“This autumn, after the completion of flight design tests of the Sarmat, we plan to begin deliveries of serial heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles of this superweapon to the Strategic Missile Forces,” Rogozin wrote in Telegram.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a successful launch of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile was carried out at the Plesetsk cosmodrome from a silo.

The department noted that the new Sarmat missile is capable of hitting targets at long ranges using various flight paths. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Russian army on the successful launch of the Sarmat ICBM.