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What's stopping people from hijacking military trains?
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<p>I suppose these days the terrorists are more interested in weapons of mass destruction rather than just a tank or two causing traffic jams.</p><p>However, it had been shown in various movies such as 'Under Siege Two' and 'Broken Arrow', terrorists had decide to use trains as their means of transport across the US carrying out their terror strikes.</p><p>So never under estimate the bad guys! They could hijack one and then meet up with their 'comrades' with necessary equipment required at certain point and then launch an armour assult on a huge densily populated city or use those to take control over a nuke missile base etc and etc.</p><p>So far I have not heard any real security measure that's gonna stop the scenarios been carried out from the above two movies. On both occasions, trains were been hijacked, one carrying a nuke and one used to control a EMP weapon satellite. Both involved highly organised terrorist groups and in 'Under Siege Two', they demonstrated a similar point to hit a army reserve base to get some Huey's. Imagine a armoured battalion even without live ammo, they can get in practically any other military installation with little effort. Also the whole thing started because I actually saw rocket launchers installed on the HUMMVEE's and how hard would it be to start a HUMMVEE? ;-) I imagine some diesel should do it. Most military vehicle don't even require keys or they are all keyed alike, thye jut like race cars that had ignition switches and ignition button.</p>
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