{"id":224124,"date":"2021-01-03T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T09:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224124"},"modified":"2021-01-05T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:14:11","slug":"russia-to-test-new-missile-that-beats-all-defence-systems-with-range-of-6200-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224124","title":{"rendered":"Russia to test new missile that &#8216;beats all defence systems&#8217; with range of 6,200 miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Abigail O\u2019Leary \u2013 Daily Mirror Jan 2, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia is preparing to carry out flight tests of its new intercontinental ballistic missile which it claims can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/russia-test-missile-beats-defence-23251106\">overcome any defences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The RS-28 Sarmat weighs 208 tonnes and has a range of about 6,200 miles.<\/p>\n<p>It will carry up to 16 warheads and it&#8217;s claimed could carry a payload capable of destroying an area the size of Texas or France.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of the missile has been put back several times because of delays in testing.<\/p>\n<p>But Alexei Krivoruchko, Russia&#8217;s deputy defence minister, told Krasnaya Zvezda, a military newspaper, that long-distance launches were imminent.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I will note that ejection tests of the Sarmat missile are completed with positive results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the near future we will begin carrying out flight tests of this rocket complex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ejection or &#8220;pop-up&#8221; tests limit the firing to the first-stage engine pushing the missile out of the silo into the air.<\/p>\n<p>The Sarmat is one of an arsenal of new strategic weapons unveiled by Vladimir Putin in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Krivoruchko added: &#8220;By virtue of its capabilities, no missile defence weapon, even the most advanced, can hinder it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the West would be forced to reckon with a rearmed Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The missles include the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, which Mr Putin said could fly &#8220;like a meteorite, like a ball of fire&#8221;, the Kinzhal air-launched missile. a nuclear-powered cruise missile and a silent long-range underwater drone.<\/p>\n<p>Sarmat will go on combat duty in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/russia-test-missile-beats-defence-23251106\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The missile weighs 208 tonnes and can carry a payload big enough to destroy an area the size of France or Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224125,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224124\/revisions\/224125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}