https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmo_3uJD6kA

Vid from Burevestnik.

Shows A-190 and the new 57mm mount A-220M firing.

Nice RoF on the 57mm :love-struck:

Iran has got around to sinking that fake aircraft carrier:

Well I say sink as going on this video the IRGC are making a bit of a hash of it!

Pics with this story http://news.yahoo.com/irans-guard-begins-military-exercises-near-key-strait-065746514.html

Hilarious exercise: as if a US carrier woud a) not move, b) have no armament, c) have no air wing and d) have no escorts.

“American aircraft carriers are very big ammunition depots housing a lot of missiles, rockets, torpedoes and everything else,” the Guard’s navy chief, Adm. Ali Fadavi, said on state television. A direct hit by a missile could set off a large secondary explosion, he added.

Fadavi last month boasted that his force is capable of sinking American aircraft carriers in the event of war. He previously called carriers easy targets and said Iran naturally wants to sink them.

SUppose he never read this: http://www.insensitivemunitions.org/history/third-revision-of-the-navy-insensitive-munitions-policy-and-the-u-s-military-standard-defining-the-insensitive-munitions-requirements/ or http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Media-Center/Fact-Sheets/Combat-Safe-Insensitive-Munitions.aspx

MD-500 Defender
Length: 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m)
Rotor diameter: 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m)
Height: 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Disc area: 544.63 ft² (50.60 m²)

Armament
four TOW anti-tank missiles, or two 7.62mm General Electric M134 Miniguns plus ammuntion, or four General Dynamics Stinger air-to-air missile, or
Mk 44 or Mk 46 lightweight torpedoes (ASW Version), or two seven-shot rocket pods

Sea Hawk
Length: 64 ft 8 in (19.75 m)
Rotor diameter: 53 ft 8 in (16.35 m)
Height: 17 ft 2 in (5.2 m)
Disc area: 2,262 ft² (210 m²)

INS Vikramaditya’s operation crippled

http://nosint.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/ins-vikramadityas-operation-crippled.html

http://youtu.be/EsPSdbU0JuY 45 sec. No problems there.

“The Naval fighter carries out high-speed landing by hooking on to any of the arrester wires stretched across the flight deck. In case it fails to hook, it should take off all over again. If an engine fails during flight, the fighter is forced to do a single-engine landing. But its power to take off just in case the arrester wires are missed is suspect. Therefore, the carrier doesn’t operate too far away from the shores,” a source said.

The problem is touch and go on 1 engine?

The biggest issue is that Sovs and the Chinese ship don’t have the same level of data sharing or communication that the newer Chinese ships have with each other, so they are not really been used up to thei rmaximum capacity. So the sovs will probably get all the Chinese combat system, radar, communication systems and such so they can more effective command & operate with other ships. It will also be better for support later.

THen again, there is a large correspondence with 052Bs

What’s the difference between PDMS and VSHORADS? PDMS might refer to a short range anti FAC/FIAC weapon.

I think, in this context, PDMS would be someting like Barak or RAM, while vshorads would be something like Gibka or or Simbad RC.

The Type 051B is outdated not only in regard of its machines, but especially in regard of its sensors and the air-defence system. Did it still had HQ-7 prior to this refit?

The already upgraded 052s retained their HQ-7.

So, if they are not requiring any rotary wing facilities, it shall be something along Germany’s K-130 corvette, otherwise Steregushi would be a more adeherent reference.

At least if they do not expect to pack all that stuff in a hull comparable to the Tarantul itself.

The question I still ask myself is which real use could IN have in the XXI century for a corvette.

They have just one littoral scenario, the western one, and a single fregate could do better than two corvettes being more flexible.

Getting rid of anything not ocean going save the usual coast guard and SAR hulls could prove more sensibile both financially and operationally.

A Khukri/Kora class replacement: bigger than these, yet smaller than Kamorta class. Ships of these two classes have been on fleet deployments with larger units, e.g. to Singapore, Philippines, Malta even.