MOSCOW, Sep 1 Russian missile «Sarmat» «could demolish the capital of Great Britain in six minutes,» writes Matthew Dooley, a columnist for the British newspaper Express.
According to the columnist, the new development of Russian engineers was deployed as a warning to the West.
«The missile is a monstrous nuclear weapon capable of sending up to 15 warheads anywhere in the world,» the author recalled.
Sarmat is a strategic missile system with a heavy-class liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile, the weight of one such missile exceeds 200 tons. The complex is designed to replace the Voevoda missiles in service with the Strategic Missile Forces. Earlier, the general director of Roskosmos, Yuri Borisov, announced that this system was put on combat duty.