Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN): Discussion & News

Do you have any source that missile fired at March was Sarmat and launch was failure? Sources that I've seen was in MSM trying to downplay russians success in several fronts of the war. Every time when russians are advancing, Putin have a cancer, missiles are running out, ammunition is low and casualties are enormous. If I hear or see credible evidence from Russia, not from "unnamed" sources from pentagram, I can take these claims seriously.

You obviously don't understand, that such missile tests are scheduled months prior and quite a lot preparations must be done  starting from manufacturing a very complex missile. Second launch , confirmed to be Sarmat, happened a couple a weeks ago and was successful. Why would they risk to build second missile ready, if results of the first test is not known and failure mechanism is not studied and things re-engineered and fixed? Please, enlighten me?

The Bologovskaya Missile Division will complete re-equipment with new missile systems this year. This was stated by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Sergei Karakaev at a meeting of the military council of the Strategic Missile Forces, where the results of the winter period of training were summed up.

“Re-equipment of the Bologovsky missile formation (Tver region) will be completed before the end of the year,” he stressed.

Karakaev added that the Kozelskaya, Yasnenskaya and Uzhurskaya missile divisions are also being re-equipped with new equipment. The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces noted that in the first half of the year, the Strategic Missile Forces conducted more than 200 tactical training events.

Earlier it was reported that the re-equipment of the Bologovskaya division with the Yars mobile ground missile system has been underway since 2016.

PC-24 "Yars" is a Russian strategic missile system with a mobile and silo-based solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile with a multiple reentry vehicle.

"Yars" can be placed on mobile mobile launchers or in well-protected underground mines. The missiles are equipped with multi-unit maneuvering nuclear warheads.

Each block has its own guidance system and can overcome any missile defense system. Mobile complexes can move along dirt roads. The launch weight of the rocket is 50 tons.

https://tvzvezda-ru.translate.goog/news/20235191117-CO8hV.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui&_x_tr_hist=true

NOTE:
- Bologovskaya is the last unit converting to the mobile Yars ICBM
- Kozelskaya is converting to silo based Yars ICBM
- Yasnenskaya is converting to Avangard system
- Uzhurskaya is starting to convert to the Sarmat ICBM

IIRC all the mobile ICBMs were supposed to complete upgrade to Yars this year. So this is confirmation of that.
From what I get the Topol-M was replaced with Yars and the Topol was replaced with Yars-S.
Yars and Yars-S are basically modernized MIRVed versions of those missiles.

It will take longer to finish conversion of the silo based Topol-M launchers to Yars.

As for Sarmat, while the first stage seems to work just fine, they seem to be having trouble with the last stage of the launcher. So I doubt it will enter service any time soon. It is quite likely there will be issues. It is supposed to replace the R-36 which used to be made in Ukraine. Makeyev still retains experience in the liquid SLBMs however. So I guess it is just a matter of scaling them up. The R-36 first stage engines were always designed in Russia by Energomash I think. But design of the second stage engine and all engine production used to be in Ukraine.