Since the advent of nuclear weapon , there are two main ways to put it into actual combat. One is the strategic bomber carried the nuclear bomb and flew over the target to throw it, such as the nuclear strike carried out by the United States in 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Another way is to install nuclear bombs on missile and launch missiles to strike targets. The former strike form has basically been eliminated, and almost all known nuclear-capable countries have adopted the nuclear missile strike method. Among the three launch methods, air-based, sea-based and land-based, land-based, land-based, is divided into silo launch, highway maneuver launch and railway maneuver launch. Not long ago, Russia announced the restart of the missile train project launched by railway motors. This statement once again put the entire Western countries hostile to Russia in a terrifying nightmare. In the last century, Russia's predecessor, the Soviet Union, once owned a train that launched nuclear missiles by motorized railways.
Speaking of the missile trains of the former Soviet Union, it was a nightmare for the whole of Europe. This type of train is generally composed of six to eight cars, and it looks no different from civilian trains in appearance. It can maneuver 1,200 kilometers per day and can stop and launch nuclear missiles at any time. Russia now has more than 17 million square kilometers of land, and the former Soviet Union is even more vast and has an area of 22.4 million square kilometers, which is much larger than the area of China and the United States. The railway transportation in the former Soviet Union was very developed and was a huge transportation system. With a mileage of nearly 150,000 kilometers, electrified railways rank first in the world. This provided very favorable conditions for the Soviet Union to develop missile trains.
During the Cold War, nuclear policies between nuclear powers, especially between the United States and the Soviet Union, were to ensure the destruction of each other. In addition to ensuring mutual destruction, we also need to have the ability to counterattack, which is what is often called secondary nuclear strike capability . How to ensure its secondary nuclear strike capability The United States and the Soviet Union have chosen different paths. Because the United States has the most powerful navy in the world, it focuses on the development of strategic nuclear submarine . The Soviet Union chose land-based maneuvering to ensure that its nuclear power survives after the first round of nuclear strikes. The missile train was born in this context. The concept of
missile train is actually very simple, which is to integrate the launch system of the nuclear missile into the train, making the entire train a mobile nuclear missile launch base, and can reach different regions to launch nuclear missiles at any time. This method makes it difficult for the opponent to destroy it in the first time. Missile trains are easier said than done. The launch system of a nuclear missile is a huge and complex system. It is conceivable how difficult it is to integrate it into a train. In addition, the safety of nuclear missiles is also an important issue during operation. You can't let it explode in your own country due to a fault, right? The idea of a missile train was first proposed by the United States. The US military had envisioned the single form of militia intercontinental ballistic missile launch from underground wells to derive the form of railway maneuver launch, which can ensure the survivability of land-based nuclear forces. However, the United States eventually gave up this plan, although there were many reasons, the most important thing was that it was limited by the technical level at that time. At the same time, the Navy's submarine-launched missile was successfully developed, and the United States focused on the development of more advanced strategic nuclear submarines, thus completely abandoning the development of missile trains.
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 The difficulty of developing missile trains is beyond imagination. The Soviet Union began to develop missile train projects in the 1960s, and it was not until 1987 that it first launched the first generation of missile trains. It took almost thirty years to go through.
The first batch of missile trains consisted of three fronts and six to eight carriages.The front of the vehicle provides power, and three cars are each equipped with an SS-24 intercontinental missile. Each missile can carry 10 nuclear warheads with equivalents of 100,000-350,000 tons, with a maximum range of 12,000 kilometers. One can razed half of Europe to the ground. In 1987, the Soviet Union deployed a total of 12 missile trains in actual combat for strategic duty. The difference between these missile trains in appearance and civilian trains is almost indistinguishable. They can maneuver 1,000-1,200 kilometers per day when on strategic duty. In addition to the train base, hundreds of culverts in the Soviet Union were their hidden places.
000 reconnaissance satellites are required to track a missile train around the clock. This is something the United States cannot do today. Just imagine, on the 22.4 million square kilometers of land of the former Soviet Union, 12 indistinguishable trains mixed with thousands of trains running every day, carrying 36 intercontinental missiles and 360 nuclear warheads, and what would it be like to have , NATO , including the United States, be there for these trains to be missing?
In the Soviet era, the United States could mobilize only 18 reconnaissance satellites. Whenever the missile train set off, the satellite soon lost its tracking target and searched for the tracking of the train. The most troublesome thing for the Central Command of the United States' strategic nuclear power. What comforts the United States and other Western countries is that the red Soviet Empire collapsed overnight four years later. Russia, which inherited most of the Soviet nuclear arsenals, was unable to maintain the operation of these missile trains and had to destroy them all.
missile trains, as a railway's maneuver launch method, have faster maneuvering speed, more stable missile transport process, and have a more concealed appearance as civilian trains. However, missile trains also have an insurmountable disadvantage, that is, once the railway is damaged during wartime, the train will be difficult to operate, and the bridges and railway subgrades to pass through need to be reinforced because the train weighs too much.
Nowadays, Russia's project to restart missile trains is still very difficult, because all the factories that made missile trains back then were in the current Ukrainian territory. After Ukraine decided to abandon its nuclear power, these factories had long been abandoned. Even if it could continue to produce Ukraine, there was no reason to produce nuclear weapons for Russia. This requires Russia to start construction from basic facilities, which is a huge and long project.
Among the nuclear powers, China also has railway maneuver launch capabilities. According to a report by CCTV in 2006, my country's strategic nuclear missile DF-31 is launched by the missile train. China's missile trains are more advanced than the Soviet missile trains of that year, and the trains can operate directly by using the existing railway network. In addition, China's missile trains can carry 5 DF-31 missiles, and the train can launch one DF-31 every 10 hours during the journey without stopping. Whenever you see a freight train passing by, it may be a missile train carrying 5 nuclear missiles. Therefore, it is the responsibility of each of us to maintain the safety of railway subgrade , and it is related to the safety of our thousands of households.
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