Russia to Bring Back Railroad-Based ICBM. © Photo Courtesy of SMF (RVSN) press service
Russia To Bring Back Railroad-Based ICBM – Source -- RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will restart production of railway-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), with prototypes to be deployed by 2020, a senior Russian defense industry official said on Wednesday.
Work has already begun on the prototypes, which will utilize exclusively domestically-made components, the official told RIA Novosti on condition of anonymity.
The new missiles will be half the weight of their decommissioned Soviet analogues, allowing them to fit into one railcar, the official added.
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Update: Russia to build new heavy ICBM by 2018 - Karakayev -- Space Daily/Voice of Russia
My Comment: It's back to the past for Russia's nuclear forces. I guess they forgot that the reason why these systems were scrapped in the first place was because of security/technology/maintenance/transportation/etc. problems associated in maintaining such a force. Hell .... this makes more sense than building a fleet of railroad-based ICBM systems.
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