Russia may test-fire Sarmat missile near Hawaii

Russia has started large-scale preparations for flight tests of the new “Sarmat” heavy intercontinental ballistic missile which is set to join the service by 2018. The former Chief of Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces, Viktor Esin, said that the missile will replace the most powerful RS-20V Voevoda (according to NATO classification — SS-18 Satan) ballistic complexes. (Read more)

Russia Plans to Release A New Nuclear Missile

Russia is planning on deploying a new type of long range missiles to replace the Cold War missile known as “Satan”. The Voyevoda, which NATO has dubbed the SS-18 Satan, was developed in the 70s and they are reaching the end of their service life. It is said that these missiles were “stuff in nightmares” for the United States during the stand off between the US and the Soviets.

Russia test-fires ICBM

Russia successfully test-fired a Topol RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

The missile, put into service in 1985 and referred to as a SS-25 Sickle by NATO, has a maximum range of 10,000 kilometers (6,125 miles) and can carry a nuclear warhead with a yield of up to 550 kilotons.

The Defense Ministry says it intends to retire most of its SS-18 Satan, SS-19 Stiletto and SS-25 Sickle ICBMs, and replace them with SS-27 Sickle-B (Topol-M) and RS-24 Yars missiles by 2021, RIA Novosti said.

Rusia construira el prototipo de un nuevo ICBM

 

En 2011, el ejército ruso anunció los planes para construir el misil. Se espera que el prototipo vea la luz en 2014 y que para 2018 remplace al ICBM Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) que ha estado en servicio desde 1967. El nuevo ICBM tendrá un peso de 100 toneladas al despegue y contará con ojivas de mayor potencia destructiva, incluyendo MIRVs con elementos de señuelo. Segun lo declarado por fuentes oficiales, el futuro nuevo misil combinado con el futuro nuevo sistema de adquisición de blancos para ICBMs que está actualmente en desarrollo, constituirán la combinación perfecta para atravesar las más sofisticadas defensas antimisiles.

 

 

Russian missile forces to hold 200 drills in next 6 months

 

Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces will conduct over 200 exercises in the next six months, the Defense Ministry said.

 

Russia’s SMF plans by 2016 to modernize its command-and-control systems in order to improve their ability to overcome missile defenses and increase the survivability of delivery vehicles. At present, six types of silo-based and mobile ICBM systems are on combat duty with the SMF, including the heavy Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan), capable of carrying 10 warheads, the Topol-M (Stalin) and RS-24 Yars systems.

 

On Thursday, SMF successfully tested a prototype of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is expected to replace Topol-M and Yars in the future. The missile was fired from a mobile launcher at the Kapustin Yar testing range in the Astrakhan region and hit its designated target at the Sary Shagan testing range in Kazakhstan.