{"id":82889,"date":"2026-05-13T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82889"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:16:44","slug":"putin-hails-russias-test-launch-of-new-icbm-known-as-satan-ii-calls-it-most-powerful-missile-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/putin-hails-russias-test-launch-of-new-icbm-known-as-satan-ii-calls-it-most-powerful-missile-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Hails Russia&#8217;s Test Launch Of New ICBM Known As Satan II, Calls It &#8220;Most Powerful Missile In The World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>CBS News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russia on Tuesday test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile as part of efforts to modernize the country&#8217;s nuclear forces, a launch hailed by President Vladimir Putin just days after his claim that the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">fighting in Ukraine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is nearing an end.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said that the nuclear-armed Sarmat missile would enter combat service at the end of the year. It was built to replace the aging Soviet-built Voyevoda.\u00a0&#8220;This is the most powerful missile in the world,&#8221; Putin declared, claiming that the combined power of the Sarmat&#8217;s individually targeted warheads is more than four times higher than that of any Western counterpart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778663804\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Putin Hails Russia&#8217;s Test Launch Of New ICBM Known As Satan II, Calls It &#8220;Most Powerful Missile In The World&#8221;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBS News: Russia on Tuesday test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile as part of efforts to modernize the country&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82890,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82889\/revisions\/82890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}