Russia's Secret Nuke Train - The RT-23 Molodets Program

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[michaelboyko]

This train is in the current display in St.Petersberg, Russia, It's exibited in the Raiway Transport Museum. This nuclear strike train is a masterpiece among a fantastic layout. Tickets cost really few.

[JackSparrow-hhlh]

extremely cool animation there, love the train heading through the snow

[avetl]

This was a very complex project involving mass modernization of USSR railway system - thousand km of railways reconstructed for these trains. Unbelievably, in the early 80s the first fiber optic networks were laid along the railroads to exchange information with High Command and provide exact location with hybrid navigation systems, special tracks were equipped to launch missiles and so on. This project was effective but very expensive.

[alanrogers]

The USA tried this with its "MX Missile" program where trains similar to the Soviet's version where several trains would always be on the move, thereby hiding them in plain sight. At the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio has parts of one of these train cars on display.

[lightspeedvictory]

One additional advantage of cold launch systems is that there’s a slight increase in missile range as the missile itself doesn’t need to waste fuel getting out of the silo itself

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-Super Tomcat-21 and ASF-14
-the NATF program as a whole
-early ATF proposals
-Sea Apache
-F-20 Tigershark
-Bae SABA
-Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Bomber proposal

[cascadianrangers]

Never understood why the movie Snowpeircer wasn't set in Russia or USSR, they are mad for trains, snow and the apocalypse

[nikitachirich]

Most of the training we had in the Soviet strategic special operations ( GRU number undisclosed) was to liquidate ( destroy or incapacitate) Chinese Dhungh Class nuclear ballistic systems that were train mobile platforms and usually located in heavily guarded mountain tunnels.

The idea was to use the steel jacket AK 47 round to disable the outer communications conus of the ballistic tip, rendering the system unguidable while fending off about 1000 - 3000 armed PLA guards with a team of about 7 men LOL plus the officer .

Our team would usually be assigned a KGB officer or a Spetznas lieutenant, he would be supplied with a portable NSZ style nuclear backback, the dialer would let you control variable yield up to about 20 KT. the Idea here was if you got close to the Chinese missile and it is not visibly refueling therefore not exposed to visible gunfire. The nuclear backpack could be setup to detonate in the vicinity you would have to be close enough to either seal the tunnel but hopefully liquidate the missile entirely.

The fallback plan would be that upon supposed "success" a helicopter will come to extract you in the morning.

though you are literally 1000 miles inland China, with a possible nuclear war taking place. LOL

[RexsHangar]

Dude, these animations are slapping! Awesome work :D

[captainpoptarts]

The editing quality keeps going up every time I watch. I didn't know anything about this train design/plan lol.

[antonburdin]

The train was heavy - extremely heavy. There were twice the regular number of railway carts, and yet rails could barely manage it. Derails plagued those trains and a rocket fuel for those rockets was very toxic as well.

[Sacto]

I think in the end, the Topol-M proved to be a better idea because you didn't have to depend on a railway network to move the missile around. And with Russia's own GLONASS satellites, the missile could get accurate target information without having to build specifically marked out forest clearings to launch the missile.

[harlander-harpy]

Amtrak has its own way of being stealth: never being on time and thus not where they're supposed to be because they don't get money they need and they can't punish the freight companies for fucking them over

[ziggyinc]

Your 3D models are OUTSTANDING!, kudos to your model team, they are doing really good work!

[mirthenary]

A problem I see with these trains is you wouldn't have to target every single train, even the civilian ones, you could just target the tracks

[sineapfel]

Such an amazing video about such a devastating tech.

[magicblockcraft]

just love the blender animations they look so smooth

[Cepia]

Found and Explanied rail edition? YES PLESE! And that animation looks so good!

[BoBaH_BoBaHoB]

That train also had "Perimetr" (Dead Hand) receiving antenna, like silo-based RT-23.

[angelomendoza]

The animated video of this Soviet ghost train travelling at high speed through snowy terrain, It's eerily looks like the scene from the movie Snowpiercer!!!

[captain_commenter]

*When Thomas the Train Engine has had enough:*