Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Container Missile System (Club-K)

Imagine you are truck driver minding your own business and transporting your container cargo to its destination when you stop for a quick coffee break. As you sit in the dinner sipping your coffee you glance out the window at your truck only to see the top rising up revealing four missile launchers. The Club-K Container Missile System (their website) could make such a scenario is possible. The premise is simple enough, turn what looks like container cargo into a clandestine loaded missile launching platform.

Such a system would be extremely difficult to detect and extremely difficult to keep track off. Instead of needing to destroy missile launch platforms in your enemies territory, and tracking/destroying missile launch vehicles, every shipping container could be a potential missile launcher. What is worse, it is not just the shipping containers on your enemies' territory. It could be a container they have shipped to a neighboring country or even into your country.

There may be some hitches with the technology. While it does not specify, I imagine if you were driving down the highway and it was activated it may cause the truck to crash or tip potentially neutralizing it. Similarly, if the container has another container stacked on top of it, the device may not deploy. Still, those potential problems are not nearly serious enough to take away from the benefits of such a system.

If you want to buy one, you may be forced to ask Russia. The United States equivalent system appears on the verge of being axed.

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