Projects "Sarmat" and "Avangard". Future plans
At present, in the interests of the Russian strategic rocket forces, several new complexes of various kinds are being developed, including those using fundamentally new components and products. The command of the Strategic Missile Forces is trying to regularly publish this or that information on the progress of promising projects, and new messages of this kind appeared only a few days ago. The leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the command of the Strategic Missile Forces announced relevant plans for the Sarmat and Avangard missile systems.
December 17, on the Day of the Strategic Missile Forces, the newspaper of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda" published a new interview with the commander of this branch of troops, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev. In the interview, all major topics were raised in the context of the service and the further development of the Strategic Missile Forces. One of the main topics was a promising material part, which is being put into service or still under development. The greatest interest in this are the information about current and expected work on the projects of new missile systems.
First of all, in an interview they recalled a promising missile system with an intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat". The commander in chief of the Strategic Missile Forces recalled that the Russian defense industry is continuing to work on this project. Not so long ago, the missile missile tests were completed, during which it was possible to work out the technology of preparing the product for launch, and also confirmed the correctness of the design decisions associated with the launcher and the launch of the rocket. In addition, the Sarmat propulsion system was tested.
According to S. Karakaev, active work is continuing on the construction of new facilities at the Plesetsk cosmodrome. This infrastructure will be used in the near future for flight tests of the Sarmat rocket. The launch of test flights is scheduled for the near future. Successful test flights will allow to start mass production of various components of a promising missile system.
The commander-in-chief of the Strategic Missile Forces confirmed the previously voiced information on the timing of the Sarmat complex’s entry into service. Rearmament of missile forces and the development of new material parts will begin in 2021 year. First new weapon will receive the 62 th missile Uzhur Red Banner Division named after the USSR 60 anniversary, serving in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Now this compound uses relatively old “Voivod” missiles.
The second most important novelty for strategic missile forces is the Avangard missile system, which differs from other weapons in the use of a planning hypersonic combat unit. This development was also mentioned in an interview for Red Star.
Colonel-General S. Karakayev said that the Avangard project had entered a new phase. The NPO Mashinostroenia has already begun to manufacture serial samples of the new missile complex. The first samples of the technology will be put on alert in the next year. They will receive the 13-I missile Orenburg Red Banner Division, stationed in the village. Dombarovsky. The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces noted that the complexity of such weapons will not be an obstacle to the successful start of combat duty.
S. Karakaev reminded about the main features and advantages of the Avangard product. The missile system of this type is equipped with a hypersonic planning winged combat unit and is capable of showing unique combat characteristics. However, the general did not name the exact values of the basic parameters. However, he pointed out that the entry of Avangard into service would significantly increase the potential of the Strategic Missile Forces grouping. First of all, a new weapon will simplify the breakthrough of the enemy's missile defense and the destruction of pinpoint objects of high importance.
From an interview with the Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces for Krasnaya Zvezda, it follows that new types of strategic armaments are being created in the light of current threats and challenges. They are given special opportunities designed to ensure the solution of the tasks even in the most difficult conditions. The main challenge is the development of foreign missile defense systems, designed to reduce the potential of Russian strategic nuclear forces.
S. Karakaev spoke about the development of a number of military-technical measures to ensure a certain reduction in the effectiveness of foreign missile defense. The consequence of this is the ability to effectively perform a combat mission and strike at enemy targets. The measures taken are primarily related to the creation of new missile systems with the necessary equipment.
The complexes receive modern means of overcoming missile defense and advanced combat equipment, which has a positive effect on their survivability. Also in the plans of the command there is a further development of the so-called. variation of trajectory-ballistic capabilities of new intercontinental missiles. Work will continue on improving the means of functional and fire destruction of various elements of the enemy's missile defense system. Information and intelligence, control and attack systems of a potential enemy will be at risk.
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New data on promising weapons and equipment for strategic missile forces was soon confirmed. Already December 19 "Red Star" has published an interview with the Deputy Minister of Defense Alexei Krivoruchko, who is in charge of organizing the military-technical support of the armed forces. The topic of the interview was the delivery of the material part in the outgoing year and plans for the next 2019. Among other things, they recalled new developments for strategic missile forces.
A. Krivoruchko spoke about the events of 2018 of the year in the context of the rearmament of strategic nuclear forces. This year, the focus was on all their components, including the Strategic Missile Forces, and it was about the development, testing and preparation for the production of completely new samples. Thus, the Deputy Minister of Defense recalled the recent throwing tests of the Sarmat rocket.
In the next year, the development of strategic nuclear forces will continue, and promising models will be put into service. One of the new products will be the Avangard strategic missile system, which includes a missile with a planning hypersonic warhead. According to A. Krivoruchko, in 2019, the first regiment re-armed with such systems will take over combat duty.
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The latest reports of officials from the Ministry of Defense once again confirm the already known data on the planned rearmament of the Russian strategic missile forces. Over the past few months, the military and the media have repeatedly raised the topic of new missile systems and published various data. As has now become clear, some of these messages, received from unnamed sources, corresponded to reality.
For example, the deadline for the completion of all necessary work on the Sarmat missile system became known in late October. Then TASS, citing a source in the military-industrial complex, wrote that the flight tests of the new missile would end in 2021. At the same time, the industry will launch the mass production of such products and transfer them to the missile forces for the purpose of putting on duty.
According to TASS, the first missiles of the new model will have to go to the 62-th Red Banner Division in the village. Solar. First, one of the regiments of this division will have to master the operation of two launchers with new type missiles. In the future, the number of installations on duty will increase threefold and reach the regular number. After the rearmament of the 62-th missile division, the development of the promising Sarmat complex in other units will begin, but no data has yet been received.
A few days ago, information about the start of combat duty of new missiles in 2021 and the supply of such weapons to the Uzhur missile division received confirmation at the highest level. This information was revealed personally by the commander-in-chief of the Strategic Missile Forces.
It is noteworthy that recent reports on the progress of work on the Avangard project were most often announced by officials, but not by the press, referring to unnamed sources. Since the spring of this year, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the country regularly raised the topic of new weapons and published interesting data.
The existence of a missile system project with special combat equipment in the form of a planning hypersonic combat unit was first officially announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his appeal to the Federal Assembly on March 1. On the same day, Colonel-General S. Karakayev supplemented the presidential statements and said that the new complex had already been tested. In the future, various other information about the progress of the project appeared, and at the beginning of June V. Putin indicated the expected deadlines for adopting Avangard. The new complex will go into service in the next 2019 year.
The last interviews of S. Karakaev and A. Krivoruchko show: the work on the Avangard theme has been completed with the desired results, and the new missile system for the Strategic Missile Forces will be able to enter service in the previously announced time frame. Recently it became known that Avangard products have already been delivered to the series, and this makes it possible to expect an early transfer of serial equipment to strategic rocket forces. The processes of putting on duty and mastering a new material part should not take much time.
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According to known data, the development of new weapons for strategic missile forces began in the distant past. So, the first works on the subject of intercontinental ballistic missiles with hypersonic planning blocks belong to the end of the eighties. In the middle of the two thousandth, officials spoke of the existence of promising projects of this kind. Designing the Sarmat product began no earlier than the end of the last decade, and with 2016, various rocket units are being tested.
ICBM type "Sarmat" is a means of delivery of combat equipment of various types. A three-stage heavy-class rocket is capable of carrying, according to various sources, at least 10 individual-targeting warheads. The range of delivery of warheads is indicated as “global”: the ability to use the most convenient and successful trajectories, including those with an increased length, has been obtained. The heavy "Sarmat" is intended to replace the missiles of its class, which are already in service, which are no longer fully compliant with the requirements and produce their own resources.
In the basic configuration, “Sarmat”, apparently, is a “classical” intercontinental ballistic missile. One of the other existing ICBMs in the near future will be able to get other opportunities. They are planned to be provided with the help of the Avangard combat unit. In this case, the rocket must solve the problem of the initial acceleration of such a combat unit with its conclusion to the desired trajectory. Hypersonic combat equipment of the new type significantly improves the characteristics of the missile complex and expands its capabilities.
The Avangard product is a hypersonic glider built with extensive use of composite materials. He is able to reach speeds of up to several kilometers per second and carry out active maneuvering along a trajectory. On board such a glider, probably, there is a special combat unit of unknown power. Due to its characteristic features, Avangard is able to move along an optimal trajectory, as well as to overcome existing and prospective missile defense systems.
One of the main prerequisites for the creation of new missile systems for the Strategic Missile Forces is the already completed and planned measures for the deployment of foreign missile defense systems in Eastern Europe and other regions. For this reason, in the new projects “Sarmat” and “Avangard” various solutions are used to effectively overcome the enemy's missile defense system. In the case of Avangard, such measures are already used at the level of the basic concept.
According to official data, the Avangard product will be the first of the most promising models for service. Serial production of such warheads has already begun, and next year they will be handed over to the troops. The Sarmat rocket will have to wait longer. The tests of this complex will end only in the 2021 year, and then his service will begin. The development of strategic missile forces continues, and the command is ready to report on successes.
On the materials of the sites:
http://redstar.ru/
http://mil.ru/
http://tass.ru/
http://rg.ru/
http://ria.ru/
December 17, on the Day of the Strategic Missile Forces, the newspaper of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda" published a new interview with the commander of this branch of troops, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev. In the interview, all major topics were raised in the context of the service and the further development of the Strategic Missile Forces. One of the main topics was a promising material part, which is being put into service or still under development. The greatest interest in this are the information about current and expected work on the projects of new missile systems.
First of all, in an interview they recalled a promising missile system with an intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat". The commander in chief of the Strategic Missile Forces recalled that the Russian defense industry is continuing to work on this project. Not so long ago, the missile missile tests were completed, during which it was possible to work out the technology of preparing the product for launch, and also confirmed the correctness of the design decisions associated with the launcher and the launch of the rocket. In addition, the Sarmat propulsion system was tested.
According to S. Karakaev, active work is continuing on the construction of new facilities at the Plesetsk cosmodrome. This infrastructure will be used in the near future for flight tests of the Sarmat rocket. The launch of test flights is scheduled for the near future. Successful test flights will allow to start mass production of various components of a promising missile system.
The commander-in-chief of the Strategic Missile Forces confirmed the previously voiced information on the timing of the Sarmat complex’s entry into service. Rearmament of missile forces and the development of new material parts will begin in 2021 year. First new weapon will receive the 62 th missile Uzhur Red Banner Division named after the USSR 60 anniversary, serving in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Now this compound uses relatively old “Voivod” missiles.
The second most important novelty for strategic missile forces is the Avangard missile system, which differs from other weapons in the use of a planning hypersonic combat unit. This development was also mentioned in an interview for Red Star.
Colonel-General S. Karakayev said that the Avangard project had entered a new phase. The NPO Mashinostroenia has already begun to manufacture serial samples of the new missile complex. The first samples of the technology will be put on alert in the next year. They will receive the 13-I missile Orenburg Red Banner Division, stationed in the village. Dombarovsky. The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces noted that the complexity of such weapons will not be an obstacle to the successful start of combat duty.
S. Karakaev reminded about the main features and advantages of the Avangard product. The missile system of this type is equipped with a hypersonic planning winged combat unit and is capable of showing unique combat characteristics. However, the general did not name the exact values of the basic parameters. However, he pointed out that the entry of Avangard into service would significantly increase the potential of the Strategic Missile Forces grouping. First of all, a new weapon will simplify the breakthrough of the enemy's missile defense and the destruction of pinpoint objects of high importance.
From an interview with the Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces for Krasnaya Zvezda, it follows that new types of strategic armaments are being created in the light of current threats and challenges. They are given special opportunities designed to ensure the solution of the tasks even in the most difficult conditions. The main challenge is the development of foreign missile defense systems, designed to reduce the potential of Russian strategic nuclear forces.
S. Karakaev spoke about the development of a number of military-technical measures to ensure a certain reduction in the effectiveness of foreign missile defense. The consequence of this is the ability to effectively perform a combat mission and strike at enemy targets. The measures taken are primarily related to the creation of new missile systems with the necessary equipment.
The complexes receive modern means of overcoming missile defense and advanced combat equipment, which has a positive effect on their survivability. Also in the plans of the command there is a further development of the so-called. variation of trajectory-ballistic capabilities of new intercontinental missiles. Work will continue on improving the means of functional and fire destruction of various elements of the enemy's missile defense system. Information and intelligence, control and attack systems of a potential enemy will be at risk.
***
New data on promising weapons and equipment for strategic missile forces was soon confirmed. Already December 19 "Red Star" has published an interview with the Deputy Minister of Defense Alexei Krivoruchko, who is in charge of organizing the military-technical support of the armed forces. The topic of the interview was the delivery of the material part in the outgoing year and plans for the next 2019. Among other things, they recalled new developments for strategic missile forces.
A. Krivoruchko spoke about the events of 2018 of the year in the context of the rearmament of strategic nuclear forces. This year, the focus was on all their components, including the Strategic Missile Forces, and it was about the development, testing and preparation for the production of completely new samples. Thus, the Deputy Minister of Defense recalled the recent throwing tests of the Sarmat rocket.
In the next year, the development of strategic nuclear forces will continue, and promising models will be put into service. One of the new products will be the Avangard strategic missile system, which includes a missile with a planning hypersonic warhead. According to A. Krivoruchko, in 2019, the first regiment re-armed with such systems will take over combat duty.
***
The latest reports of officials from the Ministry of Defense once again confirm the already known data on the planned rearmament of the Russian strategic missile forces. Over the past few months, the military and the media have repeatedly raised the topic of new missile systems and published various data. As has now become clear, some of these messages, received from unnamed sources, corresponded to reality.
For example, the deadline for the completion of all necessary work on the Sarmat missile system became known in late October. Then TASS, citing a source in the military-industrial complex, wrote that the flight tests of the new missile would end in 2021. At the same time, the industry will launch the mass production of such products and transfer them to the missile forces for the purpose of putting on duty.
According to TASS, the first missiles of the new model will have to go to the 62-th Red Banner Division in the village. Solar. First, one of the regiments of this division will have to master the operation of two launchers with new type missiles. In the future, the number of installations on duty will increase threefold and reach the regular number. After the rearmament of the 62-th missile division, the development of the promising Sarmat complex in other units will begin, but no data has yet been received.
A few days ago, information about the start of combat duty of new missiles in 2021 and the supply of such weapons to the Uzhur missile division received confirmation at the highest level. This information was revealed personally by the commander-in-chief of the Strategic Missile Forces.
It is noteworthy that recent reports on the progress of work on the Avangard project were most often announced by officials, but not by the press, referring to unnamed sources. Since the spring of this year, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the country regularly raised the topic of new weapons and published interesting data.
The existence of a missile system project with special combat equipment in the form of a planning hypersonic combat unit was first officially announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his appeal to the Federal Assembly on March 1. On the same day, Colonel-General S. Karakayev supplemented the presidential statements and said that the new complex had already been tested. In the future, various other information about the progress of the project appeared, and at the beginning of June V. Putin indicated the expected deadlines for adopting Avangard. The new complex will go into service in the next 2019 year.
The last interviews of S. Karakaev and A. Krivoruchko show: the work on the Avangard theme has been completed with the desired results, and the new missile system for the Strategic Missile Forces will be able to enter service in the previously announced time frame. Recently it became known that Avangard products have already been delivered to the series, and this makes it possible to expect an early transfer of serial equipment to strategic rocket forces. The processes of putting on duty and mastering a new material part should not take much time.
***
According to known data, the development of new weapons for strategic missile forces began in the distant past. So, the first works on the subject of intercontinental ballistic missiles with hypersonic planning blocks belong to the end of the eighties. In the middle of the two thousandth, officials spoke of the existence of promising projects of this kind. Designing the Sarmat product began no earlier than the end of the last decade, and with 2016, various rocket units are being tested.
ICBM type "Sarmat" is a means of delivery of combat equipment of various types. A three-stage heavy-class rocket is capable of carrying, according to various sources, at least 10 individual-targeting warheads. The range of delivery of warheads is indicated as “global”: the ability to use the most convenient and successful trajectories, including those with an increased length, has been obtained. The heavy "Sarmat" is intended to replace the missiles of its class, which are already in service, which are no longer fully compliant with the requirements and produce their own resources.
In the basic configuration, “Sarmat”, apparently, is a “classical” intercontinental ballistic missile. One of the other existing ICBMs in the near future will be able to get other opportunities. They are planned to be provided with the help of the Avangard combat unit. In this case, the rocket must solve the problem of the initial acceleration of such a combat unit with its conclusion to the desired trajectory. Hypersonic combat equipment of the new type significantly improves the characteristics of the missile complex and expands its capabilities.
The Avangard product is a hypersonic glider built with extensive use of composite materials. He is able to reach speeds of up to several kilometers per second and carry out active maneuvering along a trajectory. On board such a glider, probably, there is a special combat unit of unknown power. Due to its characteristic features, Avangard is able to move along an optimal trajectory, as well as to overcome existing and prospective missile defense systems.
One of the main prerequisites for the creation of new missile systems for the Strategic Missile Forces is the already completed and planned measures for the deployment of foreign missile defense systems in Eastern Europe and other regions. For this reason, in the new projects “Sarmat” and “Avangard” various solutions are used to effectively overcome the enemy's missile defense system. In the case of Avangard, such measures are already used at the level of the basic concept.
According to official data, the Avangard product will be the first of the most promising models for service. Serial production of such warheads has already begun, and next year they will be handed over to the troops. The Sarmat rocket will have to wait longer. The tests of this complex will end only in the 2021 year, and then his service will begin. The development of strategic missile forces continues, and the command is ready to report on successes.
On the materials of the sites:
http://redstar.ru/
http://mil.ru/
http://tass.ru/
http://rg.ru/
http://ria.ru/
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