Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – China again shocked the world. Currently, the Bamboo Curtain Country is reportedly researching an ‘apocalypse train’, which has speed with high-powered missiles on board.
quote IFL Science, Friday (1/4/2022), China will use trains to carry intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and guard it to avoid enemy detection. In fact, doomsday trains can be used for missile launch platforms.
However, the train is still in the blueprint stage. South China Morning Post reported that the vehicle was the subject of a national research project funded by China’s central government and led by a civil engineering professor with Southwest Jiaotong University of Chengdu.
Researchers have published a new peer-reviewed study in the Journal of the Southwest Jiaotong University. “Compared to long-distance trains, high-speed trains operate faster and more smoothly,” the researchers wrote in the study.
“This means that on high-speed rail, the mobility, security and concealment of military vehicles will be greater.”
A similar plan had previously been put forward by the United States (US) and the Soviet Union during the cold war. While the idea ICBM rolling out in rail hasn’t progressed much in recent years, but looks like it’s coming back again.
In 2015, China has tested the “cold launch” ICBM from the train. Last year, North Korea demonstrated a ballistic missile launching from a train.
China is one of nine countries confirmed to have nuclear weapons. Other countries are the US, Russia, France, UK, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea.
China had previously tested a nuclear bomb in the 1960s. The Union of Concerned Scientists reports the country has an arsenal of about 350 warheads. That number is quite small compared to the other two big countries the US and Russia. These countries have 5,500 and 6,300 nuclear warheads respectively.
(tfa/luc)
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