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China Tests New ICBM from Railroad Car
Washington Free Beacon ^
| December 21, 2015
| Bill Getz
Posted on 12/22/2015 10:23:10 AM PST by QT3.14
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:23:10 AM PST
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QT3.14
To: QT3.14
Mobile. Meant to thwart an enemy with the ability to spy launch sites with satellites.
Who could that be...
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:26:32 AM PST
by
lacrew
To: lacrew
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.
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:28:41 AM PST
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hoagy62
(Timid Men prefer the 'Calm of Despotism' to the 'Tempestuous Sea of Liberty'. ~ T. Jefferson)
To: QT3.14
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 ...
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:30:26 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: QT3.14
Russians did the same thing during the Cold War
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:30:50 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
To: QT3.14
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:32:49 AM PST
by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
To: lacrew
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.
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:36:17 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: MNJohnnie
Russians did the same thing during the Cold War Still do. But nowadays the watchword in sea-rail-local transportation is intermodal. Club-K
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:36:35 AM PST
by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
To: hoagy62
Wasn’t it part of the MX concept too?
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:39:41 AM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: hoagy62
Lionel’s was successful. They’ve been selling them for years.
To: hoagy62
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.
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12/22/2015 10:40:55 AM PST
by
Southack
(The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
To: QT3.14
Thank you Bill Clinton /s
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12/22/2015 10:42:32 AM PST
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
To: QT3.14
I believe all the Chinese ICBM’s are mobile. Destabilizing first strike weapons.
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:47:01 AM PST
by
Williams
(Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
To: PIF
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:49:06 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: QT3.14
We debated that basing idea and worked the technology for this back in the 80’s.
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:49:54 AM PST
by
Hulka
To: Southack
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.
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12/22/2015 10:51:16 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: hoagy62
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.
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posted on
12/22/2015 10:59:06 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: QT3.14
Another gift from the Clintons.
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posted on
12/22/2015 11:11:50 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
12/22/2015 11:27:29 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Williams
"Destabilizing first strike weapons"
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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12/22/2015 11:40:00 AM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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