The 127/54 of the LCFs are old guns bought from Canada. They were originally built for the Iroquois-class destroyers in the 1970s.

The “complexity” of the 127/64 makes it the better gun, e.g. faster firing.

So? They are still the same gun as on the Kongo’s… which was the point.

China’s new Yuan-class sub seen preparing for sea trials

A new variant of the Type 039C/Type 041 Yuan-class conventional submarine with a raked sail

What is new, exactly?

Very much agree with Jonesy and Yama above: Russia has no need for those vessel. What about army and airforce equipment?

What is SAAB’s capacity to actually enter this kind of market? Even poaching the staff from TKMS it is a huge undertaking to enter the submarine business.

I suppose in an ideal world TKMS would sell that part of the business to Saab and everybody can move on but I could also see them trying to asset strip and shut down instead now the Swedish government have decided to pause procurement.

What capacity does the Swedish government under their law to nationalise the yard if it is for strategic national defence reasons?

Saab Maneuvers To Buy Swedish Submarine Maker

Sweden — three years after selling its national submarine-maker Kockums to Germany’s ThyssenKrupp — is now fighting to wrest control of its indigenous sub-building capability from the German giant.
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Saab, which maintains that it could quickly create the capacity needed to build and modernize submarines, has declined to comment on market reports that it is engaged in exploratory talks that could see it takeover TKMS’ operations from ThyssenKrupp.

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140302/DEFREG01/303020012/Saab-Maneuvers-Buy-Swedish-Submarine-Maker

Saab has contended that it could meet the needs to design, build and refit submarines, however, it has declined to comment suggestions that it might take control of the TKMS yard.

http://www.ibtimes.com/saab-angling-take-control-thyssenkrupp-submarine-yard-sweden-1559035

A defence source told The Local on Monday that Saab had begun to poach Kockums staff, the latest twist in a standoff, said to threaten Swedish defence capacity, between the Swedish submarine makers and their German owners….
A defence source told The Local at the time that TKMS’s purchase of Kockums had been a long-term strategy to kill off a rival on the market.

“The purchase of Kockums wasn’t aimed at consolidating the naval industry and creating synergies, but at getting rid of a competitor,” the German source said in October.

The same source said on Monday that the naval industry was awash with speculation that Saab was poaching staff in order to set up its own submarine unit.

http://www.thelocal.se/20140310/saab-poaches-kockums-submarine-engineers

Sweden Blocks Submarine Purchase.

The Government Stops Planned Submarine Deal

The Swedes are trying to rescue their submarine knowledge base, as TKMS slowly strangles Kockums to death?

1st Zubr has been commissioned.

I get the impression the Chinese dispensed with the rocket launchers.

Hi,

Great shots!
Do you have photos with the 8 cell vls hatches assembly of the Brahmos?

Thanks.
Regards,
Ayala Botto

AFAIK it is fired from the Russian 3R-14UKSK-Kh, which is standard in Talwar, Shivalik classes.

http://www.concern-agat.com/products/defense-products/81-concern-agat/90-uksk

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the 3R-14UKSK shipboard missile system with its multipurpose weapon-control system is designed to destroy surface, ground and underwater targets by means of the BrahMos (PJ-10), 3M-54E, 3M-14E, and 91RE2 missiles loaded in any combination into a multipurpose missile launcher. Thus, this single system incorporates all the advantages of the Club-N and BrahMos missile systems.

http://www.concern-agat.com/

The only other installation I can think of would be that used on the ex-Dutch Van Speijk class frigates in Indonesian (KRI) service to launch Yakhont. However, I’m not sure of its designation. See:
http://www.naval-technology.com/news/news117283.html
http://army.lv/ru/p-800/foto/3065/764
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?197173-Indonesian-Navy-TNI-AL-Launched-Yakhont-21-April-2011
http://www.russiadefence.net/t561p30-p-800-yakhont
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/strategic-forces/52096-half-cousin-brahmos-p-800-yakhont-brahmos.html

The loss of 2 (or even 4) LHDs would of course be a blow for Russia, but not a catastrophic one. More important is the progress of the shipyard upgrades and other items of technology transfer intended to assist in the regeneration of the Russian Navy over the next 15 years.

And how is that going to happen without the French?