A Sarmat ICBM missile exploded during a test in Plesetsk, Russia, the OSINT project MeNMyRC has reported, publishing satellite images (ICBM stands for intercontinental ballistic missile – ed.) Source: ...

OSINT analyst George Barros has released new satellite imagery from space technology company Maxar that shows a failed test of the Sarmat super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the ...

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 ...

Tests of Sarmat components between 2017 and 2021 reportedly went smoothly, as did its first test launch in April 2022; this lone test was apparently sufficient for Moscow to issue a contract for ...

This is at least the fourth failed test of the Sarmat missile. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the only successful launch took place on April 20, 2022, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

The Sarmat-Satan-2 complex is due to replace the Voevoda - or Satan - missile which has been in service since the 1980s. R-36M2 Voevoda missile was tested no less than 17 times in the Cold War ...

The Sarmat, or Satan II, missile is a behemoth nuclear weapon capable of carrying up to 15 warheads across the globe. The weapon can also carry up to 24 Russian Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles ...

Russia is said to have re-equipped its land-based strategic missile forces with mobile Yars ICBMs and recently began deploying the heavy, silo-based Sarmat ICBMs — labelled “Satan II ...

The Sarmat is a new heavy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile which Russia is expected to deploy with 10 or more warheads on each missile, according to the U.S. Congressional Research Service.

Vladimir Putin has claimed new Sarmat nuclear missiles which have been dubbed Satan II and which are capable of hitting targets in the UK are almost ready to be deployed. The Russia President also ...

The RS-28 Sarmat is 116 feet long, weighs 220 tons, and can reportedly carry up to 15 light nuclear warheads. With a range of 11,000 miles, the weapon is capable of striking targets in the United ...