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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_trainAn armoured train (Commonwealth English) or armored train (American English) is a railway train protected with heavy metal plating and which often includes railway wagons armed with artillery, machine guns, and autocannons. Some have also had ports used to fire small arms from the inside of the train, especially in earlier armoured trains. For the most part, they were used during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, when they offered an innovative way to quickly move large amounts of firepower into a new location.
Most countries have discontinued their use since road vehicles became much more powerful and offered more flexibility, train tracks proved too vulnerable to sabotage and attacks from the air, and air transportation was an even more flexible way to relocate firepower to a new location. However, there have been occasional uses in the late 20th century and early 21st century. Russia has used improvised armoured trains during the Second Chechen War (1999–2009) and in its invasion of Ukraine (2022–present).[1][2][3]
A Polish armoured train, the Danuta, in 1939. From the left: artillery wagon, infantry assault wagon, armoured locomotive, artillery wagon
Engraving captioned "The railroad battery on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, built to protect the workmen while rebuilding the burnt bridges on that road--From a Sketch by William C. Russell, of Wilmington Del. See Page 5."
French mobile artillery battery (1914)
Hungarian MÁVAG armoured train in 1914
Estonian improvised armoured train in 1919 during the Estonian War of Independence.
A German BP42 armoured train in the Balkans, 1943.
A RT-23 Molodets in the Saint Petersburg railway museum
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