Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering (MYTH) ready to resume work on the creation of a combat railway missile system (BJRK) “Barguzin”. This was told by the general designer of MIT, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Solomonov.
In an interview with the TASS agency, Solomonov said, that the institute is ready to resume the suspended work on the creation of the BZHRK “Barguzin”, all developments are saved. To start work, only the appropriate decision of the authorities and the military is required..
We are ready for this work. She was suspended at a known time. If a decision is made to resume work, we are ready to continue them
– he stressed.
About the beginning of work on the project of a combat railway missile system (BJRK) “Barguzin” The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced in 2012 year, at 2014 a rocket was chosen for him “yars”, and at the end 2017 years had passed a message, that the project is closed. According to Russian media, development was delayed “indefinitely”.
At the same time it was known, that the project has been fully developed, also successfully carried out throw tests of missiles for the complex. Later information appeared, that the resumption of work on it is possible when the military-political situation changes.
The development of the new BZHRK was carried out by the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, considering the experience of creating his predecessor – BZHRK with a rocket “Well done” (RT-23 UTTH, by NATO classification – SS-24 “Scalpel”).
During the Soviet Union, the Strategic Missile Forces had three divisions, which included four BZHRKs “Well done”. In this way, twelve “nuclear trains” carried 36 missiles, each of which carried 10 warheads. Utilization of BZHRK took place in 2003-2006 years.