Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Project: The Last US Rocket Train

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In the early sixties, an attempt was made in the United States to create a combat railway missile system (BZHRK), armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles LGM-30A Minuteman. The Mobile Minuteman project ended with a test cycle, during which the positive and negative features of such equipment were established. Due to the complexity of the operation, the general cost of living and the lack of serious advantages over the existing mine-based missiles, the project was closed. However, after two decades, the US military and engineers returned to the idea, which, as it seemed, could significantly increase the potential of the land component of the strategic nuclear forces.



Theory and practice

The Mobile Minuteman project was primarily closed due to the high cost and complexity of the BZHRK construction. Nevertheless, some features of such systems still attracted the military. The main advantage of railway complexes was considered to be high mobility. Using the existing railway networks of the United States, "rocket trains" could disperse throughout the country and thus get out of the possible strike of missiles of a potential enemy.

In the eighties, American experts calculated the approximate survivability of BZHRK in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. 25 trains with intercontinental missiles, dispersed on the railway networks with a total length of about 120 thousand kilometers, would have been an extremely difficult goal for the enemy. Due to problems with the detection and destruction of a nuclear missile strike using 150 missiles, the P-36M was supposed to disable only 10% of the “rocket train” fleet. Thus, as stated, the promising BZHRK turned out to be one of the most survivable components of strategic nuclear forces.

Naturally, the project should have a number of problems. The new BZHRK, like the Mobile Minuteman, was supposed to become quite expensive and difficult from a technical point of view. During the development it was necessary to solve a number of specific problems associated with both the rocket used and various ground-based weapons. However, the US military again wished to receive a rail-based missile.

According to some information, one of the prerequisites for the creation of a new project BZHRK was intelligence information received from the USSR. Since the early seventies, Soviet specialists have developed their own version of the "rocket train", which is why the Pentagon wanted to get a similar system with similar characteristics, designed to ensure parity.

Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Project: The Last US Rocket Train


Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Project

In December, 1986, it was announced the start of work on a new project to create a combat railroad missile complex. As in the case of the previous similar project, it was decided not to create a new rocket for the complex, but to use the existing one. At that time, the USAF mastered the new LGM-118A Peacekeeper rocket, which they proposed to use as weapons for the new "rocket train". In this regard, the new project was named Peacekeeper Rail Garrison ("Peacekeeper rail-based"). A number of leading US defense companies were involved in the project: Boeing, Rockwell and the Westinghouse Marine Division.

It should be noted that at the early stages of the project, some alternatives to the “classical” BZHRK were considered. So, it was proposed to make a mobile missile system on the basis of a special chassis, which could ply on highways or go off-road. In addition, the possibility of building protected shelters across the country, between which the “rocket trains” were supposed to run, was considered. As a result, it was decided to make a train with special equipment disguised as civilian freight trains. BZHRK Peacekeeper Rail Garrison had to ply on railways and literally get lost among commercial trains.

The necessary composition of the complex was determined rather quickly. In the head of the “rocket train” there should have been two locomotives of the required power. The published figures in this capacity are the GP40-2 diesel locomotives of General Motors EMD. Each complex was supposed to carry two missiles in special cars. In addition, it was proposed to include two crew cars, a control car and a fuel tank. Such a set of elements of the complex made it possible not only to carry out the assigned combat missions and launch rockets, but also to be on the voyage for quite a long time.

The selected LGM-118A rocket did not differ in small dimensions and weight, having a length of about 22 m and a starting weight of the order of 88,5 t. Such weapon parameters led to the need to create a special car-launcher having a special design and relevant characteristics. It was necessary to ensure the possibility of transporting the rocket in the transport and launch container, as well as raising the container to a vertical position and launching the rocket. At the same time, the car had to have acceptable indicators of the load on the track and not have serious unmasking differences from other vehicles. The development of the car was carried out by specialists from the Westinghouse and St Louis Refrigerator Car Company companies.

Because of the weight and size of the rocket, the launcher wagon turned out to be rather large and heavy. Its weight reached 250 m, the total length was 26,5 m. The width of the car was limited by the permissible size and was 3,15 m, height - 4,8 m. Externally, this element of the complex was planned to make it look like standard covered freight cars. To ensure an acceptable load on the road in the design of the car-launcher had to use four trucks with two wheel pairs on each. Despite all the efforts, the launcher of the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison complex had noticeable differences from the coaches that existed at that time. The carriage with the rocket was larger and had a different chassis that distinguished it from the standard cargo "brothers".



Inside the car-launcher it was proposed to place the rocket transport and launch container with hydraulic jacks, as well as a set of special equipment. In preparation for the launch, the equipment of the car had to open the roof, lift the container to a vertical position and perform other operations. The rocket had to be pushed out of the container with the help of the so-called. powder pressure accumulator (mortar start), and the first stage sustainer had to be turned on already in the air. Because of this method of launching, special supports were provided in the car’s structure, located on the bottom and designed to transmit a recoil impulse to the rails.

The BZHRK Peacekeeper Rail Garrison crew was to consist of an 42 man. Locomotive control was assigned to the driver and four engineers, four officers were to be responsible for launching the missiles. In addition, it was planned to include a doctor, six technicians and guards from 26 people in the crew. It was assumed that such a crew would be able to keep a watch for one month, after which it will be replaced by other military personnel.

The ammunition of the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison complex was to consist of two LGM-118A Peacekeeper missiles. Such weapons made it possible to attack targets at a distance of up to 14 thousand kilometers and deliver enemy units with an 10 or 300 power unit capacity to enemy targets up to 475. Thus, the planned construction of 25 “rocket trains” made it possible to keep on duty up to fifty intercontinental missiles ready for immediate use.

Some sources mention that the composition of the “rocket train” could change according to the situation. First of all, it concerns the number of cars with missiles and other elements of the complex, directly related to the performance of combat missions.



Testing in practice

The construction of an experienced Peacekeeper Rail Garrison began with the refinement of locomotives. Two GP40-2 and GP38-2 locomotives were taken for use in tests. To protect the crew, diesel locomotives received armored glass as well as larger capacity fuel tanks. St Louis Refrigerator Car Company built and transferred to Westinghouse two special cars in which it was planned to place the launcher units.

At the very end of the eighties, when the project of a promising BZHRK reached the construction of experimental equipment, the US military began to make plans for the further purchase of serial equipment and the deployment of new units. The Peacekeeper railway-based complex was supposed to be put on duty until the end of 1992. Already in the 1991 fiscal year, it was planned to allocate 2,16 billion dollars for the construction of the first seven serial "rocket trains".

It was proposed to build the built trains between the 10 air force bases, where they were supposed to stay until the corresponding order was received. In the event of a worsening of relations with the likely adversary and an increase in the risks of the outbreak of war, the trains had to go to the railroad networks of the United States and ply them before receiving an order for launch or return. The main base BZHRK Peacekeeper Rail Garrison was to be the object of Warren (Wyoming).

The construction of the car-launcher was completed in the autumn of the year 1990. In early October, he was taken to Vandenberg Air Base (California), where the first equipment inspections took place. After completing all the work at the air base, the car was sent to the Railway Testing Center (Pueblo, PCs, Colorado). On the basis of this organization, it was planned to conduct running and other tests of new equipment, as well as to check it on public railways.

The details of the tests at the Vanderberg base and at the Railway Research Center are unfortunately not available. Probably, the specialists were able to identify the existing shortcomings and pass on the information about them to the project developers so that they could correct the shortcomings. Trials continued until 1991.

In the early nineties, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the leadership of the Pentagon began to revise its views on the development of the armed forces in general and the nuclear triad in particular. In the updated plans there was no place for combat railway missile systems. In the new conditions, such a technique seemed too complicated, expensive and almost useless due to the absence, as it seemed then, of threats from a potential enemy in the person of the USSR. For this reason, the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison project was stopped.

The prototype of the car-launcher used in the tests, for some time was at one of the bases of the US Air Force. His fate was decided only in 1994 year. Due to the lack of prospects and the impossibility of continuing work on the project, the experienced car was transferred to the National Museum of the United States Air Force (Wright-Patterson base, pieces of Ohio), where it is still located. Anyone can now see the result of the last American project BZHRK.



On the materials of the sites:
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  1. +10
    20 January 2015 07: 40
    And we have "Well done". Unique train. The bastards, led by Misha Mechenym, began the destruction of this unique train, and Borya-Glass completed it.
    1. -17
      20 January 2015 07: 57
      Quote: noncombant
      And we have "Well done". Unique train. The bastards, led by Misha Mechenym, began the destruction of this unique train, and Borya-Glass completed it.

      did the right thing, a waste of money ...
    2. +7
      20 January 2015 08: 04
      Quote: noncombant
      The bastards, led by Misha the Sword, began the destruction of this unique train, and Borya-Stakan completed.

      In fact, the last trains were cut by Great Pu when he already had every right not to cut them.
      Russia left START-2 in 2002, trains were cut in 2003-2007.
      1. +11
        20 January 2015 08: 50
        Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Project: US Last Missile Train

        To begin with, the train, as such, did not exist in the United States.
        The ebony with the Myrykan BZHRK resembles SDI. Many intentions, a lot of gestures, but the results are deplorable.
        To begin with, at the beginning of the 91st, the Americans stated that they had fully conducted a comprehensive test of their BZHRK.
        Those who were in the subject were quietly perplexed, for the confirmed data indicated that "the horse did not roll around" in this program.
        But someone Gorbachev believed immediately and irrevocably.
        History has put everything in its place.
        The only test attempt from a railway launcher did not take place and was replaced by a "throw test", that is, a mortar launch of a mass-dimensional ICBM model. According to the available data at that time, the results of the throw were deplorable. The carriage and the track underneath were deformed.
        The missile was not modernized for a mobile launch to preserve the composition and paths, there were not even tests on the stability of the missile to real vibration and shock loads as part of the BZHRK, and no guidance system was developed to launch from anywhere in the route.
        Comprehensive resource and transport tests of the BZHRK with the MX missile were not carried out with the output to the railways and the training of combat training tasks.
        As a result, this pepelats turned out to be a fake.
        Stormy applause!
        1. +1
          20 January 2015 12: 54
          Quote: Wheel
          As a result, this pepelats turned out to be a fake
          Loud applause

        2. +1
          20 January 2015 14: 27
          In fact, tests of a train with a mass-dimensional layout were carried out, including resistance to various loads. The train was. He traveled on the roads of the United States, and openly. Even his photographs were in the newspapers. But once they decided that it was expensive - and closed the program.
          1. +2
            20 January 2015 20: 55
            Quote: greshnik80
            In fact, tests of a train with a mass-dimensional layout were carried out, including resistance to various loads. The train was. He traveled on the roads of the United States, and openly. Even his photographs were in the newspapers. But once they decided that it was expensive - and closed the program.

            Rolled layouts, if Che.
            Even the composition of the train with the amers was not determined.
            In total there were three withdrawals of the train on the roads of yuseriya, all in the first half of the 88th. The ability of the web to withstand the existing weight was tested mainly. Nobody checked the vibrational and impact stability of the rocket, because launch cars were bluntly loaded with ingots.
            And beautiful pictures are taken by Myrikans masters.
            There are so many pictures of the F-35 taken, but normally the bird does not fly ...

            As for the high cost, it is not the point.
            It's just that Gorbach leaked our BZHRK and the yusers calmed down, especially, as I said, except for show and self-advertising, the "partners", in fact, had nothing.
        3. +3
          20 January 2015 15: 24
          Quote: Wheel
          As a result, this pepelats turned out to be a fake.

          fake?
          1. "Peacekeeper Rail Garrison" started 1986, canceled ONLY January 1992 (President Bush)
          DOD was in full swing, the program miraculously avoided stopping in 1988 due to funding cuts
          2. Laying the construction of 25 and USAF special trains






          and FY for the production of 50MGM-118A

          3. A small version of the ICBM (SICBM) was manufactured and launched (successfully) in April 1991, in Vandenberg AFB and the BG simulator reached its goal at the Kwajalein training ground.


          4. Peacekeeper Rail Garriso service vehicles manufactured and tested
          5. The main location of the AB was determined: Warren AFB, engineering work was carried out for the first installation of the garrison.
          6. An environmental impact assessment was carried out (and its results accepted):
          social security and utilities, transport, land use, agreed: cultural, biological "conjugation", good from the water industry, geologists, air quality and noise.
          In addition, national economic implications, transport impacts on national railways, and safety considerations are examined. Finally developed mitigation measures that may be affecting the environment.
          1. +2
            20 January 2015 20: 20
            Quote: opus
            fake?

            fake!
            They had to saw with a jigsaw for another 10-15 years.
            I will not spread my thoughts along the tree, noting only one small nuance of the fact that "a small version of the ICBM (SICBM) was manufactured and launched (successfully) in April 1991" for testing turned out to be a full-time MX without any modifications. (The test report with the photo attachment was on my desk two days after the launch, the video - a week later).

            Next on the list.
            According to paragraph 10 b) of Article III of the Treaty, the American side declared the MX missile with the existing types of ICBMs for mobile launchers (the performance characteristics for the railway version of the missile were not indicated), noting that the mobile version of the missile was not deployed. In accordance with section II, item b) and Appendix A of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of Baseline Data in Connection with the Treaty between the USSR and the USA on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, the Americans presented: the number of missiles and warheads of the BZHRK - 0; their throw weight is 0; non-deployed mobile launchers - prototype only; test launcher - 1; stationary construction for mobile launchers - no; transport and handling facilities - 1; MX non-deployed missile at the firing range - 1. No photographs of the launching car or other means according to Appendix J (in the order of mutual exchange) were presented.
      2. +3
        20 January 2015 11: 50
        In fact, the last trains were cut by Great Pu when he already had every right not to cut them.


        Who would serve them? They made rockets on the southerly machine!
        1. +3
          20 January 2015 20: 22
          Quote: neri73-r
          Who would serve them? They made rockets on the southerly machine!

          And the same would serve who from 92nd to 03. (and these were not Ukrainians)
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  3. +5
    20 January 2015 08: 04
    The good news is that our BZHRK are reviving. So that they do not shout abroad about the aggression of Russia, we must have weapons capable of cooling some hotheads in Washington.
  4. +2
    20 January 2015 08: 33
    "Well done" is no longer good, for it is outdated. New BZHRK will be developed and built on the basis of the latest achievements of military science and technology.
    1. +7
      20 January 2015 08: 52
      Quote: Bayonet
      "Well done" is no longer good, for it is outdated. New BZHRK will be developed and built on the basis of the latest achievements of military science and technology.

      It is not out of date.
      The trouble is that the missiles were made on Yuzhmash.
      1. +1
        20 January 2015 10: 57
        Quote: Wheel
        He is not out of date

        BZHRK - RT-23 UTTKh Molodets military railway missile system (NATO's SS-24 Scalpel classification) was put into trial operation in 1983. Agree, in 32 years a lot has changed, science does not stand still ...
        1. 0
          20 January 2015 21: 19
          Quote: Bayonet
          BZHRK - RT-23 UTTKh Molodets military railway missile system (NATO's SS-24 Scalpel classification) was put into trial operation in 1983. Agree, in 32 years a lot has changed, science does not stand still ...

          I agree, science is not worth it.
          She's been lying lately.
          Lies to the point that our "sworn partners" are still in service with Minutemans, developments of the late 60s.

          Nothing personal! hi
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    3. 0
      20 January 2015 20: 17
      "Well done" is no longer a good fellow, for it is outdated. '' Any weapon will someday become obsolete.
  5. -3
    20 January 2015 10: 10
    Again a hackneyed topic and hints of some modern technologies that have yet to be developed, but which will certainly make the BZHRK a super duper weapon .... years ago 20 30. .
    The train has already left, guys. Technologies have been developed for a long time to detect BZHRK and distinguish it from the background of hundreds of other trains. And having selected to block its movement (which is not so difficult to do on the railway) and destroy it, the more so since it is unlikely to cover it with reliable air defense / missile defense without unmasking the BZHRK itself. In general, history has more than once proved that there is no such poison that could not be found antidotes and success in the war is determined not only and not so much by weapons as by the ability to correctly use it. Therefore, to pump very limited money into another wunderwafel and the infrastructure providing its combat use, storage, repair, etc.
    1. rinno_ss
      0
      20 January 2015 17: 36
      very agree
    2. c3r
      +4
      20 January 2015 17: 59
      Well, tell us, dear, about these latest developments "allowing to detect BZHRK and distinguish it against the background of other hundreds (or thousands) of trains" moving along a railroad track (this is in the Russian Federation) 85 km, across the territory of Russia from the west to the east is more than 281 thousand km, and from north to south - from 9 to 2,5 thousand km. And if you try to calculate the probability of detecting a train about 4 km long, then you can go crazy. And do not forget that even wheeled launchers, which have much worse camouflage than railway ones, are currently a big problem for our "friends" in terms of detection. Don't do unscientific fiction. And the prodigy is an energy cannon on American ships, that's where the waffle is so the waffle! fool
      1. -1
        21 January 2015 08: 53
        Let's start with the fact that these "newest" developments are already 30 years old and the ideas underlying the developments are 70.
        In particular, both in the USSR and in the USA in the 70s and 80s, the development of radar systems using the so-called. turbine or propeller effect, discovered back in the late 30s, allowing, based on the analysis of the low-frequency (sound) component of the spectrum of the reflected radar signal, it is relatively easy to compile a catalog of individual "sound" portraits of potential targets containing turbines, internal combustion engines, i.e. cars. planes, trains, etc., and then highlight the targets of interest against the background of others.
        This we are talking about the sound portrait (signature) of the target, in this case, BZHRK.
        But similar "portraits" are available for these targets in other wavelengths, for example, infrared. And by combining these portraits, it is possible with a very high degree of probability to detect and identify the BZHRK (unless, of course, he is hiding in one of the tunnels). Yes, and there you can discreetly throw a couple of seismos and other sensors if you want. So you can, of course, spend a lot of money again, hoping to get another "wunderwaffe". But history has proved more than once that any "wunderwaffe" can be covered with a "copper basin" if desired. There is no doubt that a potential adversary will have such a desire, especially since foreign opponents have long been in a hurry and tried to record portraits inherent in BZHRK in various wavelengths as soon as they were given such an opportunity. And she was provided to them more than once. This is what concerns the detection and identification of the BZHRK.
        Well, it’s easier to block the BZHRK after it is detected at a certain crossing or railway station. Considering that the railway traffic control systems have an extremely low degree of information protection, it will not be difficult to crack even a mediocre hacker, not to mention special units of cyber war created in the US Armed Forces and their allies. Let us recall, at least, how the Israelis managed to carry out cyber attacks on Iran’s uranium enrichment process control systems. But these systems had a much higher degree of protection than railway traffic control systems, especially in Russia where many of these systems have long been retired.
        1. c3r
          -1
          21 January 2015 13: 17
          A small technical question, and what has to do with the radar if the Radar station (radar), radar (English radar from radio detection and ranging) is a system for detecting air, sea and ground objects, as well as for determining their range, speed and geometric parameters. using the radiation of radio waves and registration of their reflections from objects. How are you going to detect them if the radiation of low frequency waves is not directional, but if there are obstacles (hills, mountains, forests) that will scatter the wave (here a direction finder is needed, and for greater accuracy, not one). Follow the link http://topwar.ru/37817-akusticheskie-sistemy-opredeleniya-vystrela.html there is a detection range for a shot, for a diesel engine it is not much more (in any case, you will not hear from Europe and America) And don't you think that idiots work in the Russian special services, that you can "unnoticeably plant a couple of seismos and other sensors if you wish" on the route of such a train and even more so block it? In addition, do you seriously believe that if the BZHRK are built, then the old element base (already listened to and recorded) will stand on them?
          1. -1
            21 January 2015 13: 32
            And you are aware that radars of various types, including high resolution, are installed on airplanes and satellites. This is the time.
            Secondly, I do not need to talk about the basics of radar. This is exactly the area that I have been studying for 30 for years and I continue to be interested in it now. So that with the theory, and with materiel is familiar quite tightly. And in the course of what modern radar can and what is not yet.
            And finally. No matter how smart people work in the Russian special services, they are not able to control the entire route along which the BRD will move, even if there is an employee of this special service on every kilometer. In addition, they are not fools in foreign secret services either, and they have enough money to bribe a couple of three railway employees.
            1. c3r
              0
              21 January 2015 15: 28
              Aircraft and satellites are destroyed first. And special services officers do not stand on each kilometer in a different way. And if you are strong in the basics of radar, then do them, and tell fantastic stories about listening to sound waves from a locomotive (and if it is an electric locomotive?) With the help of radar, you do not need to, no one has an understanding of the basics of radar.
              1. 0
                21 January 2015 16: 16
                I give up. I must admit that the attempt to explain to you certain subtleties of target recognition, including using radar, was unsuccessful. Gray is invincible. And equally peremptory. With what I congratulate you
                1. c3r
                  0
                  21 January 2015 19: 33
                  Maybe dullness, but not stupidity. I have never carried out target detection by sound or by the devices emitted by this target, radio and other waves using radar stations, both Russian and foreign. The radar station sent the signal to the target and, having received the reflected signal, gave information about the target - this is radar, and when the station received a signal belonging to the target equipment, this is direction finding, or reception (for greater accuracy, it is better to use a larger number of receivers). By the sound of the engine, you can only track the target and then from a relatively short distance. Here are all the subtleties about which you are not "dull" with 30 years of experience, you have never mentioned, and by the way, low-frequency radars work according to the first principle. Please accept my congratulations! hi
                  1. 0
                    22 January 2015 11: 18
                    I do not know with which radars (domestic or foreign) you were closely acquainted and to what extent. Judging by your comments, the knowledge of r / l technology was very superficial. It was
                    I meant the so-called turbine or propeller effect in which the radar signal REFLECTED from the target is modulated by a low-frequency envelope formed by turbine engines and the like vibrating products that are part of the observed target.
                    Naturally, not all radars are able to isolate this low-frequency envelope and ensure target recognition by its "sound portrait. Below I gave a link to T.I.Shelomentsev http://www.vko.ru/sites/default/files/images/pictures/ library / 070827_01 / 016.pdf,
                    who, with his team, was able to develop hardware and software that, when used in conjunction with suitable types of radars, are capable of providing such target recognition (rather than sound direction finding).
                    I understand that ordinary radars could not have been trained in such technologies, but not knowing something does not mean that it does not exist. And one does not need to attack one who knows a little more than you with his ignorance, for this is no longer just grayness (which is also stupidity), but militant grayness. A militant gray is much more dangerous just gray. In a pinch, google and you will find some materials on this topic,
                    1. c3r
                      0
                      22 January 2015 16: 41
                      I heard about this, but they try to get rid of this effect in standard radars. Your link was a little incomprehensible about what it was about, and googling gives low-frequency radars, but not what you are talking about. Regarding dullness: I may not know such subtleties in radar, but I know for sure that aircraft and detection satellites eliminate in the first place, and any mobile launchers are always a problem for the enemy, especially in such a large territory! hi
                    2. ACKiPaPa,
                      0
                      5 February 2015 01: 53
                      Uh-uh, I'm afraid to seem ignorant, but this method of detection, as far as I remember, has one small drawback, namely, the object must be irradiated directly, i.e. "shine" directly into the turbine nozzle, or at least irradiate a working object in order to obtain the appropriate signature, or there will be nothing / nothing to bend and vibrate, and the BZHRK ICBM is not transported in an active state, + shielded by the roof of the PU carriage and, at the end, Finally, we have that few civilian generators (in fact, the same turbines) roll around the country ... And if there is a turbojet engine on a rocket? ...
    3. 0
      20 January 2015 20: 33
      Quote: gregor6549
      Technologies have been developed for a long time to detect BZHRK and distinguish it from the background of hundreds of other trains. And having selected to block its movement (which is not so difficult to do on the railway) and destroy it, the more so as it is unlikely to cover it with reliable air defense / missile defense without unmasking the BZHRK itself

      Do not share with the ignorant what kind of supertechnology you are especially interested in blocking, and about detection too.
      1. 0
        21 January 2015 12: 18
        Already shared. See above. Here, the truth is the question of how much what he shared will reach the "ignorant". I would also recommend following the link http://www.vko.ru/sites/default/files/images/pictures/library/070827_01/016.pdf and find T.I. Shelomentsev (now deceased).
        Shelomentsev T.I. was one of the Soviet scientists who developed technology and equipment for recognizing targets of various classes by the low-frequency (sound) component of the reflected radar signal. He was also the founder and head of SKB "Kamerton", which was at one time a structural subdivision of NPO Agat (Minsk). The target recognition methods developed at SKB Kamerton were protected by a number of international patents, not to mention a huge number of USSR copyright certificates, and the equipment developed on the basis of these methods was successfully introduced into a number of military and civilian products, for example, for remote contactless diagnostics of internal combustion engines. aircraft turbines, etc. And all this was developed in the mid 70s and early 80s.
        Well, where is the fantasy, dear "ignorant"? Maybe you need to take a closer look at your own history, including the history of Russian science and technology. Maybe the poison in the questionnaires will diminish then.
  6. 0
    20 January 2015 10: 56
    Olepyatka ... years commercials 20. Xnumx
  7. +1
    20 January 2015 14: 52
    Article plus. It is intelligible and interesting. In my opinion, missile trains with the MX, as well as the Midiment mobile soil complexes, were not developed for only one reason: the USSR, as a likely adversary, ordered a long life, and under the current conditions the Ohio SSBN was quite abundant. Believe me, if the need arose, the United States would have adopted both railway and ground mobile complexes.
    1. rinno_ss
      +1
      20 January 2015 17: 38
      100% here I can’t understand many who think and believe that some stupid people are sitting across the ocean and I don’t know fucker .... such thinking is initially losing
      1. 0
        20 January 2015 21: 33
        Quote: rinno_ss
        100% here I can’t understand many who think and believe that some stupid people are sitting across the ocean and I don’t know fucker .... such thinking is initially losing

        No one says that all of us are dumb sitting across the ocean.
        Trident-2 very successful came out.
        And they had a worthy Titan.
        Everything else is much sadder with the rest.
        Hmm, and we at one time, spurred on by their self-promotion, sculpted what they could not afford.
        What's wrong?
  8. +1
    20 January 2015 17: 49
    Quote: gregor6549
    Again a hackneyed topic and hints of some modern technologies that have yet to be developed, but which will certainly make the BZHRK a super duper weapon .... years ago 20 30. .
    The train has already left, guys. Technologies have been developed for a long time to detect BZHRK and distinguish it from the background of hundreds of other trains. And having selected to block its movement (which is not so difficult to do on the railway) and destroy it, the more so since it is unlikely to cover it with reliable air defense / missile defense without unmasking the BZHRK itself. In general, history has more than once proved that there is no such poison that could not be found antidotes and success in the war is determined not only and not so much by weapons as by the ability to correctly use it. Therefore, to pump very limited money into another wunderwafel and the infrastructure providing its combat use, storage, repair, etc.

    Not quite right about technology. At the time of EBN, by his permission, the Amriks were allowed to install recording equipment and record the characteristics of the BZHRK movement. After such betrayal, they can determine where the BZHRK can be.
  9. +1
    20 January 2015 19: 29
    Such trains are very difficult to defend against attacks.
    terrorists, saboteurs, separatists of all stripes.
    You can always find out his route: drunk or for a simple bribe
    railway workers blab, for example. Too many people - civilians! -
    will be involved in his movement along the routes.
    And arrange a crash. There will be no nuclear explosion, of course,
    but a fire of fuel, pollution ... a lot of noise.
    1. 0
      20 January 2015 20: 50
      Quote: voyaka uh
      Such trains are very difficult to defend against attacks.
      terrorists, saboteurs, separatists of all stripes.
      You can always find out his route: drunk or for a simple bribe
      railway workers blab, for example. Too many people - civilians! -
      will be involved in his movement along the routes.
      And arrange a crash. There will be no nuclear explosion, of course,
      but a fire of fuel, pollution ... a lot of noise.

      You exaggerate the number of problems and their likelihood.
      Everything has been calculated for a long time and in detail, including and countering sabotage.
      Well, a little military secret for a snack.
      The situation has not been repealed so far that since some time on, all Russian Railways personnel have been transferred to the status of military personnel.
    2. 0
      20 January 2015 21: 35
      Quote: voyaka uh
      Such trains are very difficult to defend against attacks.

      Who set the minus?
      Thoughts are true.
      From me, plus.
    3. c3r
      0
      21 January 2015 15: 33
      Assign a military crew, set up a dedicated route integrated into the common transport system, observe measures to protect state secrets and no one will know. You know a lot about military goods transported by rail, and if you think it’s easy to find out, try it!
    4. ACKiPaPa,
      0
      5 February 2015 02: 22
      Dear "Voyaka", but it never occurred to you that the valiant switchmen themselves do not know which trains are going past them, even for traffic dispatchers you can concoct the necessary "misinformation" and do not say that the FSB does not / can do this. Further, read the article, the Yusovites have already gotten to the idea of ​​a convoy group, and our "paranoid" BJRD with some egg-headed operators were allowed into the "field" - shchaz! And, finally, forgive me, I don’t know what year you were born, but as a child I was surprised at the number of refrigerators at stations and railway tracks - now I understand that perhaps there were (possibly) BZHRK among them, and some couplings were strange, but to isolate them in them the real complex is definitely a non-trivial task. Think about it.
  10. 0
    21 January 2015 14: 30
    do not care what they designed there by and large, the main thing is THAT THE USSR MADE ROCKET TRAINS IN PRACTICE, here it is, the strength of the Russian engineering mind, and the livestock fight, all the blame for overseas toilet paper .... thank God, the 90s passed, here now they are raging, imposing stupid sanctions, gutting water, but the fact is a fact, if necessary they will rake on the first number, this is the main thing

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