They have one of those cars in the USAF Museum collection at Wright-Patt.
Posted on 12/22/2015 10:23:10 AM PST by QT3.14
Pardon me if I don’t have a rosy picture of our future.
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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Wait, are we talking about the North Koreans now?
They have one of those cars in the USAF Museum collection at Wright-Patt.
Nope. It is extremely difficult to secure railroad tracks. Thousands of miles of track have to be protected wide enough that a sniper outside the secure perimeter can’t put an incendiary bullet into a liquid oxygen (or for MX, solid) fuel tank of a road-mobile ICBM.
Thousands of miles of track have to be defended against remote IEDs, contact mines, magnetic shift mines, and plain old rail damage (which can come from nature via falling boulders as easily as from an enemy).
Rail-mobile ICBM’s (MX) were studied in depth. Both rail-versions of the MX missile got canned for solid reasons (the “racetrack” option and the “rail-garrison” variant).
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