The Sarmat ICBM is the last argument of the Russians/Screenshot
After the actual defeat of the Russian invaders in the war against Ukraine and the realization of the fact of a complete fiasco in a conventional war, a number of Russian officials in the format of mass hysteria began to threaten Western countries with the destruction of nuclear weapons.
Increasingly, types of weapons that are not in service with the Russian army are mentioned as a tool for this destruction. For example, Russian propagandists increasingly began to recall the Sarmat missile, which is currently only being tested and is unlikely to continue to be tested, but more on that later.
Threats in hindsight
The fact is that last week, such a figure as Dmitry Rogozin said that about 50 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) “Sarmat” would soon be put on combat duty, and serial deliveries of the missile are planned to begin by the end of autumn this year .
However, the words of Rogozin, as is often the case with Russians, are nothing more than shaking the air, which has nothing to do with reality. But first things first.
First of all, let me remind you that the first throw tests of the Sarmat ICBM, which were planned for 2016, were carried out only in 2018, and resumed in 2020. Such delays were caused by a large number of technical and technological problems that arose as part of the preparation of the missile for testing.
Avangard pulls to the bottom
In fact, the Sarmat did not enter service at the time when the Avangard complex had already been put into service. In turn, the invulnerable and “unparalleled in the world” Avangard complex, which the President of Russia used to scare the West in his time in a cartoon format, should have been installed precisely on the Sarmatians.
And here it begins the most interesting thing.
Russian rocket scientists got out of the situation with the delayed Sarmat by the fact that the Avangard complex was decided to be installed on old Soviet UR-100N UTTKh ICBMs, which have not been produced since 1985, until 2027. According to the Avangard supply plan, 12 units will be transferred to the troops from 2019 to 2027.
Rogozin is forced to tell fairy tales/Roskosmos
That is, the question arises, if the plan was drawn up for several years in advance, what kind of production of Sarmat ICBMs in the amount of 50 units can we talk about if 12 Avangards are produced in total?
What about the sanctions
But not even this strange discrepancy fact raises the main question, but the fact that the Sarmat ICBM includes a considerable elementary foreign-made electronic base.
In other words, foreign microcircuits and trace elements.
That is, the production of ICBM “Sarmat”, thanks to the sanctions, today can be nothing more than a piece and it is not a fact that the available stocks of microelements will be enough even for missiles in the framework of tests.
ClowneryWhat do we have? Rogozin scares the world with fifty missiles that have not completed tests and are unlikely to complete, and even if they do, the required number of combat systems for them will definitely not be produced in the next 10 years?
And I haven’t remembered this yet the fact that the Avangard complex is also critically dependent on Western microcircuits and plans to supply them to the troops, even on an old Soviet rocket, are already being frustrated.
With this information, it is a pleasure to listen to Rogozin.
