Moscow –
Russia announced its newest nuclear weapons system, Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missileis now operational and possibly deployed in the war on Ukraine. The new intercontinental missile, dubbed ‘Satan II’, is claimed to be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads to targets as far away as the mainland. United States of America (AS).
As reported CNN and ReutersSaturday (2/9/2023), the announcement was made by the director general of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, Yury Borisov, in a press statement released Friday (1/9) local time.
“The systems of the Sarmat strategic complex have been placed on combat duty,” Borisov said in a statement.
The intercontinental ballistic missile system was supposed to enter service at the end of 2022, but has been delayed.
The Sarmat missile will replace the Soviet-era Voevoda missile, referred to by NATO as the SS-18 ‘Satan’, in Russia’s strategic arsenal of assets. As a successor to the SS-18 missile, the Sarmat missile is dubbed by the West as the ‘Satan II’ missile.
President Vladimir Putinlast June, stated that the Sarmat missile would be deployed for combat duty ‘soon’.
Prior to that, in April, Putin had claimed that the Sarmat missile would be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads to the US mainland — and would “make those who seek to threaten Russia think again.”
At the time, Western analysts told CNN that the Sarmat missile threat to the US and its allies was ‘very low’. It was also stated at the time that the missile test was blatantly intended to hide Russia’s military failures in the war in Ukraine.
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2023-09-02 11:52:35
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