 follows apparent delays in Vladimir Putin 's 'unstoppable' 15,880mph hypersonic big beast, known in Moscow as Sarmat. "The flight-design tests of the Sarmat [ICBM] may continue before the end of this year with a second test launch to be potentially carried out,' a defence ministry official told state news agency TASS. The disclosure that it 'may' conduct a second test follows earlier boasts that Satan-2 - as the West calls it, which is the size of a 14-storey tower block - would be fully deployed by the end of the year. The new less-than-definitive statement will add to suspicions that the hypersonic Armageddon missile is experiencing embarrassing delays. Tunnel found under Egyptian city may lead way to Cleopatra's missing tomb A Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile from April 2022, Russia says over 50 of the new 'Satan 2' ICBMs are in production ( TV Zvezda/east2west news) Its first test was announced to great fanfare as soon as it took place on April 20, with Putin in touch by video link. The silo-based Satan-2 launch was from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. In May, former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, seen as a close Putin ally, said almost 50 Satan-2 missiles, which were in 'mass production', would soon be on combat duty. In early June, a major ICBM test was scheduled and locals near the Kura test range were warned to stay clear of the target site in remote Kamchatka. But this test never happened. Russia takes its hypersonic Satan-2 [Sarmat] missile into a forest ahead of 'new tests' with deployment due by the end of the year amid acute tension with the West ( Rogozin /east2west news)){kind=link}
In May former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said almost 50 Satan-2 missiles were in “mass production” and would soon be on combat duty
Russia warned that a second test of its huge new Satan-2 intercontinental ballistic missile may come before the end of December.
The announcement today (Tuesday November 11) follows apparent delays in Vladimir Putin ‘s “unstoppable” 15,880mph hypersonic big beast, known in Moscow as Sarmat.
“The flight-design tests of the Sarmat [ICBM] may continue before the end of this year with a second test launch to be potentially carried out,” a defence ministry official told state news agency TASS.
The disclosure that it “may” conduct a second test follows earlier boasts that Satan-2 – as the West calls it, which is the size of a 14-storey tower block – would be fully deployed by the end of the year.