Russia intends to put about 50 new Sarmat-type ICBMs into service by the end of autumn. The rockets (NATO codename: SS-X-30 Satan 2) are to be manufactured in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, as the head of the Roskosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, announced today to the Interfax agency.
In late April, Russia conducted a test launch of the ICBM at the Plessetzk spaceport in northern Russia. The Sarmat has a range of 18,000 kilometers and can be equipped with nuclear warheads. This allows Russia to attack both the North Pole and the South Pole and reach targets across the world. The first units will be stationed in the Greater Krasnoyarsk district of Siberia.
In the context of the war against Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin used the rocket launch in April to threaten the West. The weapon can overcome all forms of missile defense and “it makes people think twice who, in the fervor of hardened and aggressive rhetoric, try to threaten our country,” he said.