956em sovs

IDonT said:

Also, does anybody know how well armored those Sunburn launchers are? I mean a well placed 5 inch gun looks like it would penetrate it setting catastrophic fires and explosions from the missiles fuel.

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That's an old Soviet-era design. If you look at the latest Russian ships, such as the Project 20380, the SSM and ASROC are stored in VLS:


You could add ballistic armor around the missile VLS, though it'd add weight.

well armored enough to withstand blast and shrapnel, I'll tell you that. Proof against a tank gun? Probably not.

IDonT said:

The USN uses, I think Navy Grey, apparently it helps in "comouflaging" the ship.

Also, does anybody know how well armored those Sunburn launchers are? I mean a well placed 5 inch gun looks like it would penetrate it setting catastrophic fires and explosions from the missiles fuel.

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I don't think armoring the missile launcher would be that big a priority. After all Sunburn has a much longer range than a 5" shell. No captin would allow an eneny vessele to venture that close in a hostile situation. If anything is to hit the side of Sov, it would most likely be a SSM rather than a shell. In that case, it doesn't matter how much armor you put on those launchers.

All of them 136,137,138,139 :china:

More from kanwa's recent edition on 956EM. The section on ESM/ECM is particularly interesting.


It mentions that 956EM is using TK25E version 7.2, which is the latest version (newer than 5 that is used on Talwar). It goes in details describing what seems to be one of the most advanced ESM systems developed by the Russians. And then, it also mentionned that China has not enquired about this, but rather is basing its systems off Israeli ones (which we already know). If anything, this shows to me that whatever is on 054 series and 052C should be superior to this.

It looks like the datalink bulb seen on the Y-8 High New types.

The Sovs at full display in these Aug 1 photos. Again, i don't think I've seen these pictures before, but they might be old.

pictures of 138 going out for a sail. Not much going on here, but we don't see too many pictures of sovs.

138 and 525 from ESF visiting the Russian Navy's Pacific Ocean Fleet. You can even see a Russian Sov in one of the pictures I think. At least it looks like one to me.

There are three Russian ships there with masts that have Fregats. They could be Sovs and Udaloys. From what I understand, there is at least one Sov with the Pacific Fleet, and around 3 or 4 Udaloys.