The Russian nuclear train as a terrible rebus for the Pentagon What the general at a folding plastic tourist glass and the intercontinental ballistic missile bearing 10 nuclear warheads capable in a flash to wipe out any city of the world? In the early nineties this riddle nonplused not one delegation of the American military who managed to visit unmarked on one card railway station Vasilek near Kostroma. Today is ready to offer this rebus of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation again to colleagues from the USA, having announced the beginning of works on the fighting railway missile system (FRMS). Well forgotten old BZRK - a rudiment of cold war. The scarecrow which forced not one generation of the American military to live in concern from feeling of that the USSR will always have opportunity to strike a reciprocal and counter nuclear attack to America. Confidential object Cornflower and some more objects near Perm and Krasnoyarsk with the same innocent names hid base of the only fighting railway missile systems (FRMS) in the world. Ordinary trains - the same refrigerators, cars, a civil coloring. Only a skilled eye of railroader would note at once that unlike regular cars, on BZRK costs not four, but eight couples wheels. In cars there are no habitual windows. All of them are replaced with the simulators protected from within by an armored leaf. Inside, as well as in regular passenger trains, a compartment for officers and ensigns, reserved seat places for soldiers. There is a first-aid post, the dining room and rooms of psychological unloading. The structure consists of the locomotive, several passenger and commodity cars. With one essential nuance - instead of civil freights 3 SS-24 Scalpel ballistic missiles. Scalpel weighs more than 100 tons. Has the solid propellant engine and cuts on range in 11 thousand kilometers. Bears on itself 10 semi-megaton nuclear blocks of individual targeting. On each of rockets the system of overcoming of missile defense and high-precision system of targeting is installed. Actually, because of its accuracy in the West also appropriated to the rocket the name Scalpel as it intended for surgical opening of well protected objects of the opponent: underground bunkers, command points and mine installations of strategic missile systems. Under the contract of 1993 of the START-2 Russia removed all RT-23UTTH rockets from arms and destroyed them till 2003. For utilization of rocket trains on Bryansk the RVSN repair plant the special finishing line was mounted. Despite an exit of Russia from the contract START-2 in 2002, for 2003-2007 all trains and launchers, except two demilitarized and established as exhibits in the museum of railway equipment at the Warsaw station of St. Petersburg and in the Technical museum of AvtoVAZ were utilized. Today, against an aggravation of the Russian-American relations Moscow is ready to get again the trump capable seriously to complicate life of Washington - to revive the program of creation of the fighting railway missile systems (FRMS). Two tens years ago this weapon recognized inefficient and wrote off in junk. New BZRK as assure of command of Rocket strategic forces will be not only modern, but also superefficient. Creation of the rocket train - a fighting railway missile system, BZRK - will soon be resumed, - the deputy commander Rocket strategic forces on work with staff Andrey Filatov on air of Ekho Moskvy radio station declared. In Soviet period such trains bearing the Good fellow rockets did in Ukraine. Materializations of this idea will occur - it is necessary to expect, soon. In Soviet period depended on this complex much, and in the West caused badly hidden irritation that the Soviet Union has such type of weapon, - Filatov added. Earlier about renewal of the project and new rocket trains which can appear by 2019, reported sources in defense industry complex.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:29:49 +0000