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| China's Doomsday Train Loading DF-41 ICBM Missiles Can Hit US and European Cities with Hundreds of Nuclears |
International Military - If the United States and Russia have doomsday planes, then China has doomsday trains. The form of the doomsday train is a bullet train with the ability to launch hundreds of nuclear warheads.
The bullet trains with stealthy missile launchers can target US and European cities with hundreds of nuclear warheads that cannot be detected until after launch. Rick Fisher, a senior fellow for Asian military affairs at the Center for International Assessment and Strategy, warned that China's rail system could potentially support a thousand additional warheads capable of hitting European and American targets.
Fisher said China's rail-based launch system greatly increases the threat of a first nuclear strike. "China's development of conventional or high-speed rail ICBMs will add a new layer to its already accelerated nuclear threat to America and Europe," he told The Sun quoted from the Daily Star, Sunday (12/6/2022).
"Historically, the CCP has shown a preference for starting surprise wars with relatively weaker enemies," he added, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. The idea of hiding compact nuclear missiles, similar to the weapons used by nuclear submarines, in trains is not new.
The concept was used by the Soviet Union between 1987 and 2005, and the North Korean military released images of the rail-based missile test last year. North Korea's KCNA news agency released photos showing the missile being launched from atop a camouflage-painted train in a mountainous area.
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But China's approach of using 220mph super-fast trains instead of conventional rolling stock, makes the threat even greater and raises the prospect of an attack sparking a Third World War. "Compared to long-distance trains, high-speed trains operate faster and more smoothly," says a paper from researchers at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu.
"This means that on high-speed rail, the mobility, security and concealment of military vehicles will be greater," the paper continued. The super-fast train can beat anything deployed anywhere on China's 23,000-mile high-speed track, making surveillance of potential launch sites nearly impossible.
The launchers, currently stored in freight cars, could potentially be housed in containers painted to resemble passenger trains, making them even more difficult to spot. China is believed to have carried out a test launch of the DF-41 missile from a train in December 2015. The DF-41 is an 80-ton intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can deliver up to 10 nuclear warheads or penetration aids at a range of about 9,300 miles.
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