[SIZE=7]Vladimir Putin test launches terrifying 4,000mph “invincible” Satan missile[/SIZE]
The weapon emerged from an underground silo - paused as if hovering above the ground, and then sped away in a cloud of white smoke
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Vladimir Putin today answered his Western critics by demonstrating a fearsome test firing of Russia’s new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile - dubbed 'Satan’s missile
Vladimir Putin today answered his Western critics by demonstrating a fearsome test firing of Russia’s new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile - dubbed ‘Satan’s missile’
Footage of the “invincible” 4,000mph hypersonic weapon shows is emerging from an underground silo and pausing as if hovering above the ground.
It then speeds away in a cloud of white smoke from the snow-covered Plesetsk spaceport in northern Russia.
The launch comes amid the greatest tension between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War with tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Britain.
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Britain has blamed the nerve agent attack, which left the father and daughter fighting for their, on Russia - but Putin has denied it had any involvement.
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Britain has blamed the nerve agent attack, which left the father and daughter fighting for their, on Russia - but Putin has denied it had any involvement.
The new launch is shown on a 23-second video from the Russian defence ministry.
The ICMB was fired for the second time since tests began last December , say Moscow officials.
“This new test at the Plesetsk spaceport confirmed its characteristics during the pre-launch and initial flight phases,” the ministry said in a statement published in its Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper.
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article12276386.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Putin-answers-West-by-showing-off-his-fearsome-new-Sarmat-hypersonic-missile-in-test-launch.jpgThe “invinvible” hypersonic weapon emerged from an underground silo(Image: Youtube)https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article12276380.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Putin-answers-West-by-showing-off-his-fearsome-new-Sarmat-hypersonic-missile-in-test-launch.jpgIt paused as if hovering above the ground, and then sped away in a cloud of smoke and flames(Image: Youtube)https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article12276388.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Putin-answers-West-by-showing-off-his-fearsome-new-Sarmat-hypersonic-missile-in-test-launch.jpgThe Sarmat is known to NATO as the SS-X-32 SNOWFLAKE(Image: Youtube)
Putin said during his annual state of the nation parliamentary address this month that Russia had begun actively testing the Sarmat - known to NATO as the SS-X-32 SNOWFLAKE.
It is expected to go operational in 2021 with the the Uzhur-based strategic missile force division.
In order to intercept a Sarmat, at least 500 American ABM missiles would be needed, according to Viktor Bondarev, chairman of Russian senate’s Defence and Security Committee and until recently commander of the country’s aerospace forces.