Ok Jonesy, can’t promise anything, this system has always been quite secret and sometimes he doesn’t like telling me or sometimes he does and asks me NOT to put that in public. But, this is very out of his “interest”. But I’ll ask it anyway.
That depth charge would indeed be a bad idea. I’ll post the acig post about this system here:
“A 1960 decree of the Soviet government directed the development of a new generation of submarine-launched ASW weapons. The decree assigned several of the country’s top research activities to the program, with the initial effort placed under a most unusual chief designer, Lieutenant General Fyodor Petrov, an artillery and rocket specialist. Two variant of the new weapon would be produced as the RPK-2 V’yuga (blizzard), with both given the NATO designation SS-N-15 Starfish. The V’yuga-53 variant had a diameter of 533-mm and – like the U.S. SUBROC – would carry a nuclear depth bomb; the Soviet weapon had a 20-kt kiloton warhead. After launching from a standard torpedo tube, the weapon would streak to the surface, where its solid-propellant rocket would ignite; the missile would travel out to some 21½ nm (40 km) with the nuclear depth bomb entering the water to detonate at a preset depth. It was developed specifically for launching from the Project 705 (Alfa) SSN.
The larger V’yuga-65 variant was a 650-mm weapon, launched from the large-diameter tubes fitted in the Project 671RTM (Victor III) and later submarines. This weapon had a solid-propellant rocket to deliver a small, 400-mm diameter ASW homing torpedo. The range was to be similar to the 533-mm weapon.
After initial underwater trials with a fixed launcher, a T-43 minesweeper was fitted with a 650-mm launch tube for sea trials of the V’yuga-65. Then the Whiskey-class diesel submarine S-65 was converted to a test platform (Project 613RV), being fitted with a fairwater over the bow that housed two 650-mm tubes. The S-65 carried out sea trials of both weapons in 1964-68, using internal torpedo tubes for the 533-mm variant. The missile could be launched down to depths of 60 m.
Both weapons became operational in 1969.
The V’yuga evolved into the follow-on RPK-6 Vodopad (waterfall) and RPK-7 Veter (wind) missiles. Again, both were given a single NATO designation, SS-N-16 Stallion. The Vodopad was a 533-mm weapon and the Veter a 650-mm weapon. They could carry either a 400-mm ASW homing torpedo or a nuclear depth bomb. Also, the weapons would be torpedo-tube launched; streak to the surface, where their solid-propellant rocket engines would ignite; and fly toward the target. The 533-mm missile had a range of some 20 nm (37 km), while the larger missile colud reach 55 nm (100 km) and carried a larger payload. The missile could be launched from depths down to 200 m.
Two Romeo-class diesel submarines were reconfigured as test craft (Project 633RV), with two 650-mm torpedo tubes fitted in a fairwater built over their bows. The modified S-49 was delivered in 1973 and the similar S-11 in 1982. After successful trials, the 533-mm Vodopad became operational in Soviet submarines in 1981, followed by the 650-mm Veter in 1984. They were placed aboard Project 671RT (Victor II) and Project 705 (Alfa) and later SSNs as the Project 949 (Oscar) SSGN.”
source: “Cold War Submarines”, by Polmar and Moore
What came to my mind was the fact that there was no 300kg HE mentioned…
Well, it is mentioned, but not as a depth charge…. Could it have been a anti-ship variant? I will ask this to my source. I recall hearing that some time ago, that it was somewhat similar to Musson in that regard.
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