This is John Batcher speaking to colleague AnatoleZAC who keeps the Russian Space Web.com

about the report that the Sarmat in a continental ballistic missile, Satan too it's called in Moscow, failed at the launch pad in Vastachny.

What this means, of course, is that the propaganda threat is subdued because, as Anatoly explains, there is no indication all systems on the Sarmat, Satan

2, have ever been successfully tested.

It blew up on the pad after popping up a little bit then fell back down to

earth and the fuel exploded. Here's Anatole to explain. The threat is not quite

ready for prime time.

More of this later.

Yes.

So essentially, because we're talking about strategic weapon,

we kind of have the, it's kind of never intended for real use except for a nuclear war.

So it plays very important role in propaganda war.

So officially, there was a number of statements from the Ministry of Defense where they claimed that the

missile that that particular system was deployed.

However, again, was it just for the public or it was deployed but still needed to have test flights most likely that's the case

because of course we know about only one or two fully integrated tests where the entire rocket, like again,

unlike just using the ejection system, or only one stage, one first stage engines.

We only know about one or maybe two

launches where entire rocket, all the stages and all the engines were used.

And of course, you don't have a weapon ready to go if only

part of it was tested.

If not there were no fully integrated test launch and the vehicle did not fly its entire

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