Russia’s Strategic Missile Force (SMF) is planning to activate the newest Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in 2022, the commander of the military service Colonel General Sergei Karakayev said in an interview with the Red Star newspaper : “The Uzhursk Missile Formation has already launched preparations for the rearmament of the leading missile regiment. [The Sarmat] is planned to be activated in 2022,” said Karakayev.
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| In March 2018, the new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile RS-28 Sarmat underwent an ejection test at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome (Picture source: Russian MoD) |

