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It's difficult to keep track of all kind of new ICBMs that Russia is planning to deploy - in addition to the Topol-M/RS-24 Yars deployment that is underway, Russia plans to introduce a new road mobile missile, RS-26, in 2015...
Speaking at a press-conference in Moscow, Gen-Col. (ret.) Yesin said that the Strategic Rocket Forces expect the new heavy ICBM, Sarmat, to be ready for deployment in 2020. This is a small correction to the previously announced time range of...
The commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Sergey Karakayev, confirmed today that the new Sarmat missile will be deployed "with the Uzhur missile division and in the Dombarovskiy deployment area (позиционный район)." This is not exactly the news - t...
Speaking at the award ceremony for the designers of Burevestnik and Poseidon, the Russian president mentioned another strategic system, Sarmat: This year, we will put the Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile system through combat trials, and...
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Pavel, Is there any information about the configuration of Sarmat?
I'm not sure why they keep calling this an R-36M2 replacement when at a size of 100 tonnes, it is clearly a UR-100NUTTH replacement. 100 tonnes is only half the size of the R-36M2. The throw-weight should be about half as well.
The 100 tonnes number is wrong. But it was claimed by Yesin, an ex-commander of rocket forces, so people keep repeating it. More reliable sources later confirmed that it will be a much heavier missile.
"Heavy missile" was defined as anything heavier than UR-100NUTTH back in the 1970s. This is where 100 tonnes and the "heavy" terminology come from. Anyway, I don't think it matters at all if it's going to be a 105 tonnes or 180 tonnes missile. Who cares?