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Russia’s new Sarmat ballistic missile ‘blows up during test launch’
Analysis of satellite images show 60-metre crater at silo suggesting a ‘catastrophic failure’ after ignition
Russia’s Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile – known in the west as Satan II – appears to have suffered a “catastrophic failure” during a test launch, according to analysis of satellite images.
The images captured by Maxar on 21 September show a crater about 60 metres (200 feet) wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. They reveal extensive damage that was not visible in pictures taken earlier in the month.
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