This missile, the RS-28 Sarmat (NATO codename: SS-X-29 or SS-X-3, and already unofficially nicknamed “Satan-II”), is designed to be an apex engine of atomic annihilation in the event of a full ...

According to OSINT analysts of satellite imagery, Russia conducted an unsuccessful test of the Sarmat missile at the Plesetsk test site. The missile's liquid-fuel engine likely exploded as it was ...

While Rostec has conducted tests of pulse detonation engines in the last decade, their employment on the Sarmat is uncertain. If this was attempted, however, this would provide another explanation for ...

He called the russians' decision to use a liquid-fueled engine for the Sarmat missile "very strange," because during the Soviet Union, engineers located in the territory of modern-day Ukraine were ...

Russia had at one point said the Sarmat would be ready by 2018, replacing the Soviet-era SS-18, but the date for deployment has been repeatedly pushed back. Putin said in October 2023 that Russia ...

Satellite photos showing a 200-foot-wide crater at a launch site indicate that the Sarmat missile, said by the Kremlin to travel at five times the speed of sound, might not be ready for duty.

According to satellite photos, a Russian Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile probably detonated during a test earlier this month, raising questions about Russia’s military capabilities and ...

LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Russia appears to have suffered a "catastrophic failure" in a test of its Sarmat missile, a key weapon in the modernisation of its nuclear arsenal, according to arms ...