Shoigu inspected the production of the Sarmat missile system

Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu checked the progress of the state defense order at the Krasmash plant in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, which produces Sarmat missiles, and also heard a report from the company’s management on the implementation of contracts for the production of the strategic missile system. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Shoigu, as reported in the defense department, inspected the production workshops of the enterprise and the technological process of serial production of the fifth-generation strategic missile system “Sarmat”. Now “Krasmash” is producing the first serial missiles, which “in the very near future” will be put on combat duty, and in the positional area of ​​one of the formations, construction, installation and commissioning work on the units and systems of silo launchers and a command post is being completed, the statement says. message.

Now “Krasmash” is producing the first serial missiles, which “in the very near future” will be put on combat duty, and in the positional area of ​​one of the formations, construction, installation and commissioning work on the units and systems of silo launchers and a command post is being completed, the statement says. message.

“Re-equipping the Strategic Missile Forces with this complex, which will become the basis of the ground-based grouping of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces, is a priority in ensuring the country’s defense capability. Currently, the task of equipping the first missile regiment with the Sarmat complex at the head facility of the Strategic Missile Forces is being solved,” said the head of the Ministry of Defense.

The General Director of Krasmash, as noted, reported on the expansion of the enterprise’s production capacity, equipping it with modern technological equipment and the imminent commissioning of a new production building for machining production with an area of ​​18,000 square meters. m for 300 workplaces.

Sarmat is a fifth-generation Russian silo-based strategic missile system with a heavy multi-stage liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile. The Sarmat is equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles and can hit targets through the South Pole.

In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin statedthat the first launchers of the Sarmat missile complex with a new heavy missile will go on combat duty in 2023. The first launch of the Sarmat missile was carried out from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region on April 20, 2022. After this, successful tests of the Sarmat missile were reported November 18th. In December 2022, Shoigu proposed putting 22 launchers with Yars, Avangard and Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles on combat duty in the Strategic Missile Forces.