Only 200 seconds to destroy Paris... What is the truth about the Russian Devil 2 missile?

According to a computer simulation of a program broadcast in the last days of last April on the Russian state channel 1, Russia has a missile that takes only 200 seconds to destroy the French capital, Paris, by bombing it with the last generation of nuclear warheads. What is the truth of that?

This is what the French newspaper Liberation tried to answer, revealing at first that the guests of this program, including representatives of the Russian parliament, editorial writers and newspaper columns, boasted about Moscow's striking capabilities against potential enemies of Russia and supporters of Ukraine.

She said the guests were commenting on a graph that appeared on a screen in front of them, and orange tracks could be seen against the background of a European map showing the capitals of NATO member states as locations where these missiles could fall.

In a report by its writer, Alexander Horn, on the CheckNews page, the newspaper stated that the Russian parliament member (Duma) Alexei Goravlev seemed very enthusiastic as he was promoting the use of the latest generation of these missiles known as "Sarmat", also called "Satan-2" missiles. 2".

As for the time that this ballistic missile is supposed to take to reach European capitals if it is launched from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad located in northern Poland, the displayed map showed that it does not need to bomb Berlin for more than 106 seconds, as for Paris, it needs only 200 seconds, and for London, the period is 202 seconds .

Commenting on this, the newspaper says that this information presented by Moscow State Television is not isolated, but rather is part of the Kremlin’s war speech on nuclear dangers, as it was promoted in another channel by the media Margarita Simonyan, who is close to the Kremlin and heads many Russian media outlets, including: That Russia Today and Sputnik, that in the face of defeat it is likely that eventually a nuclear strike will put an end to all that is happening, and “even if it seems horrible to me, but I realize, on the other hand, that for us our destiny will be heaven, and the others are only They will perish,” she said.

Liberation refuted the claim that the Sarmat missile can hit Paris in 200 seconds, as it is first still under development, and the first test to launch it was on April 20 last, and therefore it is not yet ready for launch, and the last test is not directly related to the conflict. Ukrainian, as the development of this new system has been going on for several years.

The newspaper pointed out here that statements by Russian officials at the end of 2021, published by the Russian news agency Interfax, already revealed Moscow’s intention to conduct future tests on the Sarmat missile, and that agency indicated that the specific goal of producing the first operational regiment of this ballistic missile is by the end of 2022.

The expert in the Russian army and its arsenal, Benjamin Graves, also denounced what was broadcast by Russia Today channel and the “delusions” it promoted about Sarmat, in a series of tweets in which he stressed that this missile, even if it is ready for launch, does not have the necessary infrastructure to launch it from the Kaliningrad enclave in particular. This expert mocked the way in which the time taken for such a missile to strike Paris was determined, saying that it had nothing to do with reality, as even the installation of nuclear warheads could not be done in less than 6 minutes, he said.

In fact, according to Liberation, Russia has a diverse and highly effective nuclear arsenal that it can use to strike Paris without any problem, whether through an ICBM launched from its territory, or from a submarine or even from an aircraft.

But how long will that take?

This is what the newspaper says that it is difficult to predict, as it varies according to the type of projectile used and the region from which it was launched, not to mention the ignoring of the promoters of these “supernatural” Russian weapons that the targeted countries also have nuclear weapons, especially France and Britain, and that a strike against any A member of NATO will necessarily lead to a reaction from the United States.