He said that “at present, industrial enterprises continue to set readiness for state flight tests of the Sarmat missile system.
“Already today, work has been launched in the Uzhur missile formation to prepare the head missile regiment for rearmament,” Karakaev said.
He added that "putting on combat duty is planned in 2022".
In December 2019, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the deployment of the Avangard hypersonic missile system on alert. During a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense, Putin said that Russia is ahead of other countries in terms of the development of advanced weapons - no one else has hypersonic weapons. The troops already have the Dagger and Peresvet complexes.