TASS:
MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. Flight tests of the most advanced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) will begin in “the nearest perspective,” Strategic Missile Force Commander Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
According to Karakayev, the necessary infrastructure for the flight tests of Sarmat ICBM is being constructed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in north Russia.
“Flight tests of the complex will start in the nearest perspective and its success will provide for the serial production of its components,” he said.
The rearmament of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces with the most advanced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile will begin with the the Uzhur-based strategic missile force division in 2021, Karakayev said.
“Wе plan to start the rearmament with this missile complex starting in 2021 in the Uzhur-based missile force division, which currently has in operation its predecessor – the Voyevoda missile complex,” Karakayev said.
