Russian missiles to overcome any U.S. missile defense - Rogozin
MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Work to create new nuclear missiles for the Russian army is going to plan, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in the early hours of Monday.
The service life of the R-36M Voyevoda missile has been extended "until new missile weapons have emerged," Rogozin said in an interview with the "Sunday night with Vladimir Solovyov" program on the Rossiya-1 (VGTRK) television channel.
"Work on it is going to plan," he said.
The missiles in development will be capable of overcoming both America's existing and perspective missile defense systems, the deputy prime minister said. "We will rip up this defense," Rogozin said.
Two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), Sarmat and Sineva, are now being developed for the Russian army.
The Sarmat missile complex will enter service in 2019-2020, the Russian Defense Ministry said earlier.
Experts estimate that the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM will be able to deliver a multiple reentry vehicle weighing up to ten tonnes to any part of the world, across both North and South poles.
The Sarmat could also be used as a vehicle for hypersonic warheads, in particular a flying craft dubbed by the press as "Object 4202" designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya (Reutov, Moscow region).
Sarmat ICBMs are due to replace the world's most potent silo-based missile, RS-20V Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan in NATO's classification), currently in service at the Strategic Missile Troops divisions in Uzhur (Krasnoyarsk territory) and Dombarovsky (Orenburg region).
