New hypersonic strategic complexes are being developed in Russia, which will replace the planning blocks of the “Vanguard” when the United States learns to counteract them. This was stated by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Sergey Karakaev. АиФ.ги I was looking into why programs to create new nuclear weapons are being accelerated.
According to the general, the new complexes will be the response of the United States, which is currently actively developing both hypersonic weapons directly and this type of weapons designed to neutralize the Russian one. The new weapons system is planned to be created by the time the Pentagon finds an “antidote” to Russian strategic missile systems.
While in the “Vanguard”
When creating a new missile system, the developments that are used in the Vanguard will be used, and new technologies will also be integrated. It is planned to develop a new mobile ground-based missile system, as well as a mine-based system. The work will be carried out within the framework of the new state armament program, which is valid until 2034. Leading research organizations of the Ministry of Defense, research teams, defense institutes and design bureaus, as well as enterprises of the military-industrial complex will be involved in the creation of the new complex.
The creation of a replacement is a distant prospect, currently, the Vanguard can cope with the tasks of nuclear deterrence, which is by far the most advanced missile system, and it was originally created as a response to the US missile defense system. It includes a special intercontinental missile,equipped with a gliding winged combat unit. Detailed tactical and technical characteristics have not been officially published. To date, it is known that the hypersonic gliding unit is capable of reaching speeds above 20m. It goes to the target like a fireball, the surface temperature of which is 1600-2000 degrees Celsius
Combat equipment can be a separable head part of individual guidance and has a set of means of overcoming missile defense. The combat units of the Avangard complex have their own engines and can maneuver on the trajectory both in direction and speed. The control system allows you to quickly change the flight task and distributiontargets directly in flight. According to the military, the planning winged unit of the Avangard complex can overcome any existing missile defense system due to its ability to maneuver in the atmosphere along an unpredictable trajectory. According to experts, at least 50 SM-3 anti-missiles are required to defeat one combat unit, which, in fact, makes the US missile defense meaningless.
The development of the Avangard missile system was completed in July 2018, at the same time the defense industry enterprises began its serial production. The first regiment in a reduced composition, armed with a strategic missile system with a hypersonic gliding winged unit “Avangard”, took up combat duty in the Yasnenskaya missile Division in the Orenburg region in 2019.
Near-term perspective
Currently, the Strategic Missile Forces has stationary mine-based missile complexes “Avangard”, “Voivode”, “Stiletto” and “Topol-M” and “Yars”, as well as mobile complexes “Topol”, “Topol-M” and “Yars ». The ratio of deployed carriers in stationary and mobile groups of the RVSN is approximately equal. However, due to the presence of heavy and medium-class missile systems “Voivode” and “Stiletto”, the number of nuclear warheads in a stationary grouping is currently somewhat larger than in a mobile one.
The military reports that in a few years there will be no obsolete Soviet-made missile systems in combat. After the rearmament of the troops, the complexes on combat duty will be maintained and modernized in the future.
At the end of 2022, a landmark rearmament will begin from heavy-class missile systems “Voivode” to “Sarmat”. The new heavy rocket will significantly surpass its predecessor in many characteristics. The first regiment of the Sarmat complex will take up combat duty in the Uzhur missile compound. Currently, work is underway to prepare the infrastructure in the Uzhur Rocket Division of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the installation of mine launchers andunified command post. Work is also underway to prepare for flight tests of the complex itself, after which the missile will be adopted. “Sarmat” was developed at the V. P. Makeev State Missile Center, whose main specialization is the development of sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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