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 ...