In a new stone on the road to its nuclear rhetoric, Vladimir Putin’s Russia on Wednesday test-fired its latest, the RS-28 Sarmat. For an autocrat, the engine will be “better» intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). It is also the most terrifying if we dwell on its combat name, Satan 2, or its dimensions: 35 meters long, 3 meters in diameter, 200 tons at launch, one ton payload. The missile can carry 10 to 15 nuclear warheads and decoys.
Vladimir Putin unveiled it to the world in a 2018 riverside speech, among other weapons designed to modernize Russia’s military arsenal in the face of looming American expansionism. The President of Russia seems to have prophesied.deterioration of the global security environment“, researchers from the IISS think tank noted in a note in July last year, referring to the future contribution of Sarmat.
The test shot was carried out from Plesetsk in the north of Moscow…
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Source: Le Figaro
