2 treaty came into force, the class of heavy ICBMs would cease to exist. However, in connection with the non-signing of the treaty, already in the 2010s, information appeared about the development in the Russian Federation of a heavy ICBM to replace the Satan in service, the newest of which began on combat duty in 1992. Sarmat was officially announced in 2018 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.