Published on: 2026-05-12
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian –
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Moscow, May 12 /Xinhuanet/ — President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin congratulated Russian military personnel and designers on the successful test of the intercontinental ballistic missile “Sarmat.” On Tuesday, he listened in video conference mode to the report of Sergey Karakaev, commander of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia, who spoke about the testing of the missile system.
“Congratulations to the Ministry of Defense, all employees, scientific staff, engineers, organizers of the defense-industrial complex production, main executors, and the vast cooperation with this major event and an unconditional success. Thank you for your work in strengthening Russia’s defense capability,” quotes RIA Novosti the words of the head of state.
As V. Putin noted, work on the “Sarmat” began in 2011. This is the most powerful missile system in the world. “The total power of the delivered warhead exceeds the power of any existing, the most powerful Western analogue by more than 4 times,” the Russian leader indicated.
He added that the range of the “Sarmat” missile system could exceed 35 thousand km. “The missile can move not only along a ballistic trajectory but also along a suborbital trajectory, which allows ensuring a range of over 35 thousand km with simultaneously improved accuracy characteristics by two times, with the ability to overcome all existing and prospective missile defense systems,” emphasized the President of the Russian Federation.
V. Putin stated that after the US withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, the Russian Federation was forced to “think about ensuring its strategic security in the context of a new reality and the inevitability of disrupting the strategic balance, parity.” “That is why — I emphasize once again — work was started in Russia to create promising complexes that have no global analogues, ensuring the guaranteed overcoming of existing and prospective missile defense systems,” he explained.
The head of the Russian state reported that “Sarmat” will be put on combat duty by the end of the current year. He also reminded that work is at the final stage on two complexes with small nuclear propulsion units. “This is a unique unmanned underwater vehicle ‘Poseidon’ and a unique long-range cruise missile ‘Burevestnik’,” V. Putin specified.
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