Move Over Satan, Here Comes Putin’s RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile to be operational in 2018

October 21, 2016 Comments Off on Move Over Satan, Here Comes Putin’s RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile to be operational in 2018 1,255 Views

The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new multi-warhead, super-heavy missile designed to defeat anti-missile systems will replace the RS-36, a family of ICBMs and space launch vehicles that entered service in the 1970s and 1980s, Sputnik news reported.

“Most concerning to foreign defense observers is the prospect of the Sarmat being armed with Project 4202, a hypersonic glider which, after separating from its ICBM launch vehicle, will be able to accelerate to speeds between Mach 7 and Mach 12, acting like a hypersonic cruise missile, and capable of maneuvering to overcome any existing or prospective missile defense to reach its target,” Sputnik quoted a Russian Defense Ministry Official.

The missile will carry up to 10 heavy warheads, or 16 lighter ones, or a combination of warheads and countermeasures meant at overwhelming enemy missile defenses.
Russia’s Voyevoda (NATO codename SS-18 Satan), an upgraded variant of the R-36, is now the most powerful missile of its class. “Among the land, sea and air-based weapons on both sides of the Atlantic, there is nothing even close to reaching its combat capabilities.”





The new Russian-made RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile to be operational in 2018