On Jun 29, 4:36*pm, (Derek Lyons) wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
Which brings up a interesting point...would there have been any reason
to put the missiles at sea?

Because it is fair to middlin' hard to find things at sea, even in the
Mediterranean lake.

You could even develop a version where the missile rode around in a
launch tube on the back of a large truck, and could be driven around
between any one of hundreds of pre-surveyed sites in time of threat to
vastly complicate an enemy's task in trying to destroy them.

Which doesn't work nearly as well IRL as does it does in the
imagination of armchair admirals.

D.
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Oooo, tell that to the Russians. The Soviet Missile Force comprises
538 ICBMs, including 306 SS-25 Topol (Sickle) missiles and 56 SS-27
Topol-M missiles.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/rt-2pm.htm

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090211/120089670.html