Russian news site rt reports that like its 12 soviet era nuke train. This new railway based missile platform is said to be named barguzin after the strong eastern wind that blows off lake baikal. The elusive nuke complex also moves constantly across the system of the country s railroads.
The crux of the matter is that the russian bzhrk looks similar to any other ordinary cargo train and cannot be detected by an adversary. However with barguzin nuclear trains the threat would be seriously mitigated. Atomic train is a 1999 american made for television disaster action thriller film about an accidental nuclear explosion destroying the city of denver it was originally broadcast on nbc as a two part miniseries on may 16 and 17 1999.
Tests on missiles for the barguzin railway based combat rocket system were carried. Russia has successfully tested intercontinental ballistic missiles intended for its nuclear trains program. Russia is working on a terrifying nuke train and a 100 tonne satan 2 nuclear missile that could wipe out entire countries according to moscow s defence ministry.
The scheme is designed to make the country s. Russian state media has announced the bzhrk barguzin rail mounted nuclear missile will begin testing in 2019 and enter service the following year. Once upon a time the united states wanted this too.
Russia plans to create a rail network carrying nuclear missiles that can launch from the train cars. It was an interesting idea but moscow ended concluding it was probably too expensive and unnecessary. Russia wanted a nuclear missile train by sebastien roblin key point.
The barge to hold the reactors was set afloat in june last year at the yard in st. Russia is currently building the world s first floating nuclear power plant. Another feature with the proposed nuclear powered train is that it can easily be converted to a mobile nuclear power plant supplying energy to remote areas and industrial sites.
In order to evaluate effects of a nearby nuclear explosion on the missile complex on 27 february 1991 in plesetsk the sdvig russian.
Russian nuclear train. The missile train was able to function autonomously for up to 28 days.
The missile train was able to function autonomously for up to 28 days.
