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As it happens, Moscow is actively marketing its SS-25 ICBM as a "START I space launch vehicle, " complete with its standard-issue mobile transporter-erector-launcher.
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Is it possible, therefore, that one could be transporting a Scud-type missile -- loaded, not in its hold under sacks of concrete, but onto a transporter-erector-launcher -- and remain undetected as it moved within range of one of America's many littoral population centers?
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On transporter erector-launchers, they simply erect it, fire off a ballistic missile, put it down, cover it up.
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