Russia's Secret Nuke Train - The RT-23 Molodets Program

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  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 ปีที่แล้ว +902

    The American train, yes please.

    • @JacksonZvat
      @JacksonZvat ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Hell yeaaaaa

    • @JacksonZvat
      @JacksonZvat ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeaaaa

    • @JailTheDeveloper
      @JailTheDeveloper ปีที่แล้ว +10

      hell yeah, murica. ofc ussr cool

    • @F.O.U.N.D.E.R
      @F.O.U.N.D.E.R ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@JailTheDeveloper just cool , it's freaking awesome comrade

    • @fifogames33
      @fifogames33 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeaaaaaaaaaaa

  • @michaelboyko5024
    @michaelboyko5024 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    This train is in the current display in St.Petersberg, Russia, It's exibited in the Raiway Transport Museum. This nuclear strike train is a masterpiece among a fantastic layout. Tickets cost really few.

    • @quattrodrift3376
      @quattrodrift3376 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      In the war a german cant go to russia 😂

    • @blazej0864
      @blazej0864 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@quattrodrift3376are you sure about that

    • @mr_brass_monkey
      @mr_brass_monkey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      because it doesn't work

    • @cascadianrangers728
      @cascadianrangers728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh cool! I would love to see it! Must be quite the sight and experience, Im not really into trains so im sure the museum would have much for me to learn

    • @ArthurB26
      @ArthurB26 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@quattrodrift3376 Why not? Everyone else can

  • @JackSparrow-hh2lh
    @JackSparrow-hh2lh ปีที่แล้ว +383

    extremely cool animation there, love the train heading through the snow

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Legend thank you!

    • @Brock_Corb
      @Brock_Corb ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@FoundAndExplained swore I was watching "Polar Express" *USSR EDITION* ..... Looks Rad!

    • @sr_aron
      @sr_aron ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@FoundAndExplained no disrespect but your like a slightly lower budget mustard

    • @darksu6947
      @darksu6947 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sr_aron I like to put mustard on my biscuits.

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FoundAndExplained Soviet free co 2

  • @avetl
    @avetl ปีที่แล้ว +120

    This was a very complex project involving mass modernization of USSR railway system - thousand km of railways reconstructed for these trains. Unbelievably, in the early 80s the first fiber optic networks were laid along the railroads to exchange information with High Command and provide exact location with hybrid navigation systems, special tracks were equipped to launch missiles and so on. This project was effective but very expensive.

    • @avetl
      @avetl ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@user-nu1vn3yy9s Were you the curator of this project? How did you define "total failure"? At that time, liberals declared everything a "total failure", including submarines, over-the-horizon radars, space weapons deployment, and victories in wars.
      The merit of these trains is that the concepts of mobile ICBM launches were developed on their basis, and without that the Topols and Yars simply did not take place. And time has shown that the mobile ICBM launch makes serious difficulties in any attempts to intercept missiles in the early stage of flight.

    • @andreypavlov8702
      @andreypavlov8702 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Был? Он есть. Их усовершенствовали, они ездят по самой большой железной дороге в мире.

  • @lightspeedvictory
    @lightspeedvictory ปีที่แล้ว +487

    One additional advantage of cold launch systems is that there’s a slight increase in missile range as the missile itself doesn’t need to waste fuel getting out of the silo itself
    Requesting videos on the following:
    -switchblade aircraft designs such as the FA-37 Talon from the ‘05 movie “Stealth” or the X-02 Wyvern from the Ace Combat franchise
    -Super Tomcat-21 and ASF-14
    -the NATF program as a whole
    -early ATF proposals
    -Sea Apache
    -F-20 Tigershark
    -Bae SABA
    -Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Bomber proposal

    • @derrekvanee4567
      @derrekvanee4567 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And: Nuker subs, but I'm a fast attack nerd who used to be building a cold war sub sim. Smarter everyday did a peice inboard but hardly? The new bomber sounds interesting though.

    • @lightspeedvictory
      @lightspeedvictory ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@derrekvanee4567 uhhhhh…what? Not sure what you’re talking about…and the bomber request is about Lockheed’s submission to the competition that created the B-2 Spirit, not the new B-21 Raider

    • @fish3166
      @fish3166 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Arsenal bird from ace combat?

    • @thelogicsite8252
      @thelogicsite8252 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good knowledge

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  ปีที่แล้ว +62

      "Write that down... write that down!!"

  • @alanrogers7090
    @alanrogers7090 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    The USA tried this with its "MX Missile" program where trains similar to the Soviet's version where several trains would always be on the move, thereby hiding them in plain sight. At the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio has parts of one of these train cars on display.

    • @yaboyed5779
      @yaboyed5779 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the info never knew about this.

    • @Matt_Avgeek
      @Matt_Avgeek ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Can't even have a normal Train in Ohio on gah 💀

    • @dmacpher
      @dmacpher ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The MX basing study is publicly available now. It’s really really insane

    • @sleat
      @sleat ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep! I remember it from the 70's/80's. Wikipedia: "Peacekeeper Rail Garrison" has one article about it.

    • @winter1353
      @winter1353 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ohio

  • @ziggyinc
    @ziggyinc ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Your 3D models are OUTSTANDING!, kudos to your model team, they are doing really good work!

    • @sr_aron
      @sr_aron ปีที่แล้ว +9

      If you like this guy try watching mustard, they make strikingly similar content

    • @andreybaranov9857
      @andreybaranov9857 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Animation's good, yet not accurate to what the train really looked like

    • @deus_ex_machina_
      @deus_ex_machina_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The model was made by Tim Samedov, he was credited at the beginning.

  • @RexsHangar
    @RexsHangar ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Dude, these animations are slapping! Awesome work :D

    • @justarandomf-4gphantom170
      @justarandomf-4gphantom170 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude. I love your channel. It's nice seeing one of my favorite creators on another one of the channels I love

  • @harlander-harpy
    @harlander-harpy ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Amtrak has its own way of being stealth: never being on time and thus not where they're supposed to be because they don't get money they need and they can't punish the freight companies for fucking them over

    • @SuperMrBentley
      @SuperMrBentley ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @koolaidblack7697
      @koolaidblack7697 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sir, everyone knows immediately and without doubt that you are a man.

    • @harlander-harpy
      @harlander-harpy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@koolaidblack7697 Your dad looks cute in a collar and leash

  • @nikitachirich7985
    @nikitachirich7985 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Most of the training we had in the Soviet strategic special operations ( GRU number undisclosed) was to liquidate ( destroy or incapacitate) Chinese Dhungh Class nuclear ballistic systems that were train mobile platforms and usually located in heavily guarded mountain tunnels.
    The idea was to use the steel jacket AK 47 round to disable the outer communications conus of the ballistic tip , rendering the system unguidable while fending off about 1000 - 3000 armed PLA guards with a team of about 7 men LOL plus the officer .
    Our team would usually be assigned a KGB officer or a Spetznas lieutenant , he would be supplied with a portable NSZ style nuclear backback, the dialer would let you control variable yield up to about 20 KT. the Idea here was if you got close to the Chinese missile and it is not visibly refueling therefore not exposed to visible gunfire. The nuclear backpack could be setup to detonate in the vicinity you would have to be close enough to either seal the tunnel but hopefully liquidate the missile entirely.
    The fallback plan would be that upon supposed "success" a helicopter will come to extract you in the morning.
    ./.....Even though you are literally 1000 miles inland China, with a possible nuclear war taking place. LOL

  • @magicblockcraft
    @magicblockcraft ปีที่แล้ว +18

    just love the blender animations they look so smooth

  • @captainpoptarts
    @captainpoptarts ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The editing quality keeps going up every time I watch. I didn't know anything about this train design/plan lol.

  • @sineapfel1971
    @sineapfel1971 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Such an amazing video about such a devastating tech.

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thanks for the wonderful comment!

    • @user-fl5jx7pw2z
      @user-fl5jx7pw2z ปีที่แล้ว

      посмотри фильм тайны забытых побед скальпель

  • @Sacto1654
    @Sacto1654 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I think in the end, the Topol-M proved to be a better idea because you didn't have to depend on a railway network to move the missile around. And with Russia's own GLONASS satellites, the missile could get accurate target information without having to build specifically marked out forest clearings to launch the missile.

    • @o.b.873
      @o.b.873 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Have you ever tried to use glonass?? Useless and very inaccurate with triangulation error in hundreds of meters...

    • @therealswagmaster666
      @therealswagmaster666 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@o.b.873 missing a nuke by a hundred meters matters how?

    • @ypyketo
      @ypyketo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@therealswagmaster666 i laughed hard

    • @o.b.873
      @o.b.873 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@therealswagmaster666 for tactical nuclear strike, precision is everything

    • @PashaDemin
      @PashaDemin ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Topol family was desighned before GLONASS apearence.

  • @antonburdin9756
    @antonburdin9756 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The train was heavy - extremely heavy. There were twice the regular number of railway carts, and yet rails could barely manage it. Derails plagued those trains and a rocket fuel for those rockets was very toxic as well.

    • @pawelnovikov5026
      @pawelnovikov5026 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Сколько поездов таких сошло с рельс? Первый раз слышу.

    • @antonburdin9756
      @antonburdin9756 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@pawelnovikov5026 , не знаю, но знаю что это случалось. Более того в СССР не было колёсных кранов необходимой грузоподъёмности (200T). Кран прислали из США после подписания договора СНВ.
      Вот что об этом говорится в официальной прессе:
      «Однако есть у него и минусы. В прошлом устанавливавшиеся на "Молодце" твердотопливные ракеты РТ-23 имели вес по 110 тонн каждая, что требовало усиления железнодорожной колеи по маршруту движения поезда и в местах запусков.
      "В Советском Союзе два этих поезда за счет своей массы были очень ограничены в перемещении по путям. Они просто раздавливали рельсы. Поэтому вычислить их было сравнительно несложно", - рассказал другой эксперт, главный редактор журнала "Экспорт вооружений" Андрей Фролов.»
      www.bbc.com/russian/features-38064630

    • @alexandrvasilev2865
      @alexandrvasilev2865 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@antonburdin9756 Мне кажется у Вас противоречие:
      1) "Derails plagued those trains and a rocket fuel for those rockets was very toxic as well."
      2) В прошлом устанавливавшиеся на "Молодце" твердотопливные ракеты РТ-23.
      Часто наоборот заявляется, что нетоксичность твердого ракетного топлива - один из главных его плюсов. Поправьте если я не прав.

    • @antonburdin9756
      @antonburdin9756 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alexandrvasilev2865 , думаю Вы правы.
      Хотя у меня очень мало информации о свойствах смесей твёрдого топлива используемого в РТ-23 (Т9-БК-8Э на первой ступени и ОПАЛ на второй), по всей видимости, они намного безопаснее НДМГ и других топливных компонентов предыдущего поколения ракет (УР-100).

  • @Cepia120
    @Cepia120 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Found and Explanied rail edition? YES PLESE! And that animation looks so good!

    • @quillmaurer6563
      @quillmaurer6563 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I believe there have been several rail-oriented Found and Explain videos. One I recall was on the Nazi Germany super-size trains, grand ambitions like everything else German at the time that were basically trains scaled up 2x in every dimension (meaning 8x the volume per car - twice as wide, twice as long, two stories tall). Intended to link the anticipated land-based German empire like the ocean liners did the more maritime British empire. I seem to recall at least one other rail-oriented video as well, but can't remember the topic.

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I believe its only these two? Oh I did the plane train (a propeller powered train from 1910) and I think I did monorails?

    • @Cepia120
      @Cepia120 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@quillmaurer6563 I remeber that! I saw the video its was unsual to think that the germans wana have a 3m broad gauge

    • @Cepia120
      @Cepia120 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@quillmaurer6563 Thanks for you response anyways . Have a nice day!

  • @captain_commenter8796
    @captain_commenter8796 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    *When Thomas the Train Engine has had enough:*

    • @michaelcraig8860
      @michaelcraig8860 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Its Thomas the Tank Engine.

    • @fs5866
      @fs5866 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thomas the rocket engine

  • @ut2k4wikichici
    @ut2k4wikichici ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Tomas the thermal nuclear bomb was actually real

  • @BoBaH_BoBaHoB
    @BoBaH_BoBaHoB ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That train also had "Perimetr" (Dead Hand) receiving antenna, like silo-based RT-23.

  • @themuchachos4168
    @themuchachos4168 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Incredibly done high quality videos just impressive you need more subscribers

  • @tuzonthume
    @tuzonthume ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There are a few Dole fruit trains still around.

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary ปีที่แล้ว +15

    A problem I see with these trains is you wouldn't have to target every single train, even the civilian ones, you could just target the tracks

    • @briannem.6787
      @briannem.6787 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      they could park up in a yard if they run out of tracks to run on. Not ideal, but they'd still be fairly well disguised there.
      Also, the USSR has a lot of tracks. I think by the time they'd destroyed all the tracks, the nukes would already be fired

    • @mickeym5696
      @mickeym5696 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This train was not built in a single copy. There were usually several of them on the railroad on any given day.

    • @EstorilEm
      @EstorilEm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      How would that help? If the US was actively attacking the USSR homeland in an effort to prevent a nuclear retaliatory strike, the trains would just stop and launch their missiles wherever they were. They didn’t need to travel or hide anymore, their mission was achieved and the fact that the US had to hit the tracks and not the train would hypothetically imply that the trains all survived, thus so did their missiles.

  • @angelomendoza1174
    @angelomendoza1174 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The animated video of this Soviet ghost train travelling at high speed through snowy terrain, It's eerily looks like the scene from the movie Snowpiercer!!!

  • @TurboHappyCar
    @TurboHappyCar ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great story and animations! Thanks. 👍

  • @experiementalchannel1031
    @experiementalchannel1031 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We need more train videos like this

  • @HellenicWolf
    @HellenicWolf ปีที่แล้ว

    dude, your delivery is awesome. Keep it up!

  • @protogen69
    @protogen69 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such a nice video. And animations are very cool. I've never heard of this Soviet development before

  • @MrHusang23
    @MrHusang23 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In Soviet Russia, nukes come by train

    • @lambadakalle
      @lambadakalle ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Soviet Russia, train nukes you!

  • @Jedi.Toby.M
    @Jedi.Toby.M ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome content as always mate!

  • @ciobanflorin9832
    @ciobanflorin9832 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Imagine one of these nuke trains derailing randomly in a city...

    • @quillmaurer6563
      @quillmaurer6563 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I don't know as much about Soviet ICBMs, but from what I know of American ICBMs that would be pretty bad - though not because of the nuclear warhead. American nuclear warheads are designed to not go off even in a plane crash, numerous such crashes happened and none have gone off. I think in one case the conventional explosives went off but no nuclear detonation. A train crash probably wouldn't set off something designed to withstand a plane crash. I don't know if Soviet warheads had similar safeguards, based on other US-vs.-Soviet comparisons I'm guessing they had less safeguards than American ones but were still designed to not go off in a wreck. The bigger danger though is the rocket's fuel. I'm pretty sure these are liquid-fuel rockets, and for a portable ready-to-launch rocket they'd need "shelf-stable" fuels that don't require cryogenic temperatures, and ignite on contact - meaning hypergolic fuels such as hydrazine. These are extremely reactive, the tank bursting open would almost immediately explode, and are also incredibly toxic.

    • @osasunaitor
      @osasunaitor ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@quillmaurer6563 true. In the 1960s, two USA military planes collided during a maneuver over Spain. One of them was a B52 bomber carrying 4 nuclear warheads.
      Two of the bombs were released with an emergency parachute and landed safely, one on land and another on the sea. They were retrieved intact shortly after. The other two bombs couldn't be released and crashed into the ground, they were completely destroyed and the radioactive material evaporated in the air (some areas were temporarily contaminated as a result of the accident), but without activating the nuclear reaction that would have caused an atomic explosion.
      Thanks to the emergency safeguards built into these bombs, a potentially catastrophic result was avoided and the whole accident "only" killed 7 of the crew members from the crashed aircraft.

    • @user-ty4xt8rw5b
      @user-ty4xt8rw5b ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@quillmaurer6563 these rockets are solid fuel and they probably have the best protection against damage or launch, so I found a more detailed documentary video
      th-cam.com/video/5hvpWV9C5sA/w-d-xo.html

    • @quillmaurer6563
      @quillmaurer6563 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-ty4xt8rw5b That video has a lot of good info, thanks! I was wrong, they were solid fuel. Early ICBMs were crygogenic fuels, next were hypergolic, then eventually solid. I would imagine that to be far less dangerous than hyergolic fuels, though if it were to be ignited - say if the whole train caught on fire in a wreck - it could still cause some serious problems. But it would take a pretty serious fire, caused by more than just the train itself, to do that - such as a collision with an oil train that set everything on fire (like in the Lac-Megantic disaster). But in a situation like that everything is pretty screwed regardless of the missile, the fire/explosion from the oil train would probably do more damage than anything the missile might cause so long as the warheads don't go off (which even in that situation they shouldn't).

    • @j-twd930
      @j-twd930 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@osasunaitor Aren't nukes fail-safe regardless? They aren't fragile at all and require extremely precise detonation of the regular high explosives surrounding the core otherwise it won't even detonate at all.
      Even a "live" nuclear warhead coming towards a city, if it was intercepted by another missile, won't do anything at all (besides spreading a bit of radioactive material, but that should be completely negligent, because the radioactive stuff are a few kilograms at most, spread over a huge region of sky)

  • @cascadianrangers728
    @cascadianrangers728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Never understood why the movie Snowpeircer wasn't set in Russia or USSR, they are mad for trains, snow and the apocalypse

  • @egorsarmamisic
    @egorsarmamisic ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Ничего себе! Ты создаёшь классную анимацию! Такой могут позавидовать многие документалки!!

  • @christopherlng753
    @christopherlng753 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Let's hope we never seen nuke weapons like these in our lifetime

  • @OatyMilk
    @OatyMilk ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video. Very well presented

  • @johnosbourn4312
    @johnosbourn4312 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I would like to see you cover our attempt at a rail based ICBM system.

  • @Sniperboy5551
    @Sniperboy5551 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just discovered this channel, I’m surprised it doesn’t have more subscribers!

  • @aerialadventure7907
    @aerialadventure7907 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The train looks like it’s going 200 miles an hour in every clip that is shown, not sure why.

  • @dmacpher
    @dmacpher ปีที่แล้ว

    Covering the MX basing study options would be amazing

  • @cascadianrangers728
    @cascadianrangers728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was thinking they would have to have some sort of soft launch for it; Cold launch tech was pioneered on submarines, and today there are even man portable missle launchers that use a soft/cold launch, the Javlen ATGM for example

  • @Romualdomgn84
    @Romualdomgn84 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is insane how much money are spent in Russia and in USA for new nuke technologies and for maintain existing ones. Madness world, with corrupted and mindless people as ruling elite worldwide. Instead all these money and natural resources could be spent for people's comfort, medicine, education, incurable diseases treatment development, etc.
    By the way, 3D animation is incredible.

  • @danilo3552
    @danilo3552 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video, love the visuals.

  • @tobiojo6469
    @tobiojo6469 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This train is awesome and scary at the same time.

  • @j7ndominica051
    @j7ndominica051 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The animations of the various moving trains are really good.

  • @Lunarion31
    @Lunarion31 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What rendering program did you use for the train models?

  • @neten3328
    @neten3328 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Интересное видео, кстати таких поездов курсировало не малое количество.

    • @mickeym5696
      @mickeym5696 ปีที่แล้ว

      Но его модель представленная в видео это просто что-то с чем то)))

  • @conantdog
    @conantdog ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant concept 👍

  • @petergrimes9583
    @petergrimes9583 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This same concept was used in the James Bond movie golden eye as the bad guys mobile base but with a modified British 20 class loco and a helicopter hanger was counseled in the opening wagon instead

  • @milfhunter6986
    @milfhunter6986 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    People who played Himan 3 : "I've seen this one. Its a classic"

  • @kathibaba7665
    @kathibaba7665 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The US train would be stuck in the inefficient US rail network and be taken out as it waits in a passing siding

  • @sumdumguy6449
    @sumdumguy6449 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The animation is damn that train looks fast

  • @chrisalas879
    @chrisalas879 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice thanks for the info 👍

  • @killman369547
    @killman369547 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Even though the RT-23 didn't get converted into a space launch platform, another Russian iCBM did, the R-36M. Deconned R-36's are converted into the Dnepr launch platform, currently the only commercial space rocket to launch from a silo.

  • @ifuckedurmom
    @ifuckedurmom ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I mean its not just about having the train up and running, as soon as your enemies know, you can play with them, because who's to say that you didn't move your whole arsenal onto multiple trains like this?
    If research had gone further they probably could've progressed to have a few cars simply on a passenger train.

  • @purgexgaming3353
    @purgexgaming3353 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:48 was just waiting for this

  • @alexandermenschmaschine5361
    @alexandermenschmaschine5361 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As usual animation in the video is pretty cool! And some words about the diesel tank at 3:40. It has labels of "Gazprom" transport branch and marks saying that "Gaztrans" is the owner of the tank so it is the stuff of the time when Russia turned to (state)Capitalism values, not true Soviet diesel tank. But the city where the tank-platform is registered is Krasnoyarsk. My native city so I found it great personal easter egg =))

    • @deus_ex_machina_
      @deus_ex_machina_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The 3D model was made by Tim Samedov, who was credited at the beginning, but I don't think F&E would've gotten it right either.

  • @olegnimitz
    @olegnimitz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:05 it's not an Iskander, this is a Bastion, seacoast missile defense unit

  • @williamromine5715
    @williamromine5715 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It doesn't make sense to develop this type of system without letting your opponent know you have it. If your opponent thinks it knows were all your missiles are located, the likelihood it will do a first strike increases. Maybe the Soviets leaked the existence of the rail system, so America wouldn't risk a first strike.

    • @larsjonasson2959
      @larsjonasson2959 ปีที่แล้ว

      They knew that it would leak sooner or later anyway.

    • @williamromine5715
      @williamromine5715 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@larsjonasson2959 You're probably right. In fact, they wouldn't even have to develop the system. Just doing everything they could trying to keep it a secret, would convince the U.S. they had it. This would force the U.S. to spend a bunch of money to defeat the non existent system. I'm beginning to wonder if the Russians really did have it.

  • @zoperxplex
    @zoperxplex 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The US Air Force actually considered such a concept back in the 1960s with the Minuteman missile. That project explains why the Minuteman was designed to be small for an ICBM because it had to fit inside the limited confines of a railway car.

  • @NostalgicMem0ries
    @NostalgicMem0ries ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you can hate soviets, but you can deny their engineering ideas were amazing, so much potential and futuristic stuff they tried to make, sadly collapsed before most of them could be made.

  • @Ayhunt7
    @Ayhunt7 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:46 Good to know ppl finally know this game

  • @beefgoat80
    @beefgoat80 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    During the Cold War, the West thought Russia was just looking for a reason to start a nuclear war. And the Soviets thought the same thing about the West. Thank goodness, that in the end, neither side wanted to use their nukes. 😅

    • @redsun9261
      @redsun9261 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dude it is worse allready. At least back then American/USSR leaders were kind of sane. This time escalation is happenning almoust every week, without any reasonable solution to end this conflict.

    • @bomjahed
      @bomjahed ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When the president is 80 years old, who knows how bad things really are 🙈

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bomjahed The US system is alot like Canada/Britain, in that the president and federal government do not have full controll over states/provinces/parties.
      Just like how Trudeau is in a minority government, Biden doesn't have that much support from even his own party, so crazy shit would be difficult to execute.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@redsun9261 Back then USSR leaders weren't sane in the slightest. They were what people thought Donald Trump would be.
      The problem with unified and centralized power with long terms, is that its easily abused.
      Eventually the one in charge goes crazy.
      Russia has a habit of insane leaders. The most insane leaders the Americans have had, pale in comparison. The closest in comparison would be George Bush and Nixon.

  • @simat565
    @simat565 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got this recommanded after a snowpiercer video, i can see were the all-mighty algorithme made the connexion. It look so good.

  • @Phil-D83
    @Phil-D83 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A modern (non-nuclear) version with an s400 or zircon launcher would be interesting

    • @user-qx7hx3hj7b
      @user-qx7hx3hj7b ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is a version of two non-nuclear rocket inside shipping container. "Club-K" (Калибр-К).

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 ปีที่แล้ว

      itd be uselss tho. Like the range is a limiting factor, so it wouldn't really be able to protect much of anything.

    • @Phil-D83
      @Phil-D83 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@honkhonk8009 apparently they already have it - known as the club-k system

  • @derrekvanee4567
    @derrekvanee4567 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Da komrad, Russian nuke train? Plane, train, and motor carriage, da, do yiu ever taste plutonium and vodka? Very good komrad. Your komrad: Ivan.

  • @mooiboyace
    @mooiboyace ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nothing like an advert in the middle of the video to throw your concentration right off

  • @PulpHerb
    @PulpHerb ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gas propelled cold launch was in us by the US from the early 60 with the Polaris missiles on SSBN.
    Not sure if you have an earlier Soviet example for the claim they invented it first but given the delay between submerged launch deployment between the US and the USSR I'm not sure the latter did it first.

    • @user-jq3qk2nq2q
      @user-jq3qk2nq2q ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Here is the mistake of the author of the video, he called the Mortar launch, a gas launch.
      You were the first to use a Gas stratum on the polaris complex, which pushes the rocket out of the submarine shaft with compressed gases (in fact, like a torpedo shot).
      We were the first to use a mortar launch (this is when a powder charge pushes out a rocket, as when a mortar is fired).
      We saw that a small block of the rocket fell off from the bottom after the launch, well, this is the very charge.

    • @F.O.U.N.D.E.R
      @F.O.U.N.D.E.R ปีที่แล้ว

      Comrade , we were the first

    • @user-jq3qk2nq2q
      @user-jq3qk2nq2q ปีที่แล้ว

      @@F.O.U.N.D.E.R Greeting Comrade, not used after the collapse of the USSR.
      The only exception is the Army.
      The military in Russia still uses such a Greeting.

    • @F.O.U.N.D.E.R
      @F.O.U.N.D.E.R ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-jq3qk2nq2q Д.А.

    • @PulpHerb
      @PulpHerb ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-jq3qk2nq2q thanks for the details.

  • @Wedgetail14
    @Wedgetail14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now THIS is the Crazy Train!

  • @ledvapour6937
    @ledvapour6937 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What do you mean with "short circuit the power lines and use it as needed". You don't get power by shorting something out.

  • @kaushikkumbhat7380
    @kaushikkumbhat7380 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Please make a video on Russia's DEAD HAND

  • @ryankruchowski1951
    @ryankruchowski1951 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad heard about the Peacekeeper rail train. In fact, I think there is one of the peacekeeper rail car at Wright Paterson Air base. I think there is, but I am not sure if its their anymore.

    • @user-ty4xt8rw5b
      @user-ty4xt8rw5b ปีที่แล้ว

      these rockets are solid fuel and they probably have the best protection against damage or launch, so I found a more detailed documentary video
      th-cam.com/video/5hvpWV9C5sA/w-d-xo.html

    • @user-ty4xt8rw5b
      @user-ty4xt8rw5b ปีที่แล้ว

      found a video of what's inside the command module
      p.s. I advise you to read all the comments that the Officer who served on them writes (his comment is the first but in Russian)
      th-cam.com/video/qlB5rla9pfc/w-d-xo.html
      (please don't take this as channel advertising)

  • @kebabremover970
    @kebabremover970 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my rocket science teachers was the developer of this complex.

  • @pablogodoy9241
    @pablogodoy9241 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    talking about trains, what about the M-497 "black Beetle" train with turbo jet engines?

  • @jirislavicek9954
    @jirislavicek9954 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As far as I know, the Americans built a dosimeter apparatus hidden in a shipping container that was able to detect a passage of this nuclear train and sent it to the USSR. It was later discovered by KGB.

  • @emmanuelubaha5815
    @emmanuelubaha5815 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good video documentary.

  • @Zeppy0204
    @Zeppy0204 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If some company made a model on this, I’ll freaking buy it

    • @danielbedrossian5986
      @danielbedrossian5986 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am pretty sure there are Soviet carts in most modell scales like these, the locomotives are standard M62, you can find many modells.
      The deployed rocket is the only hard part.

  • @EpicThe112
    @EpicThe112 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How about the Chinese and North Korean version of the train. Their loads can hit RAAF Bases in Queensland and Northern Territory possibly RAAF Bases in The States of Western and South Australia.

    • @devilliers123
      @devilliers123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But who would want to nuke Australia?
      It's got nothing....

    • @EpicThe112
      @EpicThe112 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@devilliers123 the Chinese and the North Koreans because they know that Australia is possibly going to be used as a base by the United States and it's allies against them

  • @Keatoil
    @Keatoil ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:43 "this is some serious metro 2033 vibes" followed by a Filmora $45 transition with a royalty free swoosh sound, couldn't get worse than that Lmfao

  • @Kyanzes
    @Kyanzes ปีที่แล้ว

    This is awesome, comrade!

  • @mjuneoginn
    @mjuneoginn ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I knew it- the Soviet Molodets- class Nuke ICBM Launcher Train...
    Though it may not be as quick hitting as the Scarp Voevoda/Satan One, Topol-M, Yars, Bulava, and the newly designed RS-28 SARMAT/Satan Two...
    But: it's still quite deadly.

    • @hacaothi5683
      @hacaothi5683 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All of Its was been destroyed in 2005 ( during the START II ) :D

    • @evl1536
      @evl1536 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hacaothi5683 No. You're wrong. And this is not a secret.

    • @hacaothi5683
      @hacaothi5683 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@evl1536 check for START II 🐸 and why i 'm wrong 🐸

    • @hacaothi5683
      @hacaothi5683 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@evl1536 here if you don't know : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-23_Molodets

    • @evl1536
      @evl1536 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@hacaothi5683 I know a little bit about what's going on.
      РТ-23 УТТХ "Молодец" (RT-23 "Molodets" (a soft obsolete but used form of the word - daring/daredevil) was decommissioned because their missiles are designed for a 15-year service life, which expired in 2002-2004.
      In 2007, the development of a more modern combat rail missile system (CRMS) "Barguzin" for a more modern rocket began. Which one is not exactly known, three options are assumed, including hypersonic.
      In 2018, the project in the state program was suspended and moved to 2027, as funding was redistributed to mine-based hypersonic missiles as more important at the moment for defense capability.
      What has been done until 2018:
      -successful tests of a new rocket have been conducted at the Plesetsk cosmodrome for CRMS
      -new lightweight wagons have been developed that do not differ in appearance from conventional cargo
      -CRMS will be equipped with 5 rockets and the entire train will be pulled by one locomotive
      In 2020, there was information about the possible resumption of work on the CRMS Barguzin, but it is impossible to confirm or deny this.

  • @scale_model_apprentice
    @scale_model_apprentice ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please do the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison

  • @vvg916happyengineer
    @vvg916happyengineer ปีที่แล้ว +2

    MAZ 7907 deserves its own video I guess.

  • @MiniNinjaa-zk4ww
    @MiniNinjaa-zk4ww ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine your certain the all of the enemy's population is dead due to some chemical or disease you used to kill them and then almost a month later nukes come from a random spot in your country

  • @statinskill
    @statinskill ปีที่แล้ว +2

    American missile trains could be found out with radiation detectors hidden along railway lines. Right alongside the American domestic radiation sensor network you're not supposed to know about.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its the other way around. The US puts up dosimeters on cargo crates that was supposed to pinpoint these trains.
      Americans were think of putting missiles on trains/planes, but it was scrapped for the same reason they dont use 747's for military purposes.
      Endangering civilian infrastructure would be counter-productive

    • @statinskill
      @statinskill ปีที่แล้ว

      @@honkhonk8009 The reasoning in Russia is surely when railroads are under attack, then everything else is too late as well.

  • @PashaDemin
    @PashaDemin ปีที่แล้ว

    Barguzin was stopped not because of lack of funding. This complex has a huge disadvantages in it's concept. And main his problem is - you can not hide it anymore. 40 years ago it was not a problem at all. No smartphones and internet. No one could post a photo of weird looking train. Today we have a compleetly different situation. That's why Sarmat and Yars are prefered.

  • @Hornbill2025
    @Hornbill2025 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well, now when you mentions them.. Seriously, you should make a video about the history of the Topol M and Rs24 Yars and their missile platforms

  • @paxwallace8324
    @paxwallace8324 ปีที่แล้ว

    Able Archer 1983 if you don't know look it up. There's a great movie (German it's funny a bit) about that whole incident.

  • @mr.iforgot3062
    @mr.iforgot3062 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This train was dismantled in 1990. It was scrapped for the steal except for the engine. It's still running in eastern part of Russia.

  • @amppari_234
    @amppari_234 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "High altitude spy plane directed orbital missiles has entered the chat"

  • @mrerj4539
    @mrerj4539 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello Found And Explained can you make a video of the Lapcat A2 I know you're probably making a video. But it will be cool to see video of the Lapcat A2.

  • @watchvideosok7441
    @watchvideosok7441 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could you please do a vid on the MAZ-7907

  • @nuclearbriefcase7259
    @nuclearbriefcase7259 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact :- this program is so successful that india north korea,china has accepted this of course unofficially

  • @besstl3434
    @besstl3434 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When are you gonna do the yak-141?

  • @fromonhigh891
    @fromonhigh891 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great graphics!

  • @AK.__
    @AK.__ ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, interesting. Thank you. Can't we send some groups of the secret agents under cover, to different areas, so they could work independently, speak with correct people, research, and find finally out - where this train is, was it decommissioned, etc?

    • @hikewomeat
      @hikewomeat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I happened to visit one mysterious place that is associated with this train. I went there not to see the secret train, but to enjoy the outdoors. However, by coincidence, some contact with this train took place. The locals also told me many intriguing details. You can watch a video about it on my channel. th-cam.com/video/Guqb-1CMen4/w-d-xo.html

    • @AK.__
      @AK.__ ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hikewomeat Will check it out. I like train related videos, disregards if it top secret military object or simple passenger trains.

    • @hikewomeat
      @hikewomeat ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AK.__ This segment of the railway is still interesting in that there is a small train with a diesel engine. The speed of this train is 30 km/h. The travel on it is free. The secret train drove at night, I was frightened of a bright light from it when I was about to sleep in a tent.

    • @AK.__
      @AK.__ ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hikewomeat Thanks a lot! I'll watch on my evening - now the work VPN frequently closes connectivity with TH-cam server.

  • @the_bi11iona1re7
    @the_bi11iona1re7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    please cover the tu 160 bomber

  • @Laurence0227
    @Laurence0227 ปีที่แล้ว

    Speaking of such, would it be a good idea to built missile train like this but arm with anti air anti balistic missle instead, you'd have a defence satiline running around on your soil

    • @kutuzovmikhailillarionovic2120
      @kutuzovmikhailillarionovic2120 ปีที่แล้ว

      then he should always be near military bases or important objects

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 ปีที่แล้ว

      If your launch detection works, that implies these missiles haven't reached you yet, and you can shoot them down.
      Plus if its heading toward the launch site, it would probably be easier to shoot it down.
      Its probably better to just spam these anti-air missiles around the country instead of making it mobile honestly.

  • @ericphantri96734
    @ericphantri96734 ปีที่แล้ว

    The train used to change earth speed of rotation and made earthquake or tsunami just like Japanese bullets train 300 km/hr but pulse accelerated made it like 100 nuclear bomb

  • @anavgeekspassion5727
    @anavgeekspassion5727 ปีที่แล้ว

    Week 3 of asking for a Kizilelma video... Great video as always btw

  • @tobiojo6469
    @tobiojo6469 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video

  • @Quasihamster
    @Quasihamster ปีที่แล้ว +15

    You wouldn't have to target "any civilian train in the whole USSR." Knowing the precise number and kind of vehicles is a big giveaway already, plus trains comprising a mix of passenger and freightcars is somewhat rare to begin with. The large number of locomotives for a relatively short train would be something to look out for as well.
    Also, what's an ICEBM please? Germany's RT23 disguised as a high speed train?

    • @Richie_P
      @Richie_P ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But it wouldn't really matter if the trains were easily recognizable. The idea is to stop the US from launching a pre-emptive strike and taking out all the land based missiles at the exact same time. So even if you know exactly what the train looks like, you don't have any time to search for it.

    • @volchesalo7354
      @volchesalo7354 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      who knew the number and kind of vechiles in 1980? there was no section on wiki about it
      turn on your head sometimes bro

    • @longtailgt
      @longtailgt ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thing is, we're just seeing a video representation today but back in the 80s, I'm pretty sure there was no video or pictures of the train, and certainly not accessible to the US. So even if they somehow found out information like the number and type of cars and whatnot, it would still be very difficult to actually locate and take the measures to destroy the train in real time.

    • @reinhardt2446
      @reinhardt2446 ปีที่แล้ว

      ICBM: Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile.