Russia to test 'Satan 2' nuclear missile so powerful it could destroy TEXAS or FRANCE


The devastatingly-powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which replaces an earlier version codenamed 'Satan' by Nato, is thought to be the largest atomic weapon-carrying rocket ever produced - capable of housing as many as a dozen warheads inside its shell.
Russian media said the rocket could "erase from the face of the earth land plots the size of Texas", in comments that could be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate the US.
Worryingly, the missile has been designed with stealth technology which enables it to be fired at a target without being picked up by radar systems.

It is also said to travel at speeds that render most missile defence systems useless.
Seven years in the making, RS-28 Sarmat, as it is officially known, will be ready for testing in the summer and will enter service in 2018.
Russian broadcaster Zvezda said the new weaponry would "determine in which direction nuclear deterrence in the world will develop".
Defence experts say Sarmat has an operational range of around 10,000km - meaning European capitals as well as the east and west coasts of the US would be within range.
London is 2,500km from Moscow while Washington is 7,850km away.
The Satan missile is thought to weigh at least 100 tonnes, including a payload weighing up to 10 tonnes.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...troying-France

Russia Developing New Nuclear Missiles Capable of Penetrating US Defenses

Russia is developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) specifically designed to penetrate U.S. missile defense systems, Russian Commander of Strategic Missile Forces Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev told Russian state-owned news agency TASS on Tuesday.
According to Karakayev, the Russian military is introducing new types of warheads with a difficult to predict flight path in order to overcome U.S. missile defenses. “This is achieved both through the ICBM’s shorter acceleration phase and new types of warheads with a hard-to-predict flight trajectory and new means of overcoming the missile shield,” he said.
Russia has been testing a new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), the YU-71, a warhead capable of accelerating to up to ten times the speed of sound descending from the atmosphere on an erratic flight path without following a predictable ballistic trajectory. (The YU-71 performs evasive maneuvers making it very difficult for conventional missile defense systems to intercept.)
“The Yars missile system will form the basis of the forces’ mobile grouping. The SMF rearming with this system will offset the forces’ effective combat strength cuts at the turn of 2021 due to the forced decommissioning of the Topol mobile ground missile system [an older version of the RS-12M2] the operating life of which will expire by the time.”
By 2018, 70 percent of the SMF ICBM force will be upgraded and modernized, Karakayev claims: “The successful implementation of rearmament measures will build up the share of advanced missile complexes from 56 percent this year to 70 percent by January 1, 2018 and to 100 percent by 2022.” He also said that Russia’s modernization effort is a direct response to the growing sophistication of Western missile defense systems.
“The performance of the stationary grouping of the heavy ICBM (of the Voyevoda or Sarmat class) will four times surpass that of the stationary grouping of the light-class ICBM (Topol-M, Yars) by all the RVSN grouping tactical effectiveness parameters,” he added. The Sarmat purportedly can carry ten heavy or 15 lighter warheads and is expected to become operational by 2020.

http://thediplomat.com/2016/05/russi...g-us-defenses/

difficult to intercept..