There are many ways to rupture a pressurized vessel or tank car, including impact from a high energy bullet, an IED, a car, a light truck retrofitted with a spearing rod, an improvised explosive device, or a municipal light-rail transit (LRT) crashing into a parked hi-jacked chemical tanker. This type of devastating attack could have a disastrous effect on the security of the average citizen or a city’s economy by temporarily crippling its public transportation.
These scenarios represent high-profile, very plausible, events Terrorists identify easy targets that would require minimal executional planning, resulting in high-profile catastrophes, where the inflicted social, psychological or economic damage would swiftly disrupt the fabric of the American society and its national security.
A solution to circumvent the occurrence of this sequence of events is the implementation of resiliency.