Missiles Underground: SS-X-30 SARMAT

SS-X-30 SARMAT - RS-28 Sarmat
complex 15P128 or 15P228, missile 15A28

upd.11/09/2020

Heavy liquide intercontinental ballistic missile - missile for replacement of the RS-20 / R-36 / SS-18 SATAN ICBMs.

Launch tube with ejection-test version of ICBM RS-28 Sarmat (test-site Plesetsk before launch 27.12.2017, http://mil.ru)

Developers:

- Makeev GRTs (State Rocket Center, Miass, the lead developer)

- NPO Mashinostroyenia (Reutov)

- NPO Energomash (engines)

- KBSM (launch equipment)

Some of reserchers had idea about possibility of cooperation with Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) - it was possible before 2014.

Developing: first information about development of Sarmat was published at 2009. The terms of reference for the development of ICBMs was approved in 2011 and the technical development for the "Sarmat" was begin in 2012.

Tests: first ICBM Sarmat for ejection tests was ready from industry at november 2015 but with several different reasons first launch was delayed to 2017 - engines, truobles with pant, not ready test-site. Media wrote in 2017 that to the end of year plant must build three missiles for ejection tests.

Launchs list of Sarmat missile:

01-ejection - First ejection test (one of three) - mod. RS-28 Sarmat for ejection tests - test-site Plesetsk Yubileynaya site (silo) - 27.12.2017

history of plans (special feature of russian planning):

june 2015 (early 2015)
autumn 2015 (26.06.2015)

17-31.12.2015 (16.12.2015)

march 2016 (january 2016)

april-june 2016 (20.02.2016)

second half 2016 (11.05.2016)

march-april 2017 (13.01.2017)

end of june 2017 (01.04.2017)

october-december 2017 (october 2017)

02-ejection - Second ejection test (two of three) - mod. RS-28 Sarmat for ejection tests - test-site Plesetsk Yubileynaya site (silo) - 29.03.2018

03-ejection - Third ejection test (three of three) - mod. RS-28 Sarmat for ejection tests - test-site Plesetsk Yubileynaya site (silo) - may 2018 (ref).

01 - First flight test - real RS-28 mod. - test-site Plesetsk Yubileynaya site (silo) - not now (august 2020)

history of plans (special feature of russian planning):

first half 2016 (2015)

second half 2016 (20.02.2016 г.)

forecast - 2017-2018 (12.05.2016 г.)

forecast - 2018 (07.09.2016)

forecast - 2019-2020 (2018)

forecast - end of 2020 (2020)

Yubileynaya test-site at Plesetsk with process of loading Sarmat at his silo

Production of Sarmat missiles was established at main plant of Makeev produce cooperation - Krasnoyarsk Machinebuilding Plant. Contract to produce firsts Sarmats was begin in 2011. And in 2014 production was begin.

Employment of Sarmat ICBM will begin at 2021 at Uzhur (Krasnoyarsk region) RVSN division (as we know now at 2020) and later at Dombarovsky. But in 2015 they said about employment in 2018. My forecast for now - 2023-2025.

19.11.2019 Ru MoD said that all works for emplayment will be finished at 2021 (ref).

Launch equipment: silo launch complex 15P728 similar to silo compexes for heavy ICBMs like R-36M / R-36M2 SATAN. Developer - KBSM.

Transportation-loading vehicle 15T526. Developer - KB Motor TsENKI.

Upper part of transport-launch tube of Sarmat ICBM

Reloading ICBM Sarmat from train to transportation vehicle

Transportation-loading vehicle 15T526

Missile 15A28 Sarmat
Three stages missile with liquide engines. At first stage used engine similar to 15D285 for SATAN ICBM. Similar liquide engines used at second and third stages.