"On Russia's RS-28 strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles " Sarmatian" (western classification SS-X-30), known in the West as "Satan 2", they only need 3 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Strasbourg."
This was stated 2 days ago (September 20) by Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the Russian State Duma.
„Sarmatian” is one of six new Russian strategic weapons presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as March 1, 2018, but still cannot be introduced into the army.
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One day ago (yesterday) on September 21, the “Sarmat” it only took a few seconds for her to detonate herself, the launch complex, and set the surrounding area on fire. Planet Labs images show the destruction of the silo, where there is a crater. NASA data shows fires near the launch site and a high-intensity fire..
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What's the problem?
A rocket must have at least a dozen launches and at least 80% reliability in them to be put into regular service.
***** For example, the 200-ton missile RS-20 (R-36M, according to the western classification SS-18, “Satan“) is from the time of the USSR. It was created with the broad participation of the "Yuzhnoe" design bureau. and the "Yuzhmash" plant (both in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR). The tests included 43 launches, of which 7 were unsuccessful.
***** During the testing of the next modification R-36M UTTH (15A18), 19 test launches (2 unsuccessful) were carried out from 1977 to 1979.
***** The modification P-36M2 (15A18M) RS-20B “Voivode” was tested in 1986-1988, with 26 missiles fired (4 failed launches).
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At “Sarmat” the starts are few and a significant part unsuccessful.
*** At the end of December 2017, the first launch took place from the cosmodrome in Plisetsk – successful.
*** On March 30, 2018, the Russians released a video showing Sarmat making its second successful test launch at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
Then the failures begin.
Because “Sarmat” had to be redone - practically from scratch.
With the coming to power of President Zelensky, cooperation in the military industry and cooperation in weapons between Ukraine and Russia have been terminated and the relevant contracts – denounced. The State Rocket Center “ Design Bureau “ Academician V.P. Makeev“ and production were transferred to Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The missile is powered by the new RS-99 engines, which are a deep upgrade of those of the previous ones. Without the cooperation of the Ukrainian specialists, the two nines turned out to be very unreliable.
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The only successful trial is on April 20, 2022
Regardless of the failures, on August 16, 2022, a government contract for the production and delivery of the Sarmat missile system was signed. On November 23, 2022, the Director General of the State Rocket Center “Makeev” Vladimir Degtyar announced the beginning of mass production of the rocket.
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On September 1, 2023, Roscosmos Director General Yury Borisov stated that the weapon system was placed on official combat duty., without specifying details.
This is a regiment of the 62nd Missile Division of the Strategic Missile Forces, stationed in Uzhur, part of the 33rd Guards Missile Army headquartered in Omsk in southwestern Siberia. The regiment has six such missiles. The program envisages as the first stage the deployment of 48 "Sarmat" missiles. in different units in 7 missile regiments (6 with 6 missiles each and one with 10 missiles) of two missile divisions based in Dombarovsky near Yasny in the Orenburg Region of Russia and Uzhur in the Uzhur District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
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The current failure calls combat duty into question. Meanwhile, it became known that Russia did not carry out scheduled tests of ballistic missiles "Yars" and "Bulava". At the same time, the USA conducted a successful launch of its "Minuteman 3" ballistic missile.
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WHERE DOES THE NAME COME FROM?
The Sarmatians were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD. They began to migrate westward around the fourth and third centuries BC AD About a century before the new era, these tribes ruled territory from the Vistula River to the mouth of the Danube and east to the Volga, as well as the shores of the Black and Caspian Seas, as well as the Caucasus in the south.
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SARMAT DATA
Sarmatian“ is a three-stage liquid-propellant rocket with a range of up to 18,000 km and a launch mass of 208.1 tons. The rocket is 35.3 meters long and 3 meters in diameter. It carries 168 tons of fuel and up to 10 tons of payload - respectively, either 10 nuclear warheads of 750 kilotons or 16 lighter nuclear warheads or 3 "Avangard" hypersonic drones. (under development) and a combination of anti-missile defense systems.
Due to the long range of the flight, it can attack from different directions, not just from the north across the Arctic.
The circular deviation from the target is 500 meters (on the American Minuteman III it is 200 meters).
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Satana II is available in modified silos 15P718M and new 12C. It is believed that they will allow a launch within half a minute of the command “start” instead of the current 15 minutes. Silo 12C has been expanded from approximately 228 acres to 427 acres and the other 17C has been expanded from approximately 82 acres to 136 acres.