The first test launch of the newest Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBD) “Sarmat” will be held in the fall of the current year. The start time of this ICBR called the TASS source in the defense and industrial complex.
“The first launch of” Sarmat “in the framework of the LCA (flight-design tests – approx.” Tape.ru “), presumably, will take place in autumn, the second – at the end of 2021,” the interlocutor said.
In November 2020, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (Raran) on Information Policy, Dr. Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov wrote in the “military-industrial courier” that Russia can destroy the United States from her means, in particular, torpedoes with the nuclear power plant “Poseidon” and heavy ICBM “Sarmat”.
To date, only shifted tests of this rocket were carried out.
According to the commander of the Rocket forces of the Strategic Appointment (RVSN), Colonel-General Sergey Karakayev, the Sarmatian combat duty will be delivered in 2022.