Russia's nuke train and Satan 2 missile to be implemented
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.
Russia is developing the Barguzin railroad combat missile complex as it struggles to get its 'Satan 2' weapon ready which has been in the pipeline since 2009.
The Barguzin 'ghost trains' can travel 1,500 miles (2,400 km) in a day and will be disguised as ordinary passenger or freight trains, making them virtually impossible to identify.
Both nuclear weapons are being made more sophisticated and potentially devastating as tensions between Russia and the US escalate.
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The Barguzin railroad 'ghost trains' (pictured) can travel 1,500 miles (2,400 km) a day and will be disguised as ordinary passenger or freight trains, making them impossible to identify
According to Pravda, the official newspaper of Russia's Communist Party, the 'Satan 2' missile and the Barguzin missile complex are 'on the level of absolute readiness...for their implementation, should the relevant decision be made to include the projects in the state armament program'.Â
Development of these t wo weapons has often been delayed but Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday that Moscow's defence ministry is beginning work immediately.Â
The RS-28 Sarmat missile, dubbed Satan 2 by Nato, has a top speed of 4.3 miles (7km) per second and has been designed to outfox anti-missile shield systems.
It could deliver warheads of 40 megatons - 2,000 times as powerful as the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.Â
Russia unveiled the first images of its largest ever nuclear missile back in October 2016.Â
The weapon is also able to evade radar.
It is expected to have a range of 6,213 miles (10,000 km), which would allow Moscow to attack London and other European cities as well as reaching cities on America's west and east coasts.
The missile will replace t he R-36 Voevoda, which Nato dubbed 'Satan' back in the 1970s and was meant to be used by 2019.
The Barguzin nuke train complex is also an improvement on a previous design that has been in development since the 1960s.
A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile RS-20 (SS-18 Satan according to the NATO code) takes off somewhere at undisclosed location in Russia in June 2001
Each missile contains 10 nuclear warheads, according to pictures revealed online from the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau in October 2016
If a Sarmat missile were fired at London it would wipe out most of Britain, as well as northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands
The train, which is packed with ballistic missiles, can be stopped in their tracks at a moment's notice to deploy the huge rocket launchers.Â
The missiles are normally launched from the road, but the nuke trains mean they will be able to travel further in much less time.
The 'undetectable' deadly trains will be poised to strike at a moment's notice on the dawn of World War 3.
First tests reportedly happened in November.Â
The missiles are normally launched from the road, but the nuke trains mean they will be able to travel further in much less time
The 'undetectable' deadly trains will be poised to strike at a moment's notice on the dawn of World War 3
Russian defence expert Victor Murakhovsky said the new trains would prove to be a 'sheer nightmare' for foreign spies.
During the time of the Soviet Union, Russia also used rail-mobile missile systems, known as 'Molodets', with 12 nuclear trains stationed in the Kostroma, Perm and Krasnoyarsk regions, each carrying three missiles.
They came into service in 1987, just a few years before the collapse of the USSR, and the West dubbed the Soviet weapon 'ghost trains.'
The ghost trains, which carried missiles weighing more than 100 tonnes each, were disposed of between 2003 and 2005.
The missiles on the new trains will weigh less than 47 tonnes, making the replacement nuke trains muc h more efficient.
In October 2016Â Russia unveiled chilling pictures of its largest ever nuclear missile, capable of destroying an area the size of France
In 2016Â a Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile system was paraded through Red Square during the Victory Day parade but there was no sign of the RS-28 Sarmat
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