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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Here in America i think its those casino tour busses.
Weak link, on fixed path train tracks.
Simple. Develop a geosynchronous satellite with all Russian rail systems mapped in. ANY motion detected along these mapped rail roads and BOOM! Buh-bye..
Thi is funny, in time of war we nuke ALL the trains. Problem solved
How quickly they forget. Trains? Bring back ‘Star Wars.’
A nuclear powered freight locomotive would be more interesting
SSBNs work better at that “stealth ICBM” stuff.
Don’t forget...WE also toyed with the same idea with Minuteman missiles....
In the 1960’s.
WW-III began with Operation Masterdom
in Vietnam
on September 13, 1945
this concept
and
"hot" stuff.
The Russians are only fifty years late on this idea.
I guess they gave up on the nuclear missels on sailboats ..
when they couldn't figure out how to prevent the backblast from burning and sinking the ship !
Secret Trains!!! get your secret trains here.... Headline news, secret New Clear Trains!!!
Worst movie...ever.
100% impractical!
LOL! Cool poster, though.
"Retired Peacekeeper rail garrison car prototype at the USAF National Museum."
I wonder how far trains can go with gaps in the track every 25 miles? Right behind the engine...
I wonder if they have a attitude adjustment device for when the nuke car is upside down in the mud with ten cars on top of it.
P.S. Thanks Russia. Got it. Conventional cruise missiles already re-programmed.
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