06.07.2017
The Russian industry is ready to build a 100-ton ballistic missile, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry
Rogozin said. According to him, the same can be said about the Barguzin railway-based missile system. The projects are
"on the level of absolute readiness of the industry for their
implementation, should the relevant decision be made to include the projects in
the state armament program," Rogozin said when answering a question about
the stage of readiness of the Bargain railway-based missile system and the
100-ton heavy ballistic missile.
During the times of the Soviet Union, Strategic Missile Forces had three divisions of
"Molodets" rail-based missile systems (NATO reporting name SS-24
"Scalpel"). The complexes were deployed in the Kostroma region, Perm
and Krasnoyarsk regions. There were 12 "nuclear trains" in total,
each of them carrying three missiles.
The complexes were passed into service a few years before
the collapse of the USSR, in 1987. In the West, the new Soviet complexes were
dubbed "ghost trains."
The railway-based complexes were decommissioned in
2003-2005 without extending the resource of their service. Those complexes were
designed by "Yuzhnoye" design bureau in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The
current development is exclusively Russian.
Missile tests for the Barguzin systems took place in
November of last year. Noteworthy, it became known this week that the Ministry
of Defense decided to delay the tests of RS-28 Sarmat ballistic missile. The Sarmat missile is to
replace RS-18 Voevoda missile complex (NATO reporting name - SS-18
"Satan"). Originally, it was planned that the liquid-fuel rocket
RS-28 Sarmat will be passed into service in 2019-2020. The missile is said to
be a carrier of hypersonic blocks, which will be capable of breaking through
any existing missile defences.
Dmitry Rogozin also talked about the prospects of the
Russian Navy. According to the vice-premier, Russia currently puts emphasis on
"muscular" vessels, as he said. "They are the ships that can
carry a variety of arms. In a nutshell, a Russian corvette of smaller
displacement should be equal to a cruiser of naval forces of the West,"
Rogozin said. In addition, he noted, the Russian navy is provided with all
necessary nomenclature of nuclear power plants.
Last week, deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy,
Victor Bursuk, announced plans for the construction of another aircraft
carrier. Presently, Russia has only one such vessel - the Admiral Kuznetsov.
However, even though the Russian Defence Ministry shows interest in the
creation of another aircraft carrier, these plans are very far from their
practical implementation.
Anton Kulikov
Pravda.Ru
Pravda.Ru
Source: pravdareport.com
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