Russian media boasts of its new Satan II ICBM missiles’ devastating power

MOSCOW is set to unleash the ‘Son of Satan’ — the world’s biggest nuclear missile — upon an international community already reeling from the return of the Cold War.

The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is about to be deployed to Siberia where it will undergo testing and refinement. It is due to become fully operational in 2018.

It will replace the ageing R-36M2 Voyevoda ballistic missiles which were given the codename SS-18 “Satan” when they first entered service in 1988, at the height of the Cold War.

A recent release from Russian government news agency TASS states the Sarmat missile (which Western media has dubbed ‘Satan II’) is a heavy intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a payload of up to 10 tons.

Little is known about “Satan II” beyond such government statements. Russian broadcaster Zvezda recently boasted the RS-28 was capable of “wiping out parts of the Earth the size of Texas or France.”