New Russian heavy ICBM - Sarmatian

MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. Russia’s Strategic Missile Force successfully conducted flight tests of the advanced RS-28 Sarmat silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Strategic Missile Force Commander Colonel-General Sergey Karakayev said at an enlarged meeting of its Military Council on Friday.

"The Strategic Missile Force continues its rearmament for advanced missile systems. The flight tests of the Sarmat missile system have been successfully carried out. The Yars road-mobile missile system has also proven its capabilities by launches at the Plesetsk state testing spaceport," the Defense Ministry quoted the commander as saying.

The Russian Strategic Missile Force has assimilated new methods of maneuverable operations by missile regiments. In the 2022 training year, the Strategic Missile Force has conducted more than 550 marches, with over 50% of them at night, he said.

The level of troop preparedness has increased this year. The Omsk missile formation has been recognized as the best in the Russian Strategic Missile Force in the 2022 training year. The Yoshkar-Ola missile force has achieved the best results among road-mobile missile formations. The Uzhur missile unit has demonstrated the best results among formations armed with stationary missile systems, he said.

The RS-28 Sarmat is a Russian state-of-the art silo-based missile system armed with a heavy liquid-propellant orbital intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear charges. The missile has been in the process of its development at the Makeyev State Rocket Center (the town of Miass in the Chelyabinsk Region) since the 2000s to replace the R-36M2 Voyevoda ICBM operational in the Russian Strategic Missile Force since 1988.

The Sarmat ICBM was first test-launched from the Plesetsk spaceport on April 20. The advanced ICBM proved its designed characteristics at all the stages of its flight.

Based on experts’ estimates, the RS-28 Sarmat is capable of delivering a MIRVed warhead weighing up to 10 tons to any location worldwide both over the North and South Poles.

Sarmat also suggested as a basis of planetary defense (counter-asteroid), due to its high energy, throwweight and readiness. Some preliminary design works on hit-to-kill/"strike" interceptor capable of destroying small-size (10 to 100 meters) space objects. wrote:

kvs wrote:Compare the development, specifically testing, time frame of the Sarmat with the Bulava. All the failures with the Bulava support
the theory that it was American disruption at the production plant for the prototypes. The Bulava stopped failing as soon as the
American disarmament contingent located in the vicinity of the plant was booted out...

kvs wrote:...Russia needs to sabotage US supply lines from its colonies. Starve the maggots out.

If they want payback they should get nextdoor to American development site and sabotage one of their projects​

Russia’s first new silo-based Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) will be deployed into service next year, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said at a meeting of Russia’s senior defense officials with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.

“Successful launches of the new heavy Sarmat missile system during state-run tests made it possible to begin work on its deployment,” Shoigu said.

In total, some 22 new strategic nuclear missile launchers, including the silo-based Sarmat, as well as the Avangard and Yars systems, are set to be deployed to the country’s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) next year, the minister revealed.

Putin said that efforts would continue to improve the country’s SMF, adding that “the share of modern types of weapons in [Russia’s] strategic nuclear forces has exceeded 91% this year.”

We will continue to maintain and improve the combat-readiness of our nuclear triad. This is the main guarantee for preserving our sovereignty and territorial integrity, strategic parity, and the general balance of power in the world,” he stated.

The liquid-fueled heavy ICBM was first successfully test-launched back in April. The new system is ultimately set to replace the aging silo-based R-36M2 Voevoda missiles, the backbone of Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrence.

Speaking with Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), the official newspaper of the Russian military, the head of Russia’s SMF, General Sergey Karakaev, said the new missile boasts vastly larger capabilities than its predecessor.

“The missile system Sarmat has a wide range of capabilities for deploying various types of combat payloads and is based on principles that assure guaranteed penetration of any anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, both now and in the future,” Karakaev told the newspaper last week.

GarryB:

This isn't that companies first liquid fuelled heavy ICBM

GarryB:

Bulava was made by a company that had not made SLBMs before and it was solid fuelled which, apart from the SS-N-20 from the Akula class was a new idea for them

kvs wrote:The Bulava was the SLBM variant of the Topol-M. It was much shorter with two stages, but the solid rocket fuel was the same
as far as I can tell. It was not built by some liquid fuel newbie company that never built solid rocket fuel missiles before. There
is no analogy to the Soviet N-1 moon rocket fiasco. The Bulava was in its testing phase for an absurdly long time. This does not
make any sense if it was a design problem. You can't fix a broken design with testing. You have to start from scratch. So the
testing was showing technical failures that did not justify a restart of the project. There is no sunk cost fallacy involved.

GarryB:

Going from SLBMs to ICBMs is less challenging that going the other way.

Big_Gazza:

I think its fair to say that Russia possessed the complete design information of the R-36. It may have been designed/manufactured by Yuzhnoye/Yuzmash but it was a Soviet project, not Ukrainian, and used Energomash engines. Russia has been maintaining its R-36s and converting them into Dnepr launchers long enough to have a complete mastery of the type. Sarmat is a modernised and Russified R-36 built with 21st century CAD/CAM manufacturing, modern avionics, and updated engines. It should be considered an evolutionary variant. The main differences will be mechanical and structural, and these can be validated on the ground.

The test launch of the Russian 208-ton supersonic missile "Sarmat-2" will take place in the coming days. This was reported to the foreign press by their own sources.

They argue that the launch of a missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads could coincide with the day the JMD began in Ukraine. Presumably, Sarmat will be launched from February 15 to February 25 from the Kura training ground in Kamchatka.