Unsuccessful tests of Yars and Bulava missiles, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, took place on October 25. The situation was repeated on November 1 with the Yars ICBM.
Russia conducted an unsuccessful test of the RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile on November 1 Yars, which is the core of its land-based strategic nuclear forces. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on November 4.
It was noted that the launch was made from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region to a target at the Kura training ground in Kamchatka.
Rocket Yars lost its course, as in the previous command and staff exercises of the strategic nuclear forces of the aggressor state of Russia on October 25, 2023. The test launch of the RSM-56 ballistic missile from the submarine missile cruiser Borey also ended without successful on October 25 Macewhich once again shows its unreliability,” the Main Intelligence Directorate stressed.
Intelligence officials added that the Russian Federation also has a serious problem with the heavy RS-28 ICBM Sarmat based on the silo, which is one of the main projects in the process of modernization of the country’s strategic nuclear forces announced by Moscow.
As you know, a rocket Sarmat They began to create it in 2009 and, according to the Kremlin’s plans, it should have entered service five years ago, but the date is constantly postponed. In the end, it happened in September 2023 – after the first and only full test.
“Compared to the RS-20 ICBM produced in Ukraine Voivodethe rocket created to replace it Sarmat without any advantages in design, warhead or means of overcoming missile defense. Actually Sarmat “an unfinished, imperfect, crude rocket,” the Main Intelligence Directorate emphasized.
In addition, Russia’s efforts to improve the air component of its strategic nuclear forces remain unresolved. As part of the partial modernization of the Soviet Tu-160 and Tu-95S bombers, the Russians are able to build 1-2 aircraft annually.
“All the listed problems of the strategic nuclear forces of the aggressor state of the Russian Federation are a direct consequence of the civilized world’s sanctions policy against Moscow,” the message said.
Let’s recall that on September 1, Russia announced that it had deployed and put into combat duty a missile system Sarmatwhich Russian President Vladimir Putin used to terrorize the world in 2018.
Source: korrespondent
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