PLA Rocket Force Thread

IRBMs may also be put on trains- bringing all of India & her navy in their crosshairs from Tibet, Inner Mongolia &/ Sinkiang.

Another reason for Russia to pick Chinese companies to develop high speed trains in Russia... they could work together on armed train designs too...

So what you are saying is that if space travel to other stars will never ever happen because it hasn't been done yet by humans from Earth?

They have said that they are turning from military spending to infrastructure and one of the things they are looking at is high speed trains and generally upgrading their rail network.

BTW the Chinese have had massive success with upgrading their train network and the internal travel between cities has boomed because of improved network access internally between Chinese cities.

Improved rail links between cities will improve things for the Russians and open up some regions that are currently rather isolated.

The ultimate pressure is to further improve rail links across the country to encourage and expand capacity from Asia to the EU, but they are trying to expand it to cover more areas including the far north as well... there is potential for material to be shipped via the northern sea route to any of the many ports there to put products on trains to then deliver east or west. It will also improve the ability to support operations in the arctic regions and to get minerals and resources out of the far east.

The article I read they were trying to decide between German or Chinese assistance in this work... and to be honest with the flaky way the EU is acting my money would be on Chinese assistance in this programme as it would be more reliable and less likely to be cut off.

A 300 mile per hour train would be competitive against aircraft...

In some densely populated areas it's possible, but I doubt they'll have so many high speed lines as in China.

Well, no, that is not the point... the point is to link different places together, so farmers can take some produce to market in the big city themselves, or people can live further out from the centre of a big city and still get to work each day... or people can go for a day to visit relatives in different cities, or expand their search for work or a friend or whatever.

Or just check out a different place for a day or two.... to find out what sort of place they really are.

Most crops r gown in the European part, & it's well covered by the rail network:

Do you think there is a reason for that?

If there was no rail network at all the main crop areas would either be linked by road or by air... the latter rather more expensively linked.

The point is that where there is a rail network, you can have development and growth because it is linked to the rest of the country... even the far side of it if needed, or the outside world even.

Where there is no link... like most of the far east... growth is limited by how much resources you can source locally or how much you brought in with you... or how much can be brought in by air.... roads not being an option... or cross country from the nearest port.

With more rail links then there is less need for long cross country travels... as well as the fun fact that shorter ranged flights can mean smaller lighter aircraft can be used to move things around to previously deeply inaccessible areas...

This is what happened in the US when they introduced trains... it happened in India and in China too...

Individual farmers don't go too far to sell their produce- not worth the time & $; they won't need fast trains if it only takes 1-2hrs to reach a city. Also, passenger trains don't have much room for produce; they use trucks for that, not trains full of people & their luggage.

Even when selling it themselves, most crops in a farmers market are not 1-2 hours old from being picked...

One of the fantastic things about trains is that you can add and remove carriages of all types as easily as changing your mind, so a cargo carriage can be added... even at the last minute... if a train becomes full even just at the last minute they can add more carriages easily enough...