Human Behaviour
Russia’s Sarmat ICBM was declared on combat duty before its flight-test record could support it; its Soviet predecessor went through years of sustained testing first, and the gap is less about engineering than about what ‘operational’ has come to mean inside a strategic-weapons bureaucracy
Russia announced on May 12 that the long-delayed Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile had completed a successful test from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and would enter combat duty later in the year.
