The elusive "Barguzin": a big surprise for the United States
In the next five years, Russia will have a new "weapon retaliation "- the Barguzin battle railway missile systems. Appearing from “out of nowhere”, these rocket trains will be able to deliver a crushing retaliation against the territory of any adversary.
Last week, the first International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2015" was held in Kubinka (Moscow region). The event turned out to be colorful, useful and rich in food for thought. Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening the forum, in particular, mentioned that our country will continue to actively develop and improve its strategic nuclear weapons. “The composition of nuclear forces this year will add to more 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles, which will be able to overcome any, even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems,” said the head of the Russian state.
This statement, of course, caused a storm of emotions among Western politicians. “This belligerent rhetoric of Russia is unjustified, dangerous and plays a destabilizing role,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “No one should hear such statements from the leader of a strong country and worry about the possible consequences,” said US Secretary of State John Kerry.
And “worrying” about our most likely adversary, really, is about what. In recent years, Russia has not only intensively restored its nuclear missile shield, but also regains those types of strategic defensive weapons that the United States, for all their technological and financial strength, have failed to create, no matter how hard they tried.
This is primarily about combat railway missile complexes (BZHRK), which were created in the Soviet Union by the Utkin brothers — the general designer of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, academician of the RAS Vladimir Fedorovich Utkin (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) and the general designer of the design bureau of special engineering (St. Petersburg) Petersburg, Russia) Academician of RAS Alexei Fedorovich Utkin in the middle of the 80-s of the last century. Under the leadership of the elder brother, an intercontinental ballistic missile RT-23 and its railway version RT-XNUMHUTTH (23IX15, "Scalpel" according to NATO classification) were created, and under the direction of the younger brother, the "spaceport on wheels" capable of carrying three "Scalpel »And launch them from anywhere in the Soviet Union, with which there is a railway connection.
Mobile combat railway missile system (BZHRK) with intercontinental combat missiles RT-23 UTTH
This weapon turned out absolutely lethal. BZHRK "Good work" in appearance, almost did not differ from conventional freight trains. Therefore, it was an impossible task for the US military to calculate their location visually or using space observation among thousands of trains, daily scouring the vast country. And take steps to intercept - too. Because from the moment of receiving the order to perform the combat mission until the launch of the first rocket, the “Good One” took less than three minutes. Having received the order, the train stopped at any point on its route, the contact suspension was set aside by a special device, the roof of one of the refrigerated cars was opened and from there a ballistic missile carrying 10 nuclear warheads into the sky with a mortar launch practically appeared , from nowhere, 10 Soviet BZHRK, carrying 12 intercontinental ballistic missiles in response to a nuclear strike could literally wipe out any European country that is part of NATO, or several lko major US states.
Nothing like the American engineers and the military to create and could not, although they tried. Therefore, Western politicians entered into the business, and, at the insistence of the USA and Great Britain, from Soviet 1992 to 2003, all Soviet BZHRKs were removed from combat duty and destroyed. The appearance of two of them can now be seen only in the museum of railway equipment at the Warsaw station of St. Petersburg and in the AvtoVAZ Technical Museum.
However, over the past 20 years, the problem of effective "retaliation" of Russia in the event of aggression not only did not diminish, but only worsened. The new “global non-nuclear strike” strategy, which guides the current US authorities, suggests that not a nuclear strike, but a massive strike with high-precision missiles, will be dealt with on the territory of the likely enemy. Thousands of such missiles launched from American submarines, surface ships and ground installations should cover the most important industrial, energy centers of the enemy, the bases of its nuclear potential and, ultimately, leave it without teeth and will to resist. ...
And one of the guarantees that this scenario will not be implemented on the territory of Russia, and the revival in our country of the development and production of combat railway missile systems is becoming. Which by the mere fact of their existence can “cool the heat” of potential opponents of our country.
Work on their creation has already begun. Shortly before the Armiya-2015 international military-technical forum, Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Yury Borisov told reporters that the draft design of the new Russian BZHRK called Barguzin was ready. Before 2020, the structure of the Russian Armed Forces should be received before 5 BZHRK "Barguzin". Their development and construction is carried out at the expense of the funds provided for in the state armaments program up to 2020.
Information about the start of practical work on the reconstruction of BZHRK was also confirmed in the Radio Electronic Technologies Concern (KRET), which is developing means of electronic warfare for new rocket trains. “These developments are coming. Now our institutes are engaged in these developments, and these proposals will be handed over to the head executor who will be appointed to restore the BZHRK, ”adviser to the deputy head of the concern Vladimir Mikheev told TASS at the Army-2015 forum. “The train must be protected from reconnaissance and destruction, and the missiles themselves, which will be used by them, are also objects against which the enemy’s missile defense will act,” he stressed.
Information about what the Barguzins will represent is extremely limited. However, it is already quite clear that these will not be “modernized“ Well done ”, but completely new cars. First, because the technology for 30 years (the first "Good" was adopted for the 1987 year) went far ahead. Secondly, because all the work on the Barguzin is performed in Russia, without the involvement of the Ukrainian Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and the Yuzhmash plant.
The main weapon of the Barguzins will not be the 100-tonne "Scalpels", but the 50-tonne RS-24 "Yars" missiles. This is a completely Russian rocket - the development of the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, the production of the Votkinsk plant. As you have already noticed, the Yars is twice as light as the PT-23UTTH, but it also contains a smaller number of separable combat units - 4 (according to open sources) instead of 10 (although it flies almost 1 thousand kilometers further than the "Scalpel"). It is known that each Barguzin will carry the YNS on the 6. But it is not yet very clear which way the developers of the new rocket train will go - or they will try to place in each refrigerated wagon that serves as a transport container for a rocket, two Yars, or will be limited to one for each rocket, but double compared to “Well done”, will increase the number of container-launchers in the composition of each train. At the same time, obviously, the main know-how of the creators of the “Well done” brothers Utkin’s will remain in the Barguzin - the system of launching the rocket: discharging the contact network over the train, mortar launching of the rocket, discharging it to the side using a powder accelerator and subsequent launch of the sustainer engine. This technology made it possible to divert the rocket propulsion engine from the launch complex and thereby ensure the stability of the rocket train, the safety of people and engineering structures, including railroad ones. And it was the Americans who could not put it into practice when developing their BZHRK, which at the beginning of the 90-s of the last century was tested at the US railway test site and the Western missile test site (Vandenberg Air Force Base, California).
At the same time, the Barguzin in general, neither cars, nor diesel locomotives, nor electromagnetic radiation, will be separated from the total mass of freight trains, thousands of which are now scurrying daily on Russian railways. Because the railway technology during this time, too, have gone far ahead. For example, the “Well done” was carrying three DM62 diesel locomotives (a special modification of the М62 serial diesel locomotive) with an aggregate power of 6 thousand lh.s. And the power of only one of the current mainline freight two-section diesel locomotive 2ТЭ25А "Vityaz", which is serially produced by Transmashholding, is 6 800 hp Full autonomy of the train is assumed to be the same as the “Well done” - 30 days. The course range is up to 1000 thousand kilometers per day. This, according to the developers, is enough to ensure the complete secrecy of the Barguzin and its ability to deliver an unexpected retaliation to the enemy at any time.
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