Source: two test launches of Sarmat ICBMs are planned to be completed by the end of 2021

MOSCOW (TASS): Two test launches of the newest liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Sarmat are planned to be completed by the end of 2021, the first of them in November. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

“Within the framework of flight design tests (LKI), it is planned to carry out two launches of Sarmat ICBMs from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2021, the first in November,” he said.

According to him, in 2022, LKI missiles will continue, then state tests will be carried out so that by the end of the year the first regiment with missiles of this type will take up combat duty as part of the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces).

TASS has no official confirmation of this information.

In June, the general director of the Krasmash plant, Alexander Gavrilov, told TASS that the LKI missiles are scheduled for the third quarter of 2021. In August, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that flight tests of the Sarmat would begin this year and should be completed in 2022, after which the missile will enter service with the Strategic Missile Forces.

The Sarmat ICBM was developed at the V.P. Makeyev State Missile Center, the main specialization of which is the development of sea-based ICBMs. According to experts, the RS-28 “Sarmat” ICBM is capable of delivering a multiple warhead weighing up to 10 tons anywhere in the world, both through the North and South Poles.