Russian Navy

[T-55]

Testing anti-aircraft missile system "Tor M2KM" on the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich"

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2517196.html

 

[Barmaley]

Yasen-M Nuclear powered submarine 'Kazan' launched today.

 

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[Hindustani78]

https://sputniknews.com/military/201704021052213196-russia-jamming-device-torpedoes-sonars/


Russian engineers have developed a unique device capable of jamming torpedoes' target-seeking heads and blinding the sonar equipment used by submarines; the device is due to add significantly to the combat capability of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet.

The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported that a miniature device, which is capable of jamming torpedoes' target-seeking heads and submarine sonars has been put into service at the Russian Navy.

"The Small-Size Hydroacoustic Countermeasure Device Vist-2" is launched from a submarine or surface ship and creates a powerful acoustic hindrance, which silences the homing heads of enemy torpedoes or enemy submarine sonars.


"Additionally, the 80-centimeter device, Vist-2, which weighs just 13.5 kilograms, can be transformed into a 'false target' thanks to the emission of a special signal that simulates a ship or a submarine," Izvestia said.


According to experts, the Vist-2 substantially increases the Russian submarine fleet's combat capabilities.

The device's operated time is more than five minutes, a period of time during which a Russian warship or submarine will be able to evade an enemy torpedo or sonar array, according to Izvestia.


In an interview with Izvestia, Russian military expert Mikhail Barabanov said that "until recently, the Russian Navy was inferior to foreign naval forces in terms of creating jamming systems and protecting submarines and warships."


He referred to the MG-34 devices which he said have been used by the Russian Navy since the 1960s and which are already unable to tackle modern self-guided torpedoes.


"As for the Vist-2, it is launched from a small-sized 123mm launcher. The device is on par with Western analogues in terms of performance characteristics," Barabanov said.

Thanks to an electronic unit and the emitter, the device creates hydroacoustic noise in the specified frequency ranges at a certain distance from an enemy submarine.

According to the Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport's website, "as a result, the receiving tracts of [enemy's] torpedo homing system lose the ability to detect submarines."

"Also, the Vist-2 protects submarines "by creating a simulated radiation, in which the torpedo is directed to the drifting Vist-2 device," the website said.

Izvestia, for its part, quoted Russian Pacific Fleet officials as saying that the first batch of the Vist-2 devices was supplied to the fleet late last year.

 

[Penguin]

Testing anti-aircraft missile system "Tor M2KM" on the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich"
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2517196.html

Interesting. Could be a good way to add some self-defence capability to otherwise underarmed ships (e.g. STUFT, or auxiliaries). It is calm seas here. How well would this originally land-based system cope with the motion of the ship in rougher seas? Clearly, the 9K330 Tor system is land mobile. Tor was also the first air defense system in the world designed from the start to shoot down precision-guided weapons day and night, in bad weather and jamming situations. What the system could not do was to fire on the move. However, the newer Tor-M2U reportedly (2015) is able to fire on the move. Trials were conducted at Kapustin Yar range in Russia’s southern Astrakhan region. Moving at 25 km/h over rought terrain the Tor-M2U managed to spot and destroy the target maneuvering eight kilometers away. So, what about this M2KM version used in the ship trial? Is it stabilized? And to what sea state is stabilization sufficient to allow the system's effective use?

http://www. defence talk . com/russias-tor-m2u-air-defense-missile-reported-to-fire-on-the-move-65500/
https://www.rt.com/news/327140-tor-missile-move-launch/

"According to the information of the JSC "Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant" Kupol" (member of Almaz Antey), the main task of the tests was to assess in practice the possibilities of using the Tor-M2KM missile defense system in the interests of the Navy. The tests gave a large amount of information on the impact of sea conditions on the combat operations of the Tor-M2 missile system and confirmed the wide possibilities of using the Tor-M2KM self-contained combat module. "
http://www.navyrecognition.com/inde...-system-from-admiral-grigorovich-frigate.html

Details, people, details!

 

[Prechko]

Sail of "Kazan" SSGN

We can say, considering substantial re-design , Project 885M subs are new sub class of it`s own.

 

[Penguin]

Adm. Essen.

 

[Penguin]

Imagine just the turret sticking out above deck, where the AK630 is in Adm. Essen. Probably too little space though. Could possibly fit if you left off the turret rear, with the search radar. That would have to be mounted atop the hangar and shared by 2 firing units.

 

[Prechko]

Black Sea fleet marines

 

[vostok]

"Boykiy" and "Soobrazitelny" go to the Mediterranean Sea.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Very practical design build it once and load it up , not focusing on tiny tiny boats

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Best chemoflauge award find these uniforms just very effective

 

[Penguin]

Very practical design build it once and load it up , not focusing on tiny tiny boats

In essence, a modernized Soviet Krivak III, using design imputs for/from P17 class. The only thing I do no like is that it went back/down to just 2 AK630. Kashtan may not be thgreated, but newer Russian ships use Palma/Palash, and this could also use e.g. naval version of Pantsir.

 

[vostok]

In St. Petersburg, laid a patrol ship of the ice class project 23550 "Ivan Papanin"