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Uzhur Division to be 1st in Russia to be rarmed wth Sarmat ICBMs – Missile Forces Chief

Moscow,Dec 17 (Sputnik)In 2021, the Uzhur division to become first in Russia to be rearmed with the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, Commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces Col. Gen. Sergei Karakaev said.
"Within the framework of the state armament program, the Russian industry is working on the creation of Sarmat, a new mine-based missile complex with a liquid-propellant heavy missile. Equipping the army with this missile complex is planned to begin in 2021 in missile regiments of the Uzhur division, which is now armed with Sarmat’s predecessor – the Voevoda missile complex," Karakaev told the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper in an interview.
"Pop-up tests of the [Sarmat] missile have been successfully completed .The infrastructure for flight tests at the Plesetsk cosmodrome is actively being created. In the near future, flight tests of the complex will begin, the successful implementation of which will allow starting mass production of its components," Karakaev noted.
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