Since the beginning of large-scale Russian shelling, the names of weapons that we did not even know about in peacetime began to sound more and more often in our conversations. Now we have well remembered the difference between different types of missiles – ballistic and cruise.
The windows will explain in more detail what the Sarmat ballistic missile is and what its characteristics are.
Sarmat rocket: characteristics
So what is a Sarmat rocket? So far, the missile is at the development stage, so it is currently not hitting Ukrainian cities.
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The Sarmat missile or RS-28 Sarmat is a Russian strategic missile system with a liquid intercontinental ballistic missile.
- The length of the ballistic missile is 35 m,
- Mass — 208 tons,
- Casting weight is about 10 tons.
- The flight range in the direction of Western European countries is 9-10 thousand km,
- The total distance that the rocket can fly is up to 16,000 km.
According to the State Rocket Center named after Makeeva, who designed the complex, Sarmat can deliver nuclear warheads across the North or South Pole to any part of the world.
The missile can be launched from mobile launchers, which minimizes the risk of hitting Sarmat at launch. According to Russian engineers, the missile can avoid the enemy’s anti-aircraft system thanks to new technological developments.
One Sarmat missile can carry up to 15 warheads, but it depends on the power of each. If the missile delivers 10 warheads, then each of them is estimated to have about 750 Kt of power.
The use of high-precision hypersonic warheads Yu-71 allows Sarmat to be used in wars for a global strike strategy, with the help of kinetic energy that hits strategic objects without the use of a nuclear explosion.
When the Sarmat missile was tested
The first test launch of the missile took place on April 20, 2022 as part of Russian tests.
The former head of Roscosmos, Dmytro Rogozin, said in the fall of 2022 that rocket production would be completed by December 2022.
On February 20, 2023, during the visit of US President Joe Biden to Kyiv, Russia conducted demonstration tests of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which turned out to be unsuccessful. They wrote about it CNN with reference to American officials who reported this information.
The cost of the Sarmat missile is still unknown, because it has not yet entered large-scale production.
Also read about the characteristics of the Kinzhal missile.
Photo: screenshot from the video Putin’s Armageddon Weapon / Mark Felton Production
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