Russia will return the Soviet “ghost train” to the rails in 2019 in response to US missile defense
The Barguzin combat railway complex will enter service with the Russian army around 2019. Military expert retired colonel Mikhail Timoshenko announced this on radio “KP”.
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“This means that flight and space tests will begin this year, then state tests, and then, by government decree, this joy will be adopted for service. You all know about trains No. 0, as our military railway missile systems “Molodets” were called in railway jargon. This will be No. 02,” Tymoshenko said.
The Barguzin combat missile system will be armed with six RS-24 Yars missiles against the three Scalpel ICBMs of its predecessor, the Molodets BZHRK. It will be impossible to detect the train - in addition to modern camouflage means, it will be equipped with electronic warfare systems and other devices that increase secrecy. The divisional set of the BZHRK will consist of five trains, each of which will be equivalent to a regiment. The creation of Barguzin is the Russian response to the deployment by the Americans of a global missile defense system.
Of the 12 Soviet missile trains, 10 were destroyed in accordance with the START-2 treaty, two were transferred to museums. They were replaced by mobile ground complexes of Topol-M missiles, which are significantly inferior to trains in mobility and invulnerability.
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