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Russia Successfully Tests Stealth NUKE TRAIN: Blends In w/Locomotives (travels 1500 miles a day)
Daily Mail UK ^ | 14:59 EST, 23 November 2016

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: coldwar2; communism; russia; sovietunion
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To: FreeAtlanta

I like the bomber that brings its own escorts...

Quick question: How do the escort pilots get home?


21 posted on 11/23/2016 2:10:03 PM PST by lacrew
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To: drewh

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.


22 posted on 11/23/2016 2:14:49 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: lacrew

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.


23 posted on 11/23/2016 2:22:10 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: drewh

Bring back the W84 GLCM Mr Trump......


24 posted on 11/23/2016 2:23:07 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: drewh

We had plans for that - the Peacemaker.
IIRC BOTH nations signed an treaty against mobile ICBMs.


25 posted on 11/23/2016 2:24:14 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: entropy12

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.


26 posted on 11/23/2016 2:26:46 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: drewh

So does this mean a nuclear war with Russia would be bad? How many times can we kill each other?


27 posted on 11/23/2016 2:28:10 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: drewh

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.


28 posted on 11/23/2016 2:28:51 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Little Ray
I believe we are more at risk of nuclear annihilation by either Russia, China, North Korea or possibly Iran than at any other time in history.

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?

29 posted on 11/23/2016 2:30:49 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: Little Ray
The US Rail Garrison Missile program had a Peacekeeper (MX) missile loaded on a rail car with additional cars for refrigeration and other key support. The top of the rail car would open up, hydraulic ground supports were deployed, and the cold launch missile tube assembly popped out the top of the car.

The US built one working prototype.

30 posted on 11/23/2016 2:32:51 PM PST by caltaxed
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To: RegulatorCountry

I don’t know how I made it through that movie.


31 posted on 11/23/2016 2:35:46 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: caltaxed

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


32 posted on 11/23/2016 2:39:21 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Willie Green

Williegreen memorial hi-speed ping.


33 posted on 11/23/2016 2:41:19 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: drewh
Strelnikov!!!


34 posted on 11/23/2016 2:42:36 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: drewh

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.


35 posted on 11/23/2016 2:51:18 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: drewh

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.


36 posted on 11/23/2016 2:52:30 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Media were SuperPacs for Clinton. Throw them in prison.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

When nobody gets on or off ....


37 posted on 11/23/2016 2:53:00 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Media were SuperPacs for Clinton. Throw them in prison.)
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To: drewh

The real mission of the Polar Express


38 posted on 11/23/2016 2:55:31 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: drewh

Trump should propose nationwide nuclear powered high speed rail just so he can watch liberal heads explode.


39 posted on 11/23/2016 2:56:33 PM PST by MeganC (Ik ben Geert Wilders!)
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To: bigbob

The passenger version almost sank NBC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUERtAe73NI


40 posted on 11/23/2016 2:56:34 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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