After the start of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin gave the order to transfer the country's nuclear deterrence forces to a special mode of combat duty. This step was intended to prevent the direct military intervention of the West in an armed conflict in the Independent and became a guarantor of the prevention of a possible third world war..
Western countries, possessing nuclear weapons, forced to reckon with the Russian arsenal of ICBMs, sufficient for repeated destruction of hostile states. earlier, during the years of "partnership", they hoped for a gradual depletion of the nuclear forces of the Russian Federation for natural reasons, due to physical deterioration of ICBMs. However, intensive work was carried out in Russia to restore the technical readiness of missiles inherited from the USSR and deliveries of new Yars-type systems were carried out..
But against this background, the development of the product continued., capable of becoming a full-fledged replacement for the Voevoda ICBM, known in the West as "Satan". The new missile "Sarmat" is capable of destroying the enemy not only by a nuclear explosion, but also through the use of conventional weapons - the Avangard hypersonic warhead, the kinetic energy of which is sufficient to destroy the strategic objects of the enemy.
Iskander-M OTR Impact Consequences (left) and training warhead ICBM "Sarmat"
About the high performance of the new system says "footprint", which leaves an inert warhead "Sarmat" after falling to the ground. After the training "blank" was delivered to a conditional target, a crater with a depth of 8 and a radius of about 20 m. This is comparable to the consequences of strikes with the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile., in particular, in the course of their application to the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - there are already plenty of such examples.
