Posted on 11/23/2016 1:44:39 PM PST by drewh
Russia is developing a secret nuke train, which can travel 1,500 miles in a day towards Putin's enemies before launching rockets. The trains, packed with ballistic missiles, will be disguised as ordinary passenger or freight trains, making them virtually impossible to identify.
Chilling test footage shows the trains can be stopped in their tracks at a moment's notice to deploy the huge rocket launchers. It sounds like something from a James Bond film, but the trains are one step closer to being put into use, following a successful test launch on missiles for the Barguzin 'railway-based combat rocket system', carried out at the Plesetsk cosmodrome two weeks ago.
The stealth mobile weapons platforms, which carries six Yars or Yars-M thermonuclear ICBMs and their command units, are expected to come into operation between 2018 and 2020. The menacing missiles carry four huge 250 kiloton warheads each, and have a range as long as 6,800 miles.
The missiles are normally launched from the road, but the nuke trains mean they will be able to travel further in much less time. The 'undetectable' deadly trains will be poised to strike at a moment's notice on the dawn of World War 3. Russian defence expert Victor Murakhovsky said the new trains would prove to be a 'sheer nightmare' for foreign spies.
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I like the bomber that brings its own escorts...
Quick question: How do the escort pilots get home?
Let’s say we have nuclear bombers that travel at around 500 mph.
Why, they could do 1500 miles in what....like three hours?
Wow.
Maybe, they would have to Doolittle it.
I don’t know that there would be much to come home to, after an all out nuclear war.
Bring back the W84 GLCM Mr Trump......
We had plans for that - the Peacemaker.
IIRC BOTH nations signed an treaty against mobile ICBMs.
Impractical? How? A constant ‘lock on’ of every train in motion along an already mapped path. Signal sent from satellite to weapons system with updated, real time coordinates. The Russians might be able to ‘get a few off’ but after that all ‘stealth trains’ AND ANY OTHER TRAINS would be obliterated.
So does this mean a nuclear war with Russia would be bad? How many times can we kill each other?
The Soviets/Russians have had mobile nuclear ICBMs (trucks) in the forests of Siberia for decades. Nothing new and as you know most trains don’t arrive on time, esp. on longhauls.
The ADTs are more of a threat (aka “Backpack bombs” or “suitcase bombs”).
So is a drunk Russian agent holding in a week-old Vodka fart.
BTW, when does Hillary get charged for divulging our nuclear launch cycle time DURING THE DEBATE?
HAS SHE BEEN STRIPPED OF ALL OF HER SECURITY CLEARANCES YET?
The US built one working prototype.
I don’t know how I made it through that movie.
We also had a plan for concealed (underground) rails on which to deploy the trains. The missiles would push aside the surface when it was raised.
Finally there was the midget man program.
https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/hml_03.jpg
Williegreen memorial hi-speed ping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacekeeper_Rail_Garrison
Sounds like an inferior version of the MX Rail concept.
The MX carried 10 W87 warheads of 300KT.
Each.
But even those were surpassed by the Navy’s Trident D5. And those are in service.
I can detect them with a couple thousand dollars of technology.
Surreptitiously place scales under tracks. Have the scales call home and tell us when the HEAVY NUKE LADEN trains go by.
Duh.
When nobody gets on or off ....
The real mission of the Polar Express
Trump should propose nationwide nuclear powered high speed rail just so he can watch liberal heads explode.
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