Mobility

We see here some trucks with missile launchers.

These mobile devices can be moved along regular highways (but not always narrow country lanes) and that makes them mobile, right?

Large, but mobile. And if you suspect that The Enemy is about to drop bombs or missiles on your mobile missiles, well, you just up stakes and drive somewhere else to set up your strike against The Enemy, right?

If so, then why is a concrete pad bulldozed out of a sloping area?

We can see, just in front of the foreground truck, that a bulldozer was called in to make a level space – that’s a significant pile of sod and earth.

We can see that a near-horizontal platform has been made, and onto that a concrete pad has been laid; presumably with reinforcing steel bars.

Concrete arrives in a fluid form, and so can be leveled by a gravitational force (a tumbler of water makes an impromptu spirit-level) requiring a minimum of labour to make it as close to level as can be achieved by skilled labourers with twenty-foot planks and a genuine spirit level (or nowadays a smart-phone application).

So why go to so much trouble to provide a launch site for eight missiles?

OK. Four trucks; thirty-two missiles.

And therein lies a clue.

Out of our eye-sight are a hundred or more other launchers, ready to be driven in, parked on the pad, leveled to the millimetre from within the truck by a finger-tip adjustment, fired, and then quickly driven back to the replenishment centre while the next truck is as quickly positioned on the launch pad.

Hundreds of times.

It makes sense to have a labouring crew bulldoze and pour hundreds of sites around your territory so that your hundreds of missiles, when required to do so, can choose appropriate launch pads and send the missiles on there way by GPS.

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