I used the translator and it says at medium altitude its range is 300 km

I know. But they are repeating numbers for export version Yakhont on to Onyx. The vid I linked is from the horses mouth stating range of Onyx at low alt no less then 340 km.

http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/1981067

Bal coastal missile complex will get a modernized 300km ranged Kh-35.

About 300 kilometers. The Ship and shore versions all have range of 260 km. Only the air launched version has more 290 km for the newest version. Those AFAIK have not been tested.

It is. I wish they modernized the place.

Su-25 also had redundant systems, and apparently much heavier armor than A-10. To quote myself (I’ve translated from a source I currently can’t find it on my pc.)

755 kg was a total amount devoted for protection and only 2/3 of that weight was for the titanium armor if I recall correctly.

A-10C has a clear electronic advantage over the cheaper Su-25SM upgrade. The latter does not even have MAWS.
Both vanilla birds are horribly outdated in any case.

Su-25SM3 really should be the bare minimum for any new CAS purchases/modernizations. Flying either the A-10 and Su-25 without DIRCM today is just stupid.

You know what would also be nice ? For MoD stop ******* around and provide the funding for Tula to finish Hermes ******* A’s

Unless they start building Leader in next few years It won’t be joining ranks at least not till late 2020’s.

I don’t think this paint-job cost that much, kept already existing personnel busy, that’s about it.

You might have a point there.

No, Pantsir-SM will have a new 40 km range hypersonic missile which hasn’t been shown yet. The 23YA6 missile which is the upgrade missile for current domestic pantsir’s replacing the 95YA6 series* has a range of 30 km(35 km). Which was already tested back in April

see

http://vpk-news.ru/news/20071

and

http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/729304

* Which themselves went through revisions

Did Medvedka achieve operational status in the end?. Thought for a while there was a niche for a lightweight system able to throw an asw torpedo out beyond the effective range of the over-the-side shots.

Especially given the emergence of lightweight tails that have given very modest hulls a convergence zone capability. Hulls that, where they feature an aviation capability, may not have huge fuel, sparing and crew facilities for sub hunting choppers.

Make the medvedka system adaptable for a range of LWTs and I thought they really had an export winner on their hands there.

It did and was offered for export. But it’s hard to sell something for export if you yourself ain’t using it I would think. Well the project 22350 is supposed to have Medvedka’s according to some, but folks on Balancer in the know says thats not true.

With India looking to replace Abhay-class corvette’s. I would think they would try to market Medvedka’s to them. Maybe offer a ASuW variant based on Project 21630 hull with Medvedka’s and RBU-6000 or something of sorts.

Re. Modernization, everything I had seen from reliable sources (indirect like Balancers, Kulashev’s blog, etc, to Zvedochkas blogspot) indicated this did not include any modernization. Well, nothing past the small typical stuff (navigation radars, new screens).

I remember Zvezdochka shipyard was qouted by media saying that modernization of ship missile systems would happen as last task in 2015

see for one.

http://www.flot.com/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=147276

Cannot find a direct qoute right now. What those systems were was a speculation however it seems by media. My mistake on my part sorry.

I did not expect any SAM upgrade at all, even Fort-M would be great. Redut I think is out of the question, it would require a totally new sensor suit (not just Podberezovik). Plus, no hints from any other enterprises that would be involved if Redut was indeed ordered for this ship.

Well if they keep the Top Dome we will know the answer. And best we can hope that Fort will be replaced with Fort-M. But I have some slight hope now. And I can see them using slava’s as a test bed for krepost part (big cells for 40N6,48N6DM and quad packed 9M96M/DM/M2) of the Redut-K (Krepost) system.

I am also skeptical at anything like Gorshkov’s lavish Furke-4, I expect a modern two face Fregat at best.
Then again who knows, this came without any warning. Makes the long out of service time slightly more tolerable, and hopefully also means good things for the other ships of the class.

My reasoning here is Fregat’s are lacking with quite a gap in terms of range compared to Podberezovik. 5P-27 is supposed to have a same range as poliment which has supposed range of 400 km. I would think this 5P-27M at least slightly longer range and thus would be a lot more of ideal choice then any fregat.

On the other hand domestic fregat’s could have longer range then what is offered for export. A good example of it are Pozitiv-M radars.

First offering

http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=193268

Later offering (same as domestic spec at least interms of range)

http://www.concern-agat.ru/ru/produktsiya/radiolokatsiya/aktivnye-radiolokatsionnye-stantsii-pozitiv-me1-me1-2

However I doubt that’s the case with Fregat’s.