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Russia’s Armored Trains Are Back: Here’s How Ukraine is Fighting Them
In Russia, the road is a rumor, the highway is an adventure, but the railway is sacred. When the army advances, the very first thing that follows is the railhead, complete with an armored train.
If you had “armored trains” on your 2025 Ukraine war bingo card, congratulations, you’re either a longtime reader of my work, a time traveler from the age of Rasputin, or just someone who knows that Russia has never met a Soviet military idea it didn’t want to drag out for one last world tour.
Yet here we are, scrolling past TikToks of hypersonic missiles and AI-powered drone swarms, only to see Moscow rolling steel-plated choo-choos across the steppe like it’s staging a remake of GoldenEye on a vodka budget.
Russian state media, never shy about giving us the world’s most pathetic military parades, has been parading the “Yenisey” like it’s the pride of their fleet: a fortress on rails packed with enough firepower to make any James Bond villain green with envy.
The Yenisey is a Franken-train’s monster of military nostalgia: anti-aircraft guns here, Utyos heavy machine guns there, and just for extra flavor, a full-on BMP-2 infantry…
