Railway missile plan aims to make China’s nuclear arsenal more mobile and difficult to intercept and destroy
China is looking at launching nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from specially-designed high-speed trains that can transport its nuclear arsenal across the country’s large landmass, making them more difficult to intercept and destroy.
The country’s high-speed trains travel up to 350 kilometers per hour, with 16 carriages each weighing about 16 tons. China has 37,000 kilometers of high-speed rail as of this year, which can potentially give its rail-based nuclear arsenal excellent mobility and survivability.
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