Russia Announces Upgrades To Nuclear Arsenal With New ‘Satan’ ICBM

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Russia will begin deploying a new type of long-range missile in 2018 to replace a cold war standby known in the west as ‘Satan’, a military commander said on Tuesday in a signal to the United States that Moscow is improving its nuclear arsenal.
A new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) called the Sarmat is being developed to supplant the RS-20B Voyevoda, the Interfax news agency quoted the commander of Russia’s strategic missile forces, General Sergei Karakayev, as saying. The new ICBM can easily reach the U.S.
“We are counting on being armed with this qualitatively new missile system … by 2018-20,” he said.
The Voyevoda, which is known within Nato as the SS-18 Satan, was developed in the 1970s and the missiles are approaching the end of their service life, although some of the ICBMs will remain in service until 2022.
The commander spoke on the anniversary of the creation of thestrategic missile forces in 1959, the military branch in charge of the ICBMs that were the stuff of nightmares in the US during the superpower standoff of the Soviet era.
President Vladimir Putin is insistent that Russia must maintain a strong nuclear deterrent, in part because of an anti-missile shield the US is building in Europe, which Moscow says could undermine its security.
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• Michael Stanley
  Hey that means with this upgrade they get a large fry, and a large soda too right?