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Russian armed forces will start taking delivery of new missile this year -Tass – Metro US

Russian armed forces will start taking delivery of new missile this year -Tass

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched during a test
The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched during a test at Plesetsk cosmodrome

(Reuters) – Russia’s nuclear forces will start taking delivery of the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile this year once testing is complete, Tass quoted the head of the Roscosmos space agency as saying on Wednesday.

Dmitry Rogozin said deliveries would start “in the autumn of this year,” it reported. Earlier in the day Russia said it had conducted a first test launch of the missile.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren)