In a two-month power performance into his attack in Ukraine, Russia – launched a new nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile that President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday will make Moscow enemy stop and think.Putin was shown on TV told by the military that the awaited Sarmailary missile was launched for the first time from Plesetsk in northwestern Russia and crashing into the target on the Kamchatka Peninsula, nearly 6,000 km (3,700 miles).
Sarmail test, in developing for years, is not surprisingly western, but comes during extreme geopolitical tensions. Russia has not captured big cities since sending tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine on February 24.The Ministry of Defense Ukraine is not immediately available to comment.
“This new complex has the highest tactical and technical characteristics and is able to overcome all the modern ways of anti-missile defense. It doesn’t have analogues in the world and will not have a long time to come,” Putin said. This truly unique unique weapon will strengthen the potential of the battle of our armed forces, with reliably ensuring Russian security from external threats and providing food to think about those who, in the heat of aggressive rhetoric hustle and bustle, try to threaten our country. “
Announced an invasion of eight weeks ago, Putin performed a pointed reference to Russian nuclear forces and warned the West that every effort to block “will take you to the consequences like you have never met in your history.”A few days later, he ordered Russian nuclear forces to be warned height. “The prospect of the nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back in the realm of possibility,” UN Secretary General Antonerres said last month.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, Sarmail was fired from the silos launcher at 1512 Moscow (1212 GMT).Russian nuclear forces will begin receiving new missile delivery “in the fall of this year” after testing was finished, Tasses quoted Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Space Agency Roscosmos, said on Wednesday.Jack Watling from think-tank rusions in London said there was an element of posture and symbolism involved, less than three weeks before the annual victory parade where Russia showed off its newest weapon.
“The test time reflects Russia who wants to have something to be displayed as the achievement of technology in leading the victory day, when many of their technologies have not submitted the results they will like,” Watling said.Douglas Barrie, senior colleagues for military Aerospace at the International Institute for strategic studies, said the launch was an important milestone after years of delay due to funding problems and design challenges.
He said more tests needed before Russia could really spread it as a substitute for SS-18 and SS-19 missiles which “far past their sales date”.Barrie said Sarmail’s ability to carry 10 warheads and bait, and Russian choice to fire in one of the earth poles, created a challenge against satellite-based radar and tracking systems.Igor Korotchenko, editor in chief of the Russian national defense magazine, told the news agency Ria was a signal for the West that Moscow was able to take “destroying retribution that would end the history of any country which experienced encroachment on Russian security and its people”.