OT, but a spooky concept

On 4/28/2010 5:50 AM, Allen Thomson wrote:
On Apr 28, 2:26 am, Pat wrote:

The ones that were going to travel around the US would have been on
trains, not trucks.


The Soviets actually did have such a thing, the SS-24:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/rt-23.htm

And a secret road mobile ICBM also:
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/temp2s.htm
....which became the ancestor of the current Topel-M:
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/topol.htm
We had a short-lived program to develop something along the same lines
called "Midgetman":
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/icbm/sicbm.htm
Here's a Air Force drawing of the Minuteman railcar concept:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...Conception.png


Pat