Wanshan, as I said, I didn’t post the Talwar model picture! You all know what it looks like and I don’t want to overload my piece of modelwarships.com!
Gary, that certainly isn’t a VLS Yezh launcher, the ships doesn’t have any Orekh guidance radar for that missile and the large radome on top of the bridge makes me suggest its a guidance radar (Garpun?) for Klub or maybe even Yakhont. About the same VLS as the Talwar’s!
These are indeed export intended ships, since they were displayed at IMDS2003, which is a “market” for getting export contracts.
AK-630 is very cheap, but has become less effective in the current days. The Bass Tilt radar can do both searching and tracking, but can only track 1 single target, so with one radar and two gun mounts it can still only attack one missile… Kashtan is of course better, because of its dual layered defense, but is of course much more space consuming and more importantly much more expensive!

Neustrashimiy doesn’t carry Uran, the second in class, Yaroslavl Mudry, meant to be commissioned in 2005 was supposed to have Uran, but in the first unit there was no guidance radar for it on the original design and I suppose they’ll have some trouble putting it somewhere too. On top of the Bridge, they’ll have to relocate the Kite Screetch and put some extra platform on it. Then they have to be sure not to get any intereference… Don’t know if they have taken the effort.

Again with many thanks to Guy Toremans! This is a larger version, it likely has a towed array of some kind, two Kashtans, helicopter (and maybe torpedo tubes in that hatch?) and of course a main gun. There is a third one, with helicopter, torpedo tubes, two AK-630s and an 8-cell VLS, for Klub I think and a hull mounted sonar.The largest one in these series is the Talwar design.

Yes they do… Picture of Nakat has shown that already. So, it would indeed not be impossible to have the Uran launchers exchanged for Yakhont ones.

Seems to carry Uran though… Picture Courtesy of Guy Toremans, taken at IMDS2003, so this one is likely to be an export version?
Note the waterjet propulsion, which is also used in the larger version with helicopter.

That’s not Goshkov, it’s probably Kiev… Gorskov had a completely different weapons fit…


Now that’s Gorshkov!

And what questions would be solved by that? That it has a port anchor?
What is quite weird, is that we got some pics of the two LPG-tankers next to it, but no one seems to have noticed these were being built in that very same yard! Or was it built somewhere else and towed there for outfitting? And if it was built in this yard, wouldn’t there be any 114 in that yard somewhere?
Hydropod, Burkes didn’t have a Hangar at first, only refueling station I think. But now they have altered that too. For China, it is most important to get more ships with helicopters, so why bother building another desing without those facilities.
The measurement. Maybe this hangar is optimized for Z-9, which is probably quite a bit lower than Ka-28…
I agree with Wanshan that it might be just a slightly modified Shenzhen with just some things changed and upgraded, with Type730 CIWS and HQ-7. The SSM load is a mistery though, the spaces where the current SSMs are located are occupied by small accomodation parts.
Maybe the new missile, like the one on Type52C?

Vaiar, who keeps you from making it more active? I used to do that, but sometimes you start realising it’s useless, since some members left and then it dies down again. At this moment I don’t have the courage to give it another try. (add to that that we have some internal trouble).
Anyway, for Jonesy’s question, I had that very same question. Although I suppose USN can get all their aircraft in the hangar if necessary too. For Gorshkov, I think it shouldn’t be done. If the planes are in this small place, I think it should be necessary to have 6 of them parked on the deck, that would make it possible to move the planes in the hangar, which is quite unlikely if the hangar is full of planes. Also, if they only bought 16 MiGs, then it would be normal to keep some stationed on land, for practice and maintenance/upgrade/testing.