AGI The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that Sarmat’s new ICBM has been successfully tested. “The objectives of the launch texts have been fully met and the expected performance specifications have been confirmed at all stages of the flight,” the ministry said in a statement. The rocket was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodromein the Arkhangelsk region at 15:12 Moscow time, and the warheads arrived at the planned place in the Kura impact area, Kamchatka.
“The launch was the first of a planned series,” the ministry explains, “on completion of the program, the Sarmat missile system will enter service with the Strategic Missile Forces.”
The new rocket “has no equal in the world and will not have it for a long time” e “will make people think” threatening Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a congratulatory message to the defense on the success of the first test. “This truly unique weapon will increase the combat potential of our armed forces, reliably guarantee Russia’s security from external threats and frighten those who, in the heat of frenzied and aggressive rhetoric, try to threaten our country,” said the Russian president.
Putin pointed this out Sarmats are assembled using only Russianmade components. “Of course, this will simplify the mass production of the complex by defense industry companies and speed up its transfer to the arsenal of strategic missile forces,” said the Russian president.
The new missile, Putin added, “has the highest tactical and technical qualities and is capable of evading any missile defense system”.
The Pentagon “does not view the test as a threat to the US or its allies.” According to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, Moscow “reasonably” warned Washington about the test, which “was not a surprise” and is considered “routine.”