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recently, when russia's "sarmat" intercontinental ballistic missile was conducting an underground test launch at the plesetsk base, a violent explosion suddenly occurred on the ground, creating a large pit with a diameter of nearly 62 meters and destroying the entire launch site. fortunately, this "sarmat" did not carry a nuclear warhead at the time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. this incident immediately caused a great shock around the world.

(satellite photo of the explosion site)

main features of sarmat

"sarmat" is a new generation of heavy intercontinental missile developed by russia to replace the ss-18 "satan". its nato code name is "satan-2". it is 35.5 meters long, 3 meters in diameter, and weighs 208 tons.

the biggest feature of sarmat is that it uses a three-stage liquid rocket engine, with a range of up to 18,000 kilometers and a throw weight of up to 8 tons. the disadvantage is that the missile is huge and has poor safety.

the strategic nuclear missiles of the united states and france have eliminated liquid rocket engines and replaced them with solid rocket engines, which make the missiles smaller and lighter. china's dongfeng-5 also uses liquid rocket engines, but the latest nuclear missile dongfeng 41 uses solid rocket engines instead.