OREANDA-NEWS The Russian strategic missile system RS-28 "Sarmat" with a heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has been put on combat duty. This was announced during the marathon "Share your knowledge" by the general director of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Yuri Borisov.

In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the strategic missile systems of the mine-based R-28 "Sarmat" will go on combat duty in the near future. In December 2022, the country's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported that work had begun in Russia to deploy these missiles.

In November of the same year, the head of the Viktor Makeev State Rocket Center (SRC), academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Degtyar said that the R-28 Sarmat complex had been put into serial production.