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SS-30 ?? / RS-28 / 15A28 Sarmat
New Heavy ICBM - Program

To replace of "Satan", the State Rocket Center named after Academician Viktor Makeyev developed a new heavy ICBM with RS-28 "Sarmat" code. The draft for the heavy intercontinental ballistic missile was to be elaborated no later than June 2009 (according to an interview the Commander RSVN n. Solovtsova, on Jun 10, 2005). At that time development was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016 (source-the Commander of the STRATEGIC ROCKET FORCES a. Shvaichenko, 16.12.2009, 2005).

According to sketchy information in late 2010 or early 2011, it was planned to review the draft and continue the project with the further elaboration of the requirements. Technical specifications for the development were approved in 2011. Development of technical specifications for OCD "sarmat" on the development of advanced missile with liquid ICBM was carried out with the participation of the CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE of the No. 4 Defense Ministry. In 2011, the "Vanguard" has begun to develop guidance technology and feasibility study for the construction of the airframe of the missiles - this work was scheduled for completion in 2012, the development of materials for the conceptual design of the onboard equipment for OCD "sarmat" layout of components of the angular velocity of the wave-based solid-state gyro and making six of layout designs VTG planned SPC automatics and instrument making in January-April 2012.

In 2011, the Russian military announced plans to build a new missile [Russian and Western designations SS-X-?? is unknown pending flight testing by the period of 2016-2018] to replace the Voyevoda, (Governor) (SS-18, Satan) ICBM, which had been in service since 1967.

The state contract for performance of development work with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was signed in June 2011. On December 17, 2013, the commander of the Strategic Missile Force, Colonel-General Sergey Karakayev, officially announced to the journalists for the first time about the creation of the complex. As a basis for the development of an engine from the rocket "Voevod".

Russia's State Rocket Center V. P. Makeyev of (Miass) and NGO's Engineering (Reutov) along with NPO Mashinostroyeniyais developed the new sarmat / Sarmatian heavy liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile to overcome the U.S.’s prospective missile defense system, Strategic Missile Forces chief Lt. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said 16 December 2011. The decision had been made to create a new silo-launched heavy missile that will have “enhanced capability to breach a hypothetical US missile defense system,” he said.

The Russian military planned to put Sarmat in service in late 2018 and complete replacing older variants of Satan by 2020. Tests of the new Russian ICBM RS-28 Sarmat, which is meant to replace the outgoing heavy silo-based Soviet R-36M missiles, dubbed “Satan” by NATO, were likely to begin in summer of 2016. The RS-28 has been in development since 2009 and is scheduled to start replacing the old ICBMs in 2018.

On 07 September 2016, a defense industry official told Russian media that the mass production of the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new multi-warhead, super-heavy missile designed to defeat anti-missile systems, would begin in 2018, two years ahead of schedule.

Russia’s Strategic Missile Force will deploy a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile no later than 2020, its commander said on 17 December 2013. “We are counting on introducing into the armory by 2018-2020 at the outside a new missile system with specifications not inferior to its predecessor,” Lt. Gen. Sergei Karakaev said. The new silo-based Sarmat ICBM will replace the world’s most powerful nuclear missile, the twenty-five-year-old R-36M2 (SS-18 Satan). The new system is just one of a number that will totally replace Soviet-era missiles by 2021, he said. “New hardware is arriving on time and by 2018 more than 80 percent of Russia’s strategic missile force will be comprised of the latest weapons,” Karakaev said.

By 2018, Russian nuclear forces will be limited to 1,550 warheads and 700 total deployed strategic nuclear delivery systems including long-range missiles and bombers as part of the New START treaty signed with the United States in 2011. Karakaev called that number “necessary and sufficient” to maintain strategic nuclear parity with the US and other nuclear states. The new missiles are part of a $700 billion procurement plan for the Russian Armed Forces in the period to 2020.

“One of the main enterprises developing liquid-propelled missiles now is the Academician V.P. Makeyev State Rocket Center. Thanks to the high scientific-technical and industrial potential, it has won a tender for the state order placement that also involved other Russian enterprises, in particular, the Reutov-based VPK NPO Mashinostroyeniya rocket design bureau,” Commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RSMF) Colonel General Sergey Karakayev told reporters on 16 December 2014.

According to Karakayev, the Makeyev State Rocket Center “has drawn together cooperation ensuring closed-cycle design, development and serial production of missiles and sea-launched missile systems. Specialists of the enterprises have carried out major preparatory work, in particular, for the study of the experience of the creation of the Voivode class missiles (NATO’s reporting name Satan).... So, we have no doubt that the new heavy liquid-propelled missile will be created before the end of the current decade”.

The former Chief of the General staff of the STRATEGIC MISSILE FORCES, Colonel-General Viktor Yesin (as of 2012, the Commander-in-Chief of the STRATEGIC MISSILE FORCES consultant) said Russia will be staging a new ICBMS on alert beginning in 2018. On June 18, 2013 RIA "Novosti" reported that the construction of a full-scale model of the rocket will begin in 2014.

Storage, transport and launch of TPK are development and production of OJSC "Avant Guarde". In 2011, the "Vanguard" has begun to develop guidance technology and feasibility study for the construction of the hull TPK "sarmat". Control system and guidance -control system are inertial. At least parts of the angular velocity of the wave-based solid-state gyroscope (VTG) is developing the NPC automatics and instrument making. akad. N.a. Pilyugina. development of materials for the conceptual design of the onboard equipment for OCD "sarmat" layout of components of the angular velocity of the wave-based solid-state gyro and making six of layout designs VTG planned NNC automatics and instrument making in January-April, 2012.

In June 2021, the general director of the Krasmash plant, Alexander Gavrilov, told TASS that the LKI missiles are scheduled for the third quarter of 2021. Earlier it was also reported that the Sarmat ICBM will enter service in 2021. It was supposed to re-equip one of the regiments of the Uzhur division of the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces). This was stated back in 2018 by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

The first launch of the newest liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silo-based "Sarmat" as part of flight design tests (LKI) was scheduled for the fall of 2021. This was reported to TASS 04 August 2021 by a source in the military-industrial complex. "The first launch of Sarmat within the LKI will presumably take place in the fall, the second at the end of 2021," he said, adding that two test launches of ICBMs were planned this year.