Nuke Express: Russian Railway-Based Missile That Was Headache for Western Countries Turns 30

Sputnik Alexey Danichev

Nuclear missiles based on the frame of a regular railway car were an ideological extension of ground-based mobile missile systems, making strategic weaponry more mobile, while also less detectable.

Thirty years ago Soviet Strategic Missile Troops added a new type of weapon to their arsenal, causing serious concern among western states in the last years of the Cold War.

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