Russia's New ICBM Sarmat Can Penetrate Defense Shield, Wipe Out Texas

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Russia's New ICBM Sarmat Can Penetrate Defense Shield, Wipe Out Texas
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12:24 08.05.2016(updated 12:37 08.05.2016) Get short URL

The best current missile defenses system may prove powerless against Sarmat, Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missile, which will be ready for field trials this summer, according to the Russian news network Zvezda.

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Russia's latest intercontinental ballistic missile, Sarmat, may render all current missile defense systems obsolescent, the Russian news network Zvezda reported.

The RS-28 Sarmat is the state-of-the-art heavy liquid-propelled intercontinental ballistic missile which is currently being developed for the Russian army.

It is designed to replace the old Soviet R-36M missiles Voevoda, codenamed 'Satan' by NATO, as the heavy silo-based component of Russia's nuclear deterrence. The RS-28 has been in development since 2009 and is scheduled to start replacing the old ICBMs in 2018.

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Launching an RS-20 Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) intercontinental ballistic missile (File)

"In this sense, the Sarmat missile will not only become the R-36M's successor, but also to some extent it will determine in which direction nuclear deterrence in the world will develop," Zvezda said.

The broadcaster added that the RS-28 is capable of wiping out parts of the earth the size of Texas or France, and that its higher speed performance will enable it to speed past every missile defense system in existence.

Although there is very little information on the technical characteristics of the new missile, some sources said that the Sarmat is a two-stage missile with an estimated operational range of 10,000km and a mass of at least 100 tons, including a payload weighing from 4 tons up to 10 tons.

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The missile will be equipped with a MIRVed combination of a dozen heavy warheads, each individually steerable during reentry. MIRV is an acronym for a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.

Sarmat warheads will have an array of advanced antimissile countermeasures meant to penetrate the US ABM shield. Speculation is rife that they would have a conventional hypersonic version like the US's Advanced Hypersonic Weapon or the Chinese WU-14 and could be used as a precision intercontinental weapon in a non-nuclear conflict.

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to put the Sarmat into service in late 2018 and complete replacing the Voevoda with the RS-28 by 2020.



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[Mrc]

Interesting

 

[jammersat]

i'm sure it can only "penetrate" by adding to the number of warheads it can carry

 

[Freyja]

Quality hyperbole from Sputnik as per usual.

Russia's new missile can penetrate defense shields? So can America's 40 year old Trident D5.

One Trident can carry up to 14 reentry bodies plus decoys.

And its 50 year old Minuteman III.

 

[jammersat]

Quantity is Quality - old slavic proverb

 

[Penguin]

Note the use of the word MAY (which means is may or it may not)
Note also, whereas the ICBM MAY may render all current missile defense systems obsolescent, the S-400 is and invincible shield. That's fairly inconsistent from one line to the next.....

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I don't think the missile shield was ever designed to defend against Russian missiles.

 

[FlyCheatter]

I don't think the missile shield was ever designed to defend against Russian missiles.

...it was only designed to "to defend against Russian missiles" ..

 

[Hudhafah Ayser]

...it was only designed to "to defend against Russian missiles" ..

Yep but it success at less defend against 59 Yrs old scud missile .
Anyways I thinks all ICBM focus on increase traveling speed mission to decrees defiance systems engage time .

 

[Skaði]

Yep but it success at less defend against 59 Yrs old scud missile .

The US has developed several tiers of ABMs for different classes of missile.

At the bottom is PAC-3 (and to an extent HAWK and PAC-2) for short ranged missiles like Scud or its varients

Moving up we have THAAD for IRBMs like DF-21

And SM-6 for similar classes, albeit at closer ranges.

SM-3 for exo-atmospheric interceptions of DF-21 class targets and ASAT. It has a limited counter-ICBM capability

And its land-based component Aegis Ashore as a defensive shield against Russian, Iranian and other regional missile threats

And at the highest tip of the defensive pike, GBI for exo-atmospheric, extreme long-ranged ICBM interception

The low tiers are designed with short ranged missiles like Scud and medium to Intermediate ranged missiles like the North Korean Musudan in mind

But GBI exists only to down ICBMs and trains against a variant of the Poseidon SLBM called LV-2

 

[damm1t]

Go Sputnik... Viva le propagandaa!