The Russia Army will continue to deploy SS-18 Satan heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles until 2026.
“The extension of the service life of the systems equipped with RS-20V missiles will allow us to keep these most powerful missiles in the world until 2026,” Strategic Missile Forces lieutenant general Sergei Karakayev said.
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“At this point, there are no serious technical restrictions to continue extending the missile’s service life.”
The Satan missile, introduced 33 years ago, has a range of 11,000km with a launch mass of over 210t and a payload of 8.8t.
The missile is armed with a warhead containing ten multiple, independently targetable re-entry vehicles with a yield of 550-750kt.
Russia has 88 SS-18 missile silo launchers, most of them deployed at the Dombarovsky missile base in the Orenburg Region of the country, RIA Novosti reports.
