ICBM "Sarmat" will be adopted in 2018 year
In recent years, a peculiar tradition has appeared in the Russian Ministry of Defense. Before a holiday of one or another kind of troops, its command tells the public about the latest successes and plans for the future. Earlier this week, Colonel-General S. Karakayev, Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces, took the floor.
The development of strategic missile forces is one of the most important tasks under the current state armament program. According to current plans, in the coming years there will have to be a radical upgrade of the RVSN equipment and armaments. In 2018, the share of new weapons and equipment should reach 80%. For this, it is supposed to continue the supply of equipment already mastered in production. In addition, several projects must be completed. Due to this, until the end of the current decade, the number of obsolete and obsolete missiles or auxiliary equipment will constantly decrease.
At the same time, however, the command of the Strategic Missile Forces and the Ministry of Defense do not intend to immediately abandon the old missiles. According to Colonel-General S. Karakayev, the Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) of the R-36М2 "Voevoda" will remain in service until the 2022 year. The ICBMs of this model, put into service in the late eighties, will continue to serve. Their number will constantly decrease and at the beginning of the next decade these missiles will be completely removed from duty.
The Russian strategy of completing and using strategic missile forces implies the simultaneous operation of two classes of rockets: heavy and light. In the light class, the Topol-M and Yars missile systems will be used in the future. In place of heavy "Voivods", removed from duty, will come new missiles "Sarmat". Adoption of this missile complex is expected in 2018-20. Thus, the production of missiles of the new model will go along with the reduction in the number of old ones, which will allow upgrading the weapons of the Strategic Missile Forces without compromising their capabilities.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces argues that the new Sarmat missile system will not yield to Voivode in terms of performance and combat effectiveness. The new rocket will be able to destroy targets at long ranges, using different flight paths. The new control system should provide high precision targeting combat units. The starting weight of the new rocket, as stated earlier, will exceed 100 tons.
The development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat" began at the end of the last decade. N. Solovtsov, at the time the former commander-in-chief of the Strategic Missile Forces, first spoke about the existence of a similar project in the summer of 2009. A little later, the first information appeared on the expected timeline for the completion of the project - the development was planned to be completed before 2017. Finally, in September last year, S. Karakayev spoke about plans for adopting a new ICBM. Like now, a year ago, the Ministry of Defense planned to begin purchasing new missiles in the 2018-20 years.
The hypothetical image of the early version of the ICBM project for the development of the Makeyev State Center, which could form the basis of the Sarmat design and development work, was published in 2005 in
The project "Sarmat" is being developed by a group of organizations of the defense industry, headed by the State Rocket Center. V.P. Makeev. According to some sources, the mass production of new missiles will be deployed at the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant. For obvious reasons, such information may not be true, since the project has not yet reached even the testing stage. Last fall, reports appeared in the domestic media, according to which the Ministry of Defense reviewed the draft design of the Sarmat rocket complex and approved it, making a number of comments. Shortly thereafter, work began on a technical project. In the summer of this year, it became known that a full-scale layout was planned for 2014 year. Thus, in the course of the next few years, the first test launches can be expected.
The design, composition of the equipment and characteristics of the promising ICBM "Sarmat" remain unknown. Due to the lack of official information, various assumptions and estimates appear, based on last year's statements by Colonel-General S. Karakaev. Then he mentioned that the new rocket for the Strategic Missile Forces will have a starting weight of more than 100 tons. Based on this information, all existing assumptions are made. Apparently, the design of the Sarmat rocket will in its basic features be similar to the Voivod P-36М2. In this case, the promising ICBM will be a two-stage rocket with a stage of dilution of military units. There is reason to believe that liquid engines will be used on the Sarmat rocket. But do not forget that the official information about the technical appearance of a promising rocket is limited only by approximate information about its starting weight.
The development and construction of new heavy ICBMs will allow an equivalent replacement of existing weapons of obsolete types. The deployment of heavy-class missiles with individual-guided combat units in the context of the re-equipment of the Strategic Missile Forces is a way to radically modernize existing delivery systems. The service life of the existing Voyevoda missiles is coming to an end, which is why in the foreseeable future it is required to create a new complex with similar combat characteristics. They will be the “Sarmat”.
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