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Sputnik: Russia's Barguzin Nuke Trains Will Make Pentagon Think Twice About First Strike
Russia's defense industry is fully prepared to begin production of the Barguzin ICBM-carrying railway missile train, according to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin. Independent military analyst Vladimir Tuchkov outlines the secretive system's expected capabilities, and its implications for the global strategic balance.
In an interview for the RIA Novosti news agency earlier this week, Rogozin, whose portfolio includes the defense industry, confirmed that Russia's defense industries were in a state of "absolute readiness" to produce the Barguzin trains, along with the accompanying heavy 100-ton ballistic missile, pending a decision to include the weapons system in the state armaments program for the years 2018-2025.
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Update: Russia is planning a stealth NUKE TRAIN that can travel 1,500 miles a day as it struggles to get its ‘Satan 2’ weapon ready (Daily Mail)
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4 comments:
ICBM missile train. Everything old is new again.
What happens when the train is identified?
- Sats can follow the route
You Vuo,
You have to identify the car. You have to discern it and the train from lot's of decoys. It's not so easy. Plus if they are solid fuel their launch time is minimal, so it's hard to get a bead on one in time. They did this in the 70's and 80's, it was hard then, but with much much more rail infrastructure it's just that much harder.
The US Nuclear Triad is subs, silo's and SAC. US subs and SAC can go anywhere.
Russia's Nuclear Triad is subs, silo's and mobile launchers. Russian's sub's are limited to hiding in the Sea of Oktosk, and the Barent's Sea, where they can be somewhat protected from US Attack Subs. Their Road mobile missiles have become "easy" for US satellites to map, track and monitor. Missile train's as James noted, add an element of "hard to track and counter" to the Russian nuclear triad, that the US has in it's sub's and SAC.
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