Armored Train

The Armored Train is an unusable North Korean vehicle featured in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.

Overview
The Armored Train is a North Korean military train used to move troops and supplies via North Korea's extensive railway network. The trains appear to be ordinary trains that have been heavily reinforced with massive armor plating and heavy guns, and consist of 3 models: An engine with pair of open-top rotary cannons, a fully armored boxcar with two remote controlled rotary cannons on top and two on the sides, and a partially armored passenger car with no armaments.

These trains are only scenery and are never seen moving or engaging enemies with their armaments, however they do appear in context sensitive situations such as at Sariwon train station during Bait and Switch.

Armored Trains take 3 RPG hits or 1 C4 to destroy, but there is no reward for doing so.

Real Life
Military Armored Trains have largely fallen out of use as combat vehicles after World War II due to their limited tactical mobility, large signature, ease of sabotage, and vulnerability to aircraft. North Korea is not known to possess any military armored trains, however they do have a fleet of green and yellow luxury armored trains famously used by the Kim Dynasty and their inner-circle to travel around the country and abroad.

Related pages

 * KPA ground vehicles in Playground of Destruction