Stupid idea. If your enemy has any airpower, armored trains are hideously vulnerable to "smart" bombs. They can be stopped by simply blowing the tracks in front of them. And, if you have any explosives left over, you put them in front of the track-cutting charges so that the train stops on top of them... Obviously, it would be equally stupid for troops to engage the train whether it is moving or not, though.
More armored trains means more armored trains carrying icbms to be sought by NATO when shtf. More trains carrying icbms means less of them will be found and destroyed before they can complete a launch. Of course, Russia and China have developed shipping containers that carry icbms and cruise missiles but transporting these on commercial trains doesn't provide for much security. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUU_9bOcnM http://www.rt.com/news/217795-russia-nuclear-missile-trains/
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Stupid idea.
If your enemy has any airpower, armored trains are hideously vulnerable to "smart" bombs.
They can be stopped by simply blowing the tracks in front of them.
And, if you have any explosives left over, you put them in front of the track-cutting charges so that the train stops on top of them...
Obviously, it would be equally stupid for troops to engage the train whether it is moving or not, though.
More armored trains means more armored trains carrying icbms to be sought by NATO when shtf. More trains carrying icbms means less of them will be found and destroyed before they can complete a launch. Of course, Russia and China have developed shipping containers that carry icbms and cruise missiles but transporting these on commercial trains doesn't provide for much security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUU_9bOcnM
http://www.rt.com/news/217795-russia-nuclear-missile-trains/
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