The UK is now a target for Russia's new hypersonic weapon, Russian media has suggested.
The 208-ton 15,880mph RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental missile is also known as 'Satan II' or the 'big beast'. It has been dubbed 'unstoppable' and will reportedly be brought into use this year.
"As it turned out, one Sarmat means minus one Great Britain," said pro-Putin TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov in a thinly veiled threat to the UK. The popular host - known as 'Putin's voice' - claimed the British had got "totally boorish", reported The Mirror.
Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency, had told told Solovyov that "we will have 46 combat complexes of strategic weapon Sarmat [Satan-2]."
"Everything is according to plan with us," he said. "They will go into the same silos where Voevoda [missiles are now deployed]. It is all according to plan…."
Last week, Vladimir Putin hailed the new weapon. He said: "This is a big, significant event in the development of advanced weapons systems of the Russian army.
“The new complex has the highest performance characteristics, and can break through all modern anti-missile defences. There is nothing like this in the world, and won’t be for a long while.
This truly unique weapon will be strengthening the combat potential of our armed forces. It will reliably secure Russia from external threats, and will force those trying to threaten our country in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric.”
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