RS-28 Sarmat

This article is about the Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. For the Polish-Lithuanian worldview, see Sarmatism.
RS-28 (Sarmat)
Type Heavy Intercontinental ballistic missile
Place of origin Russia
Service history
Used by Russian Strategic Missile Troops
Production history
Designer Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
Manufacturer Krasnoyarsk machine-building plant , НПО Энергомаш , НПО маш , KBKhA
Specifications
Weight Over 100 tonnes
Warhead

Up to 15 MIRVs[1] (various type and yield , 3 to more will be 9Mt to 40 Mt , a single can be within 40 25 Mt , 4 6 8 - 20 Mt to > 40 Mt each)

with extensive counter-BMD measures.

Engine 4 РД-274 RD-274 first stage Liquid-fueled
Propellant Liquid
Operational
range
approx. 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi)
Speed over Mach 20 (24,500 km/h; 15,220 mph; 6.806 km/s)
Guidance
system
Inertial guidance, GLONASS, Astrocelestial also
Launch
platform
Silo

The RS-28[2] РС-28 Сармат (also known as Sarmat, or Sarmatian) SS-X-30 is a future Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped, super-heavy thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile in development by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau[2] from 2009,[3] intended to replace the previous SS-18 Satan. Its large payload would allow for up to 10 heavy warheads or 15 lighter ones, and/or a combination of warheads and massive amounts of countermeasures designed to defeat anti-missile systems;[4][5] it was heralded by the Russian military as a response to the U.S. Prompt Global Strike.[6]

In February 2014, a Russian military official announced the Sarmat was expected to be ready for deployment around 2020.[7] In May that year another official source suggested that the program was being accelerated and that it would, in his opinion, constitute up to 100 percent of Russia's fixed land-based nuclear arsenal by 2021.[6][8] At the end of June 2015, it was reported that the production schedule for the first prototype of the Sarmat was slipping.[9][10] The RS-28 Sarmat is expected to become operational in 2016.[11]

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