If you look where the gap is – it seems to have holes going into the hull. not just attached to it
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In this view the shadow indicates that it is held away from the hull.
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Hi Jinan,

I am familiar with the Prairie-Masker system, which I believe relates to the acoustic signature reduction of radiated noise.
The tubes on the Neustrashimy are ‘dry’ and I think may be related to reducing the IR signature. This coupled to the active decoy flares would cover quite a bit of the electro-magnetic spectrum. But I am still looking for any open source reference as to what the hell it is. I am trawling through the Russian Patents, but have not found it yet.

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The attached photo shows ‘the tube’ and a piece of what some are calling RAM sheeting in place over the torpedo launch tubes. There is clearly a lot of effort being made to reduce the signature of this class of ship.
I would welcome the thoughts and experience of others …

Admiral Gorshkov Frigate.

The whole Pr 22350 build is so important it will be worth the wait to get a decent engine in the thing. Can they continue building ships while leaving space for the engines to be fitted when they become available? It’s one of the best looking ships I’ve seen for years.

Neustrashimy

Thanks for that CayceG, I had a feeling that it was some sort of ”Stealth” contraption. Not quite a ”Cloaking” device yet though!
I would still like to hear from others as to what they think – or know – it to be.
I’ve never seen either of the ships, yet, but would love to solve the puzzle.

I’m not sure where to ask this … so I’ll start here. The Project 11540 Yastreb or Neustrashimy as I know it, has an unusual feature down each side of the hull. There is a narrow tube, held a short distance from the hull for most of its length. I was told that this was a water spray system, used in part to make the ship more difficult to detect visually. Anyone got any real facts as to what these two ‘spray-bars’ are?

Way back in 1974 whilst serving at RAF Coningsby I delivered an identical Halifax control column to the RAF Museum in Hendon. It had been found in the roof of a barn on a nearby farm still wrapped in greaseproof paper in a wooden crate. The finder handed it into the local Lincoln Aviation Museum at which I was a ‘helper’. It was decided to donate it to the RAF Museum as there had recently been a Halifax recovered from a Nordic frozen lake. Photos of the recovered wreck showed that it was lacking a control column. We got a lot of strange looks while on the tube with the thing which was a handful to manage.
It’s probably in a box somewhere …

Which begs the question …
Just who’s coast is it going to ‘guard’?

No Gentlemen, no … not Nuclear Fission (nasty dirty contamination etc) splitting atoms and making a mess
Nuclear Fusion – the atoms come together, nicely. Energy is released gently.

Seriously … look it up.

If we get our act together we could develop this into a world class industry and solve the energy producing crisis we are all heading for but choose to ignore.