Rs 28 Sarmat Yield
There was a versions of the r 36m missile with a range of 16 000 km.
Rs 28 sarmat yield. 1 after awarding production contracts to makeyev design bureau and npomash in early 2011 russia concluded research and development of the sarmat icbm on july 21 2011. Individual mushroom cloud courtesy of flickr like china s df 31 the rs 28 sarmat could forgo the single large warhead for a group of smaller ones but the reduction in yield would likely be offset by the distribution of the weapon s payload. рс 28 сармат named after the sarmatians. According to table 1 of the article the expectation is that rs 28 will be configured to carry ten 500 kiloton yield warheads.
Commissioned by the russian federation in 2010 this weapons system is expected to become operational between 2018 and 2020 replacing the aging r 36m2 voyevoda. The rs 28 sarmat nato. In short multiple warheads can destroy a larger swath of territory than. Russia is deploying its new rs 28 sarmat icbm a hundred ton twelve warhead behemoth which makes america s thirty nine ton minuteman icbm look like a rocket propelled toothpick.
The rs 28 is a future delivery system not capable of destroying anything itself but carrying multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles each having a warhead. America s icbm s would barely be visible compared to the rs 28 sarmat s yield. The rs 28 sarmat satan 2 is a heavy intercontinental ballistic missile that is currently in development. Ss x 29 or ss x 30 is a liquid fueled mirv equipped heavy thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile icbm.
Designed to replace russia s aging ss 18 satan icbm the rs 28 sarmat began development some time in the 2000s. Of the six strategic weapons unveiled by russian president vladimir putin at his oft cited 2018 annual state of the nation address rs 28 sarmat is among the most consequential. Development the sarmat icbm s march 2018 ejection test at plesetsk cosmodrome. Ss x 29 or ss x 30 is a russian liquid fueled mirv equipped heavy intercontinental ballistic missile icbm under development by the makeyev rocket design bureau since 2009.
2 russia completed its first. The rs 28 sarmat is able to employ multiple trajectories over the north pole or south pole in order to reach targets in the united states. It is likely that with reduced payload this missile has even longer range. The rs 28 will have a range of at least 11 000 km.
The rs 28 рс 28 сармат also known as sarmat or sarmatian ss x 30 is a future russian liquid fueled mirv equipped super heavy thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile in development by the makeyev rocket design bureau from 2009 intended to replace the previous ss 18 satan its large payload would allow for up to 10 heavy warheads or 15 lighter ones and or a. It is intended to replace the r 36m icbm ss 18 satan in russia s arsenal.