RUSSIA says its 16,000mph hypersonic Satan-2 missile which can fit 12 nuclear warheads and could destroy the UK will go into service within a year.<\/p>\n
The Kremlin will also significantly increase the number of test launches of its nuke-tipped rockets in 2022, amid fears its tensions with neighbour Ukraine could spark World War 3.<\/p>\n
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And the head of Moscows strategic missile forces Col-Gen Sergey Karakayev vowed to replace the Mach-27 capable Avangard hypersonic gliding unit by the time the West finds an antidote to it.<\/p>\n
This comes as images purport to show heavy weaponry suspected to be en route to a military field camp near the village of Klintsy in Bryansk region, some 28 miles from the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n
Vladimir Putin has amassed more than 100,000 troops near the border in a terrifying escalation of hostilities in recent months.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russia today marks its annual Day of Strategic Rocket Forces.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the Satan-2 weapon, also known as Sarmat, Col-Gen Karakayev said: \"Starting from 2022, it is planned to begin gradual removal of the heavy-class silo-based Voyevoda missile system and replace it with Sarmat.\"<\/p>\n
The 15,880mph weapon can deliver between 10 and 15 warheads that weigh up to 10-tonnes to any point in the world flying over both the North and South Poles, say the Kremlin.<\/p>\n
It has the capability to use trajectories and unpredictable routes which substantially impede their destruction even by advanced missile defence systems.<\/p>\n
Karakayev also vowed to keep developing hypersonic weapons - which move too fast for current missile defence systems - to stay ahead of the West.<\/p>\n
He said: \"We must understand this and do it and go further with hypersonic weapons.<\/p>\n
By the time they find an antidote, we must have found another solution to this.<\/p>\n
And today we are working on it. There are developments, there is work in progress.<\/p>\n
I think that this task is within our reach.<\/p>\n
Moscow also made clear that in the coming year it would launch more than ten intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) - rockets which can fly across the globe.<\/p>\n
This compares with a total of 25 such launches in the past five years, indicating a significant increase.<\/p>\n
Western leaders have warned Russia against the strategic mistake of invading Ukraine, threatening unprecedented sanctions against Moscow.<\/p>\n
New military movements highlighted by Zaspisky Okhotnika Telegram channel were interpreted as boosting forces with heavy weapons at military field camps near the village off Klintsy.<\/p>\n
Tanks are seen being moved by train. Russia has strongly insisted that it is entitled to move military forces on its own territory, and denied it intends to invade Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The West has expressed deep concern over the number of Russian forces in Voronezh region.<\/p>\n
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has insisted that her country has no aggressive intentions.<\/p>\n
We have repeatedly said that on our sovereign territory we have every right to move military units at our own discretion, she said.<\/p>\n
But she claimed that NATO is doing everything to destabilise the situation on the continent and undermine the foundations of European security.\"<\/p>\n
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