Soviet Navy Project 1157 Cruiser
Designed in the late 1980s to meet the Russian Navy’s urgent demand to counterbalance the US Aleigh Burke class destroyer, Project 1157 cruiser is equipped with 4 X-band radars, hundreds of missiles including SA-N-24 (sea based S400), 4 Kashtan Air Defence Gun/Missile System, four gas turbines, the ship controls over 300KM radius of battle space with the full speed of 33 knots. Basically, Project 1157 cruiser is a stealth upgrade of the Slava class cruiser, and if the communist Russia ever survived, the Project 1157 cruiser would become the most dreadful surface vessel in the 21st century.
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TYPE 1157 CLASS
Country Of Origin: Russia & States
Designation: Cruiser
Class: TYPE 1157
In Service: N/A
In Development: N/A
DIMENSIONS
Displacement: 13,200.0 (Tons) (Fully Loaded)
Length: 186.0 (Metres)
Beam: 20.8 (Metres)
Draught: 7.6 (Metres)
Speed: 33.0 (Knots)
Range: 6000 at 15 kts (Miles)
Preliminary design of Cavour
1991 – 15/16.000 tons full load Garibaldi improved
1996 – 18/20.000 tons full load, about 200 m, small STOVL carrier
1997/9 – 20.000 multipurpose platform – Project 163 and 168
no image at the moment. 200 m, 50 m dock for 2 LCAC, 4 Harrier, 6-8 helicopters, 25 knot, 500 troops
In the meantime, the requirement for a new aircraft carrier as well as the basic concept of the NUM had been approved by the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff and by the Minister of Defence in 1997. But it was not before early 1998 that more details concerning the new designs that the MMI was looking at were made public by MMI officials (including the Navy’s Chief of Staff and the Head of the Studies/New Constructions Department of the General Staff) appearing before the Parliament’s Defence Committees in February 1998 for the program approval (a purely informative process as a defence program doesn’t require such a formal approval). It was made clear that the new ship would be able to operate, depending on the circumstances, as a primarily STOVL aircraft carrier, or a Helicopter Assault Ship (LPH), or an amphibious landing ship (LPD) and even as a strategic transport ship. The overall size of the ship had been increased to a full load displacement of 20’800t (15’800t light), a length of 218m (195.8m wl) and a width of 39m (29.5m wl).The propulsion system was still based on two gas turbines and two props providing a top speed slightly over 25 knots and a range of 7’000nm at a cruising speed of 16 knots (18 days without replenishment), with a typical mission autonomy of 45 days. There was initially no ski-jump fitted, but that structure was later added to the design.
The flight-deck was served by two elevators, one forward of the island to starboard, and the other (of the deck-edge type) aft of the island to starboard. Accommodations for up to 620 amphibious troops were included, while the ship was supposed to be manned by a crew of 420, with 200 additional people for the air group and command/flag facilities for 140 people, for a total capacity of around 1’380. A 25 x 14m stern docking-well would have allowed the use of traditional landing crafts or a far more expensive and capable LCAC-type platforms. single hangar/garage deck
2000 – Final Project 168A – True STOVL ship
Actual desing without dock and improved displacement for JSF.
Remain some anfibious capacity. It can operate as LPH (with 325-400 marines), (luxury!!) Ro-Ro vessel with to ramp (aft and side) by 60 tons, 3 LCVP, 3 RHIB and motor lauch
He can´t be serious. The MMI does know how to get their 10 FREMM funded.
Now we funded only 6 vessel.
The LHD are scheduled for 2018,2022 and 2028 with start of work on 1st on 2013.
Another version of Corvette, similar of Fulgosi class
Little ot but very interesting. Italian best seller OTO 76 SR naval gun terrestrial version, inverse way of Pzh 155mm but a failure anyway
There is also the rumored 27,500 ton AOR purchase by India? Perhaps this design is also being proposed to the RN for the MARS requirement?
Itn’s a rumor but the contract was signed in July. Maybe the ship is under costruction.
Fincantieri is building 4 patrol vessel Saettia mk4 for Iraq.
Similar was build for Malta (mk3) and Italian Coast Guard (mk2)
Before, LHD/LPD 20.000 tons design proposed in 2005/6
LHD 16.000 tons design proposed in late 2006 for Turkey. Monday undersecretary of Defence said that Italian Navy build 3 of this ship for replace Santi LPD. In the same hull Fincantieri proposed an 18.000 tons AOR
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