Posted on 12/22/2015 10:23:10 AM PST by QT3.14
U.S. intelligence agencies recently monitored a Chinese test of a new rail car-based long-range missile capable of hitting targets throughout the United States.
The canister ejection test of a DF-41 missile from a rail-mobile launcher was detected on Dec. 5 in western China, said defense officials familiar with reports of the test.
Few details were available on the DF-41 launcher ejection test.
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Mobile. Meant to thwart an enemy with the ability to spy launch sites with satellites.
Who could that be...
We were going to try that in the early 60’s with Minuteman missiles. Not sure why we didn’t get past the design stage.
More here on the history of the DF41 and on the test mentioned in this post. Brought to you curtsy of the leading Democrat candidate’s husband ... just wait an see what goodness she’ll bring you during her 8 years ...
Russians did the same thing during the Cold War
Chinese intelligence agencies recently monitored a U.S. test of a new travel trailer launched long-range missile capable of hitting targets throughout China.
The canister ejection test of a DF-41 missile from a travel trailer launcher was detected on Dec. 5 in Eastern New Jersey, said defense officials familiar with reports of the test. Using the cover of a Stuckey’s on I-95 the launch
was a complete success.
Still do. But nowadays the watchword in sea-rail-local transportation is intermodal. Club-K
Wasn’t it part of the MX concept too?
Lionel’s was successful. They’ve been selling them for years.
Securing thousands of miles of railroad track is tough to do, and if you fence it all off then you’ve just got one big military reservation as a target.
Likewise, unsecured railroad track is perhaps *not* the best place to be transporting live, road-mobile nuclear weapons.
Thank you Bill Clinton /s
I believe all the Chinese ICBM’s are mobile. Destabilizing first strike weapons.
We debated that basing idea and worked the technology for this back in the 80’s.
Securing track, if it needed to be done, wouldn’t be all that difficult. Not just trains can travel those tracks. Smaller vehicles can with an adapter called hyrail.
We were going to try that in the early 60’s with Minuteman missiles. Not sure why we didn’t get past the design stage.
Placing nukes onboard subs gives them the ability to range over 70% of the planet undetected. Any rail-based system it going to be limited to the installed track and difficult to conceal. Seems like it would also be a lot more difficult to secure the area around a rail-based ICBM from attack.
Another gift from the Clintons.
Hey Ben! Don’t need no stinkin reminders of the $#*&&^^$#!! traitor - him, Carter and Obama plus all the people voting for those stinkers.
But thanks anyway just makes me boil is all.
Except they only have 1-2 dozen that can hit the US. It would be foolish to launch them at us.
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