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MiG-29K flying from Vikramaditya (found on paralay, courtesy Djoker)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKm1OEcncek&feature=player_embedded
screenshots from the video…
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From balancers
Vikramaditya aircraft carrier in the Barents Sea
Saturday, September 15, 2012
The captain of the vessel for offshore diving operations Markab Igor Kondranin sent the Maritime Bulletin beautiful photos Vikramaditya aircraft carrier (formerly the Admiral Gorshkov) somewhere in the Barents Sea, issued on 14 or 15 September. The aircraft carrier continues to experience something, but if you remember the story, he is being sold in India way back in 2004, was to join the Indian Navy has commissioned in 2008, after a major overhaul, refurbishment and appropriate tests.
MiG-29K flying from Vikramaditya 🙂 (found on paralay, courtesy Djoker)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKm1OEcncek&feature=player_embedded
Good find. Translation?
Is there any clips showing the 29K lifting off with that strike (dummy) payload?
screenshots from another forum, courtesy Kunal…
Good shots of HHQ16 from Type-054A
The surprising things is PLAN have retained two different launch types for their ships. Hot launch for the 054A and cold launch for new 052D from what it looks like.
Question for PLAN watchers. Are the individual cells of the 64 VL units on 052D in the class of Klub/Yakhont/S-300 class (i.e in dia) or is it in the class of the smaller HHQ 16 on the 054A?
The ‘Marine Forward Base’ you are talking about is Camp Bastion a modest little setup likened in scale to the town of Reading!. Also a base possessed of a 3.5km hard strip runway so its just happenstance that the AV-8B’s were the aircraft hit…it could just as easily been a conventional type. Bagram has been attacked in the same manner several times…I dont recall your equal consternation for USAF F-15E’s though??.
Of course if the aircraft had been parked on an aircraft carrier several miles off shore the low-tech threat like 20 lads in friendly uniforms and suicide vests is somewhat diminished…so more amphibs with STOVL deck capability is the lesson that comes from this it seems.
I’ve been inside Camp Bastion – and it seemed like the safest place on earth
It was supposed to be impregnable – the safest military base in the world. A veritable fortress positioned in the middle of the arid, treeless, empty Helmand desert, isolated but not vulnerable.
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
9:30PM BST 15 Sep 2012It was often said of Camp Bastion that the only correct decision that Britain ever made during its torrid history in Afghanistan was to build the base in the middle of nowhere, with isolation as its primary strength.
Anyone approaching from any direction should be easily spotted, tracked, identified – and, if they pose a threat, destroyed. That was the theory.
But the events of last Friday, when a force of Taliban gunmen managed to move up to and breach the Bastion’s security at around 10.15pm (local time), supposedly without being seen or heard, have sent a shock wave through Nato’s high command.
How feasible would it be to use a swarm of fast attack craft in green waters to take out a larger more powerful better funded Navy?.
the idea at its basic would be to assign each of the boats a speciality and equipment using fused communication and sensors between the various boats to share targets.
At the core of the of the swarm would be to have specialist instrumented boats with Sonar, Radars etc containing light self defence capabilities.
Surrounding this and protecting these boats would be the boats carrying the armaments with limited (this does not necessarily equal useless) detection capabilities to allow adequate escape routes in case the “intelligent” boats are made useless through some attack.
This would be taking the LCS methodoly to a different direction, instead of swapable modules on one ship that does everything, putting the “modules” on specific boats that are small fast and with a small crew.
This could pose problems for aggressor vessels and require greater concentration on possible targets.
Could also potentially dull the point of a Anti Ship Ballistic Missile Systems.
The profiles of the individual boats could be a lot lower allowing them to be stealthier etc…
I don’t know what displacement you had in mind, but such platforms for the same role was/is operational around the world and in India also. If you can do away with that FAC tag, that is exactly what we are likely going to see in the future to counter a more powerful force in ones own backyard without the use of heavy combatants.
So, Is it feasible? – YES.
Pr.21361 could be the one stop shop platform that you might need.
The ~950ton vessel is/can be armed with a wide variety of weapons and can be tailored to meet the specific roles that you demanded.
Patrol/Survelliance
Pr.21630 variant with helo deck.
Anti-Ship
8 x Klub/Yakhont missiles.
ASW
8 x Klub (another variant with hull mounted sonar is there)
Air-Defence
32 x 9M317ME/9M96E/E2 (instead of 8 x cell)
^^^ now you model the number of ships needed to make up a decent force to counter the bully effectively.
Long-Range Radar (just my modelling)
1 x Podberezovik ET2 radar (500Km range) and all the power & processing units being installed in the housing that in other model is used for missiles.
Then for OTH targeting requirements (if need be) there is a variant based on the original Pr.21630 with landing spot for helo. Also, in the last IMDS expo the below version was displayed which is an enlarged version of Pr.21631 in the of ~1500tons.
JMHO
From topwar.ru, an article on the Pr.955 Borei. Translated print version below.
Difficult “genera”
“Later, the number of my deputies joins a very intelligent and well-learned Vladimir A. Zdornov, who became chief designer and project leader of our group. In his role as chief designer submarines of the fourth and fifth generations Zdornov made a decisive and invaluable contribution to the ships of project 955 (“Northwind”) “- recalled Sergei Nikitich.
However, the revision of priorities in the changed geopolitical conditions, lack of government funding and the correction of military requirements for new systems has led to the closure of work on complexes of D-31 and D-35. In 1995, a decree of Russian President approved a proposal to equip the Navy’s Project 955 set of D-19UTTH “Bark” missile with a P-39UTTH development of the State Rocket Center (SRC), named after VP Makeev. This complex was created in the development of the complex D-19 to retrofit submarines of Project 941. The decision to locate the “Boree” heavy and bulky D-19UTTH (12 missiles) required to make significant changes to the original look of the ship.
Bookmark head boats (serial number 201) was held on November 2, 1996 in Severodvinsk, in the Northern machine-building enterprise. However, economic difficulties and a systemic crisis in the “defense” of the country is seriously hindered the pace of construction. At that time, General Director David NSR Pashayeva strong pressure to conduct a large-scale layoffs of Sevmash, as well as to give, for example, to continue the construction of ships of project 949A, dropping them into scrap metal.
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