INS Vikramaditya Test-Firing *Something* - What Is It?

[Ankit_Pujari]

Perhaps the first visual of the Aircraft Carrier launching one of its defensive weapon systems.
Spent a fair bit of time this morning trying to identify the weapon. Couldn't positively associate it with any of the known systems supposed to be on-board - the RBU-6000 Anti-Submarine weapon,

the Kashtan with its 9M311 Missile

or the 3K95 Kinzhal, & definitely not the AK-630 gun. Looking at the projectile, it seems to have been launched from a system with multiple-launchers.

Interestingly, the picture of the test-firing was taken last year, during the first sea trial, states the contributor. Nothing of it seems to have appeared in the media, possibly getting overshadowed by news of the boiler failure & the more "glamorous" flight-testing of the MiG-29K & KUB.

INS Vikramaditya Test-Firing *Something* & Other Visual "Awesomenesses"! - AA Me, IN

betting my money on it being a newer variant of the RBU-6000 Depth charge. If it would have been something with an altogether different name, our desi media would have picked up the development. A newer version of the old system wouldn't catch their attention

 

[SRP]

@Abingdonboy @sancho @Dillinger needed your views about this

 

[scholseys]

maybe some chinese made missile....since the bricks are already from China

 

[Hellraiser007]

maybe some chinese made missile....since the bricks are already from China

Great .....!!!! then India got the Chinese missiles faster than China itself

 

[SRP]

maybe some chinese made missile....since the bricks are already from China

No these are Bangladeshi *th generation superfast self banging missiles.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

@Abingdonboy @sancho @Dillinger needed your views about this

Pic 1 is the RBU ASW Rocket projectile. Can't see Pic 2. Pics 3 & 4 seem to show a similar weapon, though not the same.
Not a SAM.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

maybe some chinese made missile....since the bricks are already from China

Um yeah; Chinese made "flying bricks"; reverse-engineered fom BanglaDeshi bricks that were used in that building that collapsed killing over 1K BanglaDeshis. 10th gen weapons. Happy now?

 

[me_itsme]

maybe some chinese made missile....since the bricks are already from China

Sad attempt bro.

 

[SRP]

Sad attempt bro.

He/She is a well known attempter but his/her attempts always go in vein.

 

[Koovie]

A carrier with ASW rockets ..... thats strange.

 

[Anony]

These pics are from 2012 sea-trials.

 

[DeathInvader]

Self Delete

 

[SirHatesALot]

the first pic is RBU-6000

You don't say

 

[Fireaxe888]

Photon torpedoes?

 

[Capt.Popeye]

A carrier with ASW rockets ..... thats strange.

That is not strange on Soviet/Russian ships. The first Soviet Carriers of the "Kiev class" (which they called anti-submarine cruisers) were V/STOL ships. They were 'beefed-up' surface ships. The armament was awesome: Heavy SSM launchers, SAM launchers, ASW rocket launchers, Two Twin 76 mm Gun Mounts and 8 CIWS gun mounts. Now that was the armament that most Surface Ships would envy! The reason(s) for that was: their doctrine saw Carriers as ASW ships to attack enemy subs rather than Attack Carriers in the Western Doctrines; and the Soviet/Russian design concept has always seen each ship as a more autonomous unit than in the West. So while the Carriers would have screening ships; their CBGs were rather less elaborate in their composition. That philosophy has not changed dramatically though it is closer to western ideas now. They used a similar concept when designing their sensor fitments for their ships. Usually a Soviet/Russian Ship bristles with more Radar Scanners and Antennas than similar sized Western Warships, resulting in far greater 'redundant capacity'. Even that is changing but not sompletely so.

Vikramaditya in her previous avatar as the Gorshkov had even heavier armaments; most of which have been removed to fit the Ski-Jump forward.