{"id":125845,"date":"2026-05-13T18:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=125845"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:49:04","slug":"putin-hails-russias-test-launch-of-new-sarmat-nuclear-missile-calls-it-most-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/125845\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin hails Russia&#8217;s test launch of new Sarmat nuclear missile, calls it &#8216;most powerful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MOSCOW(National Times)-  Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the test launch of the new strategic nuclear missile Sarmat, describing it as \u201cthe most powerful in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State TV showed Sergei Karakayev, commander of Russia\u2019s strategic missile forces,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/79724\">reporting to Putin<\/a>&nbsp;on what he said was a successful Sarmat test-launch on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin said Russia will deploy Sarmat for \u201ccombat duty\u201d by the end of this year. The planned deployment of the missile \u2014 designed to deliver nuclear warheads to strike targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe \u2014 follows years of setbacks and delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin, in televised comments, said the yield of the warhead was more than four times greater than any Western equivalent and its range exceeded 35,000 kilometres (21,750 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt has the ability to penetrate all existing and future anti-missile defence systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe deployment of launchers equipped with the Sarmat missile system will significantly enhance the combat capabilities of the ground-based strategic nuclear forces in terms of guaranteeing the destruction of targets and solving strategic deterrence problems,\u201d Karakayev said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The test launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) comes months after the last treaty with the United States limiting their atomic arsenals lapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1971226\">ending<\/a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1585475\">New START agreement<\/a>&nbsp;in February formally released the world\u2019s two largest nuclear powers from a raft of restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western security analysts say Putin has made exaggerated claims for the capabilities of some of Russia\u2019s new generation of nuclear weapons, part of a modernisation programme he first announced in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarmat has seen failures in the past \u2014 one test in September 2024 left a deep crater at the launch silo, according to Western experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1676939\">start<\/a>&nbsp;of the Ukraine war in 2022, Putin has repeatedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1953329\">reminded<\/a>&nbsp;the world of the size and power of Russia\u2019s nuclear arsenal in statements seen by the West as attempts to deter it from intervening too strongly on the side of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW(National Times)- Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the test launch of the new strategic nuclear missile Sarmat, describing it as \u201cthe most powerful in the world\u201d. State TV showed Sergei Karakayev, commander of Russia\u2019s strategic missile forces,&nbsp;reporting to Putin&nbsp;on what he said was a successful Sarmat test-launch on Tuesday. Putin said Russia will deploy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Putin hails Russia&#039;s test launch of new Sarmat nuclear missile, calls it &#039;most powerful&#039; - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/125845\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Putin hails Russia&#039;s test launch of new Sarmat nuclear missile, calls it &#039;most powerful&#039; - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MOSCOW(National Times)- Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the test launch of the new strategic nuclear missile Sarmat, describing it as \u201cthe most powerful in the world\u201d. 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