{"id":17190,"date":"2026-05-13T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=17190"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:54:32","slug":"russia-successfully-tests-troubled-satan-ii-will-enter-combat-by-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/russia-successfully-tests-troubled-satan-ii-will-enter-combat-by-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Successfully Tests Troubled SATAN II, Will Enter Combat By Year’s End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Both the US and Russia are updating their nuclear missiles which is interesting as we near the tribulation. And these Russian missiles have some terrifying capabilities. And during the Ukraine war Russia demonstrated one of their hypersonic missile platforms by firing blanks<\/a>, and it was a terrifying sight, and they won’t be intercepted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/russia-successfully-tests-troubled-satan-ii-will-enter-combat-years-end<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Tyler Durden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia on Tuesday announced that it has successfully completed a test of the “Sarmat” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)<\/strong>, a new ‘doomsday’ weapon <\/strong>which has had a troubled<\/a> roll out and development, but which has not yet been fully deployed as part of Russia’s military arsenal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in 2023 the cutting edge heavy missile was reportedly put on ‘combat alert’ – according to some headlines at the time – the following year saw at least one test deemed unsuccessful and a failure<\/a>. This was seen as delaying its full combat deployment.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interfax was the first to report Tuesday’s new Sarmat test, with Russian President Putin in follow-up remarking that its range could exceed 35,000. And Reuters has followed with<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russia has \u200bsuccessfully tested \u200cits new Sarmat intercontinental \u200bballistic missile, \u200bSergei Karakayev, the \u2060commander \u200bof the strategic \u200bmissile forces, told Russian President \u200bVladimir \u200bPutin on Tuesday. Putin said \u200cthat \u2060Russia planned to put the \u200bSarmat \u200bon \u2060combat duty by \u200bthe end \u200bof \u2060this year<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The nuclear-capable Sarmat ICBM was previously touted by President Putin as being capable hitting “any target on Earth”<\/strong> – and is widely believed to be by far the longest-range missile in Russia’s arsenal<\/strong> (or in the world for that matter). It’s been nicknamed by NATO the “SATAN II”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sarmat, which is in a “superheavy” class of missiles, has a short initial boost phase which gives it better ability to elude all conventional anti-missile defense systems, given this results in a much smaller window of time to track it. By design, its super long-range gives it the ability to reach targets thousands of [miles] away\u00a0in the United States or Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to its specifications, it’s by far the heaviest missile Russia possesses – at over<\/a> 200 tons – and heavier than all foreign competitors<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This allows it to carry around 15 warheads, up to 750kt. (The bomb US dropped on Hiroshima was 15kt.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This would be enough to wipe out a country the size of France<\/strong>. It can also carry hypersonic missiles, rendering most missile defense systems ineffective.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It has long been in development – since 2009 – and has been in testing phase for many years, some test flights of which may have<\/a> failed. The Sarmat has been touted as being able to reach speeds of nearly 16,000 mph<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin early in the program described: “The new complex has the highest tactical and technical characteristics and is capable of overcoming all modern means of anti-missile defense. It has no analogues in the world and won’t have for a long time to come<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2757\ufe0f President Putin Receives Report on Successful \u2018Sarmat\u2019 Intercontinental Missile Test \u2013 Kremlin

The successful launch will allow the first regiment to be put on duty by the end of the year, according to the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces.

\ud83d\udcf9: Russian MoD pic.twitter.com\/6euvdKssds<\/a> \u2014 RT_India (@RT_India_news) May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But despite this rosy presentation of the Sarmat’s purported capabilities, it has faced an uphill battle from the start, and there were manufacturing problems being reported even nearly a decade ago<\/strong>. For example<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The heavy, liquid-fueled Sarmat ICBM is being developed as a replacement for Russia\u2019s older R-36M missile (NATO Reporting name: SS-18 Satan)<\/strong>. The Sarmat\u2019s large payload will allow for up to 10 heavy warheads or 15 lighter ones, or as many as 24 hypersonic Yu-71 glide vehicles (Sputnik News<\/a>, June 11, 2016). Production of the new missile and its prototype was entrusted to the Krasnoyarsk Machine Building Plant (Krasmash), which suffers from serious equipment depreciation issues\u2014in 2010, fewer than 20 percent of machines at its fabrication facility were less than 20 years old<\/strong> (T. V. Yankova, A. M. Ragozina, \u201cTechno-Economic Justification of Equipment Modernization at Krasmash,\u201d Actual Problems of Aviation and Cosmonautics, No. 6: 2, 2010). The quality and lead time of the order will depend on the modernization of the production facilities at Krasmash. Efforts toward this end have already started: more than 16 billion rubles ($274 million) will reportedly be invested by 2019. And Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has taken a personal interest in making sure these modernization goals are met.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But by now the Kremlin is stressing that prior troubles have been resolved and smoothed out, and that this nuclear-capable beast is set to be the heavy ballistic long-range missile of Russia’s future defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both the US and Russia are updating their nuclear missiles which is interesting as we near the tribulation. And these Russian missiles have some terrifying capabilities. And during the Ukraine war Russia demonstrated one of their hypersonic missile platforms by firing blanks, and it was a terrifying sight, and they won’t be intercepted. https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/russia-successfully-tests-troubled-satan-ii-will-enter-combat-years-end By […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17191,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions\/17191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}