The Telegram channel said Borisov may also face a “backlash” over the much-trumpeted Oreshnik missile, used by Putin without a warhead in Ukraine last year - but not since amid suspicions it, too, is far from ready for effective deployment.
“Putin’s anger was primarily triggered by the complete failure in the production and deployment of the ‘Sarmat’ missile system, which was meant to replace the outdated ‘Voyevoda’ [Satan],” said the source.
An “absolute failure” with Vladimir Putin’s most powerful nuclear missile system is the key reason he fired his former close ally as Russia’s space chief, it has been claimed.
A source told Telegram channel VChK-OGPU - with security service contacts - that the key reason for Borisov’s axing was the lack of progress with Satan-2, known to Russians as Sarmat.
There was said to be a “deception” that this was a new missile, when it was actually a cobbled together “version of the Soviet-era intermediate-range missile system ‘Pioneer,’ known to NATO as the SS-20”.
