Showing posts with label sea trials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea trials. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Admiral Makarov On Trials.

A very interesting video from TV Zvezda on Admiral Makarov's sea trials, before being assigned to the Black Sea Fleet. Operations of AD Complex (ZRK) Shtil' are especially interesting. Per earlier post today, this system may be installed on Project 22160 patrol ships.  

    

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

This Is Rather Interesting.

A trials of a new modification of a venerable Tor, Tor-M2MKM,  air defense system by means of placing a ground based system...on board of Admiral Grigorovich. Ship's speed: 7 knots, sea state 1-2. Two targets: one "aircraft" at 1000 meters, another sea-skimmer with Harpoon's properties. You can see this rather interesting operation here:


The navalized version of Tor is Kinzhal (a dagger), so, as media sources state, this whole thing with "navalization" is means to an end of a complete cross-service unification of such air defense systems. I can only speculate how this could be done but I don't want to. Make your own conclusions. It is a very effective short-range (12 kilometers) system which handles over-the-surface targets quite well. Upgrading Kinzhal on project 1155 (Udaloy-class) Large ASW Ships also seems only natural. Plus there are some other, smaller, ships coming which may use this rather robust air defense capability.