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Road mobile systems deploy onto a set of prebuilt roads connected to their bases, they don't cross-country the impassable taiga since it's ... impassable. These
by yborg 7y ago
Road mobile systems deploy onto a set of prebuilt roads connected to their bases, they don't cross-country the impassable taiga since it's ... impassable. These are ballistic missile launchers, they don't fit under bridges, etc. so they can't just drive them around the Siberian interstate.
- mandevil 7y agoThe MKZT-79221 that is the basis for both the Yars and Topol-M TEL is rated for driving off-road, and both TELs are even considered capable of launching off-road. About half of the Russian mobile ICBM force are based in the Volga plain, and the Siberia based half are in mixed forest-steppe zones, because the Russians know their own geography.