Ankit_Pujari
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INS Vikramaditya Test-Firing *Something* & Other Visual "Awesomenesses"! - AA Me, INPerhaps 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.
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 A newer version of the old system wouldn't catch their attention