How strong is the Russian missile train? It makes Americans afraid to talk, and it can be called "Doom Scalpel! Many countries emphasize the so-called trinity nuclear strike system, and the only ones that can be used in real time are currently only the United States and Russia. However, in the face of the Americans' advantage of the number of nuclear weapons over Russia, Russia used its own characteristics to study a set of missile train . As a mobile nuclear strike hidden power, why did Russia adopt this method to ensure its nuclear strike power? Why does such nuclear strike power make Americans feel a headache or even scared to talk?
Russians' love and paranoia for railways can be said to be from railways one It started when entering Russia. Russia is a country with a very vast land area, especially the country has a very long span. This has made Russia have an extremely strong strategic depth when dealing with Europe and the United States. However, it also made Russia have a trouble in the past, that is, how to actively carry out an effective transportation of goods and personnel on this side for the vast land?
After the railway entered Russia, the Russians were extremely fanatical about the railway, which had a huge transportation capacity. During the First World War, the Russians even developed their fanaticism about railways and trains to the extreme, and even created two armored trains , which were full of weapons like "steel beasts". This kind of train was not equipped. It is equipped with a variety of artillery and machine guns, and is also equipped with extremely heavy armor. This kind of armored train can rely on railways to travel. Judging from the world situation at that time, the speed of this steel beast was far greater than that of cars and tanks of the same period. At the same time, since the carrying capacity of the train was stronger than that of cars of the same period, the armored trains had extremely strong and heavy armor. Russian armored trains played a very important role in World War I and the later Soviet war against foreign interference troops. This also made the bond between Russia and the railway deeper and deeper.
During the Soviet Union, the United States and the Soviet Union were constantly increasing the power of strategic nuclear strikes, which could destroy human buildings on the entire earth. During several rounds, the Soviet Union and the United States also racked their brains to hide their nuclear strike power to the greatest extent, ensuring that they still have the ability to counterattack when the other party launches a nuclear raid. Although the missile wells that launch nuclear bomb have been reinforced multiple times, these nuclear bomb wells will inevitably be destroyed for various reasons when they encounter multiple nuclear bomb strikes.
Although the Soviet Union had a large number of nuclear bomb launch vehicles, in the frozen soil of Russia's Siberian region, although various vehicles can be allowed to speed on it in winter, once it is summer, the frozen soil melts, will make various vehicles stick inside, and the heavy nuclear warhead missile vehicle, although it can barely drive under this situation, the speed is still too slow. Just when the Soviet military was at a loss, some people remembered the Russian armored train that was used in World War 1, so the Soviet Union had a flash of inspiration. Why didn’t they directly place strategic nuclear missiles on the train? The idea of
is actually very simple. The Soviet military first considered that Russia had formed a rotten land after the frozen soil melted in the Siberian region of , Siberia, and not only did it not allow the transport vehicles carrying strategic nuclear missiles to pass quickly, but if they just received the order to launch a missile during the journey, the rotten land that allowed vehicles to easily sink naturally could not support the missile vehicles to launch a strategic nuclear weapon. Then the railway with a very solid foundation and the train with extremely strong transportation power naturally became another option for Russia's strategic strike forces to preserve their own strength.
Of course, the initial behavior of deploying strategic nuclear missiles on trains seemed a bit stupid, because the huge size of the strategic nuclear missile at that time was impossible to allow the train to carry the missile directly and launch it immediately after receiving the order. To transport such a strategic nuclear missile at that time, the missile train needed to be driven to some specific launch stations, and then the nuclear missile carried on the train was assembled by crane equipment before it could be launched. Because with the missile technology at that time, a tactical nuclear missile with a range of more than 8,000 kilometers needed 6 cars to transport different parts of the missile. It is this kind of strategic nuclear missile hiding method that sounds a bit bulky and a bit dull. Why has it now become a powerful strategic deterrent that makes Americans scared of talking about it?
This is because in 1987, after years of research, the former Soviet Union finally developed a range of 10,000 kilometers and can be equipped with 8 to 10 sub-guided nuclear warheads. Each warhead has an explosion equivalent of 100,000 tons. Moreover, this ballistic missile can also release a holiday target when it is launched, making the US missile defense system unable to distinguish the authenticity of the target. This missile is called rt23 ballistic missile in Russia, and the Americans gave him a very appropriate nickname called scalpel. The final length of this ballistic missile is exactly the same as the length of the carriage of an armored train, but the main body of this missile does not have an fairing . Both ends of the missile are flat circular sections, which is the biggest compromise between Soviet scientists and the missile range to reduce the length of the missile.
However, the missile launch head must have a fairing, otherwise the huge resistance and the turbulence formed will not allow the missile to be launched normally. It has to be said that the Russians are really creative. Soviet military scientific researchers made a fairing for inflatable, which is made of special materials. In normal times, it is stored on the top of the rt23 missile. Once the missile is erected and entered the state of being ready for launch, the two air compressors on the top of the missile can inflate the upper fairing structure of the missile within a few seconds, so that the missile can be launched normally. What's even more fatal is that the size of this missile has been reduced to the size of a car. If a very ordinary locomotive is installed, even if there are satellites and other reconnaissance methods, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack on a large area of Russia's territory to find a missile train that is truly transported by RT23 ballistic missiles.
In 2005, due to the missile agreement signed by Russia and the United States in 1992, all Russian missile trains carrying RT23 were retired and demolished. The ability to name the name in the treaty to stop using the reverse train can understand the Americans' fear of him at that time. But the Americans have not been happy for a few years. In 2017, the Russian military announced that the missile train carrying the RS28 ballistic missile with a range of more than 16,000 kilometers was officially put into use and participated in combat duty. At present, the details of this missile are still a mystery. There is no doubt that this new era intercontinental missile, paired with a brand new missile train, will become the trump card of Russia's strategic nuclear power.
