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Sarmat heavy ICBM expected to be ready in 2018-2020

Russia expects that the new "heavy" ICBM will be ready for deployment in 2018-2020, according to Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces. This is the liquid-fuel ICBM that Russia is developing to deploy in silos. The 2018-2020 timeline is generally consistent with the previous estimates. The news in this announcement is that Karakayev officially confirmed the name of the program - Sarmat.

[Rocket Forces] [December 17, 2013] []

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Pavel, Is there any information about the configuration of Sarmat?

[Parimal Debnath ] [December 17, 2013] [#]

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.

[Jon Grams ] [December 19, 2013] [#]

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.

[mrg63] [December 27, 2013] [#]

"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?

[Pavel Podvig ] [December 27, 2013] [#]

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