The train-mounted missiles ss-24 scalpel (Saint Petersburg)

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The launching unit consists of 3 cars:

1. Control car
2. Launching car
3. Power supply car

`The RT-23UTTKh Military Railroad Missile Complex (BZhRK) consists of three launch cars, a command and control car, an electric power supply car, a navigation support car, personnel cars, and three M62 diesel locomotives. Inside the garrison areas the trains are held in individual shelters about four kilometers apart. The trains are capable of operating up to two months without resupply, at distances of up to 1,500 kilometers from their base. In times of tension the trains would be parked in railway tunnels. The launch car was developed by KBSM on the basis of an eight-axle railroad car with a load capacity of 135 tons. The cars are equipped with a device for short-circuiting and removal of overhead electric power lines. For launch, the roof of the car is opened, the missile container is erected into vertical position, and a solid-propellant gas generator then ejects the missile. For the road-mobile Tselina-2 variant of the RT-23UTTKh, prototypes of the 8-axle MAZ-7906 and 12-axle MAZ-7907 wheeled chassis were constructed, but this version was never deployed.`


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