MX ICBM concept

[Firehorse]

I heard that the MX Peacekeeper ICBMs were retired. The MX concept had underground trains carrying BMs moving in a loop to prevent their targeting/destruction. I also heard a rumor that the Soviets (besides their above the ground missile trains) had similar system built in Kazakhstan, but can't find any open source reference. Can anyone shed some more light?

 

[Chrom]

I heard that the MX Peacekeeper ICBMs were retired. The MX concept had underground trains carrying BMs moving in a loop to prevent their targeting/destruction. I also heard a rumor that the Soviets (besides their above the ground missile trains) had similar system built in Kazakhstan, but can't find any open source reference. Can anyone shed some more light?

Too expencive. Soviets never had anything similar in operation status.

 

[windscorpion]

I think i remember seeing an artist impression of such a system, issued by the US DoD but it may have been a case of "we're thinking of it so they must be too".

Closest is the SS-24 that could be deployed in railway cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-23_Molodets