‘World’s deadliest weapon’ explodes during testing in Russia

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‘World’s deadliest *******’ explodes during testing in Russia

A Russian missile touted as the “world’s deadliest *******” ******* to launch for the fourth time on Saturday, exploding as it was being refuelled at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome 500 miles north of Moscow.

Satellite images showed that the nuclear-capable

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, nicknamed “******-2”, left a crater on the launchpad, with damage visible to surrounding roads and buildings.

“The missile detonated in the silo, leaving a massive crater and destroying the test site,” said MeNMyRC, an open-source investigation project.

Four ***** engines photographed at the test site had been “responding to a forest *****” that was probably linked to the ******* launch, the project added.

“The Sarmat is a liquid-fuelled missile so this accident could have occurred separate from the actual launch activity,” it said.

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The ******* launch happened a week after a member of

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’s security council warned that a Sarmat missile could strike the

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in Strasbourg in under four minutes.

“For your information, the flight time of the Sarmat missile to Strasbourg is three minutes 20 seconds,”

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said in response to an EU vote that recommended allowing

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to strike Russia with

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The Kremlin has declined to comment on the incident but

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, a senior researcher at the ******* Nations Institute for Disarmament Studies, agreed that a Sarmat missile had exploded before a test launch.

“Looks like the Sarmat test was not quite successful, to put it mildly. It’s a big crater,” Mr Podvig said.

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The Sarmat missile on its only know successful launch, in April 2022 – Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service/AP

The Sarmat is known to have had only one successful launch, in April 2022.

The

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has promoted the Sarmat programme as its core nuclear missile, producing slick videos using computer-generated graphics showing it delivering ****** to hundreds of thousands of people on the other side of the world within minutes of being launched.

Vladimir ****** unveiled the missile in 2018 as a replacement for the smaller original “******”. It was intended to support his promise of nuclear war if his

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were crossed, although analysts have said that these threats appear increasingly empty.

“This is a sign that Russian manufacturing is seriously degrading,” said

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, a former Swedish prime minister and now co-chairman of the ********* Council on Foreign Relations think tank.

Designed as a “heavy” intercontinental missile, the Sarmat has a range of 11,100 miles and can carry up to 16 nuclear warheads.

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