Naval Weapon Systems & Technology

Anti-torpedo Paket-E/NK - domestic priority

In the journal "Arsenal Fatherland" (number 3 (17) of 2015) published interesting to art-known expert on naval underwater weapons Maxim Klimov "Antitorpedy - domestic priority," contain enough detailed information about the incoming Russian Navy and offered for export complex torpedo protection "Paket-E/NK" developed by JSC "State Research and Production Enterprise" Region "(now part of the JSC" Corporation "Tactical Missiles"). Our blog brings to attention the author's version of the article.



Today anti-torpedo complex "Paket-E/NK" has the highest, compared with competitors, reliable torpedo potential to defeat the attacking torpedoes.

Studies on the ability to effectively defeat the attacking torpedoes were launched in anti-torpedo SSPE "Region" in the second half of the 80s of the last century.

They became the foundation of a big experience in the development of high-precision, high-performance characteristics of homing systems (PRS), high-speed anti-aircraft missiles - APR-2, APR-3, receiving high praise not only in the Soviet Navy naval aviation, but also abroad.

The development of digital technology has allowed for the second half of the 1980s to put the question on the possibility of high-speed precision underwater ordnance (antitorpedo) on high-speed small objects (attacking torpedo). At the same time, the customer had set very strict reliability requirements for solving the problem of torpedo defense (PTZ). These requirements (defeat torpedoes on the criterion of "the destruction of the body"), required to ensure a very high pointing accuracy and the use of powerful warhead.

Initially, in the late 1980s was based on the development of the domestic digital microelectronics, and the first version of CCH antitorpedo been implemented on it, with some limitations to provide a reliable solution to the problem only to defeat torpedoes on board of the submarine. The development of microelectronics has allowed in the early 1990s to put the possibility of effective application anti-torpedo for PTZ surface ships. Later it was sold to a complex "Paket-E/NK".

Despite the difficult 1990s, the potential of SSPE "Region", under the leadership of the Director General Shahidzhanova ES, was not only saved but also significantly developed. The world's first actual prototypes anti-torpedo guidance on high-speed torpedo goals were made in the range of Feodosia Navy in 1998..

It should be noted that these tests were conducted in extremely difficult (hydro-logical) conditions for work CLO anti-torpedo, and yet the test successfully held with providing sightings on a torpedo with high accuracy (provided by the demand for "the destruction of the body" attacking torpedoes).

Today, the complex "Paket-E/NK" includes:
• Compact anti-torpedo;
• small-size submarine torpedo for hitting;
• launcher;
• sonar torpedo detection and targeting;
• complex management system.

Complex "Paket-E/NK" has a modular design and a large modernization potential.

It is interesting to compare the efficacy of a complex "Paket-E/NK" with similar products (complexes) in other countries.
The development of active complexes with PTA anitorpedo in the west were made in Germany - SeaSpider, USA - Tripwire (TTDS), Italy and France - MU90HK.

The most successful was the development of the US Navy, which ended in June 2014. with impressive demonstration of the real solution of the problem PTZ in newest aircraft carrier CVN-77 "George HW Bush" of torpedoes "Type Mk-48".

Despite the fact that the real out-rights of TTX ant-itorpedo Tripwire of US Navy were not disclosed, it should be assumed (by the use of unique and highly complex power plant on the lithium fluoride to the turbine closed cycle) that achieved, high speed and range anti-torpedo.

However, the main criterion for assessing the effectiveness of the active complex PTZ are not a "table performance" products and the reliability of solving the problem of PTA (the destruction of the attacking torpedo). For all his fine performance in speed, range and compactness, Tripwire carries a very small warhead and selected developers arrangement greatly limits the maneuverability of a torpedo.

It is necessary to stress once again, not only from the beginning of domestic developments for antitorpedo customer was firmly put the issue of ensuring a very high probability of hitting the attacking torpedoes, but also that all development efforts (SSPE "Region") focused on this, and in the end result, these requirements have been met.

The high complexity of the solution of the problem is most clearly manifested in the development of the active complex PTZ SeaSpider (Germany), where the developer is already in the final stages of development, in the course of the test in real conditions and real goals (Torpedo) was faced with the need to make very significant changes in the structure and complex, and most anti-torpedo (including obviously limits the effectiveness of the originally planned to level):
• rejection of the launcher "type missile" in favor of "firing a board" with an inclined pneumatic launcher is significantly limited the effective range (Def) defeat torpedoes;
• small (insufficient) warhead mass forced developers to go for unique Western products solution - the use of detonating propellant engine.

However, according to available information in the media, the German developers have not managed to finalize SeaSpider and bring reliable solutions to PTZ task to an acceptable level.

Applications Consortium Eurotorp of solving the problem of an active PTA antitorpedoy MU90HK currently appear rather advertising, as objective information on an actual test there. However, it should be noted that the weight and size parameters and table of TTX MU90HK close to MTT complex product "Paket-E/NK", and during the relevant R & D antitorpeda MU90HK can obtain their high antitorpedo potential.

The development of an active anti-torpedo protection of "SSPE" Region "continues, including towards the creation of small-sized products (providing them with high efficiency) and a number of other areas.

Thus, today antitorpedo complex "Paket-E/NK" has the highest, compared with competitors, providing reliable torpedo potential defeat the attacking torpedoes.


http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1556639.html

US Was Unaware of Russian Underwater Nuclear Delivery System

Rose Gottemoeller said that the United States did not know about Russia’s nuclear undersea delivery system when the two countries negotiated the New START Treaty.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States did not know about Russia’s nuclear undersea delivery system when the two countries negotiated the New START Treaty, US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller said in a hearing.

"The answer to that question is unequivocal ‘no’," Gottemoeller stated on Tuesday when asked whether the United States was aware of the existence of this system when it was in negotiations with the New START Treaty.

Gottemoeller offered to discuss the Russian nuclear system in more details in a closed session.

A presentation slide with information on the Status-6 nuclear system was accidentally broadcast on Russian TV as part of a story covering Vladimir Putin's meeting with defense officials in Sochi. Status-6 is a torpedo, equipped with a nuclear warhead, which will be capable of causing assured unacceptable damage to an enemy by contaminating vast coastal areas.

“We are concerned about it as a threat to the United States, but if it turns into a system that is widely put into operational deployment,” Gottemoeller stated Tuesday. “I think it is a troubling system.”

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20151202/1031081529/us-unaware-russian-delivery-system.html#ixzz3t9y3vax7

Sth interesting. 60x 3K10 Granat cruise missiles of Northern fleet will be disposed

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1772748.html

Shipbuilding Company "RosPromResurs" in a press release dated April 21, 2016 reported that "has produced the first unit Enclosure naval artillery installation A190-01 of plastic composite materials.



http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1863666.html

Russian Navy to receive advanced Futlyar torpedoes

The new torpedoes will equip the Project 955A Borey-A (NATO reporting name: Dolgorukiy-class), Project 885 Yasen-class (Severodvinsk-class) and Project 885M Yasen-M in the first place

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. The Russian Navy is expected to adopt for service the advanced Futlyar deep-water torpedo that is undergoing its state trials now, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday.

According to the source, the Futlyar is an upgraded variant of the Fizik homing torpedo that has entered service recently.

"The new variant of the torpedo is undergoing state trials at Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, which are due for completion later in the year. If the torpedo passes the tests, it will enter service and its full-scale production should begin in 2017," the source said.

According to the source, the sophisticated torpedo will be of heat-seeking design like the baseline model but it will have the ability to be controlled from the submarine.

"The Futlyar will also be supplied with an improved homing system with an extended underwater target lock-on range. It will retain the baseline model’s range, speed and maximum launch depth - 50 km, over 50 knots and 400 m respectively," the source said.

The source said that the Futlyar would equip the Project 955A Borey-A (NATO reporting name: Dolgorukiy-class), Project 885 Yasen-class (Severodvinsk-class) and Project 885M Yasen-M in the first place. With the beginning of the Futlyar’s serial production, the output of the Fizik torpedo will be discontinued.

The Futlyar has been developed by the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Marine Engineering and the Dagdizel Enterprise will handle its production.

An official confirmation of the above information is unavailable to TASS at the moment.

In April last year, another source in the defense industry told TASS about the service entry and the launch of the production of the Fizik torpedo designed to replace the obsolete USET-80 developed in the 1980s.


More:
http://tass.ru/en/defense/883900

All new Russian Navy ships and submarines will be equipped with the Fizik-1 universal deep water homing torpedo which has a target range 2.5 times greater than the USET-80, currently in service, a military source told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

http://sputniknews.com/military/20160629/1042168265/torpedo-ships-submarines.html

so this is the new standard torpedo of Russian Navy?

http://concern-agat.ru/en/production/missile-systems-land-and-sea-based-missile-systems/3r-14uksk-kh-ship-general-purpose-firing-system



Just found that their are 2 types of uksk lunchers. One with 8 missiles and one with just 4 missiles wich is smaller.

GarryB wrote:Actually looking at that site...

this page:

http://concern-agat.ru/en/production/missile-systems-land-and-sea-based-missile-systems/club-u-modular-missile-system

Shows Club... which is the family of missiles in the UKSK launcher so this page shows it refitted onto an existing type... in this case a Udaloy class with mockups of inclined launchers and new under deck systems and systems mounted at the mid section... this suggests such inclined mounts could be used on the Slava and Sovremmeny class as well as Udaloy.

the inclined launcher seems to have 6 missiles ready to launch so fitting that to a Slava class means instead of 16 heavy missiles in 8 sets of twin launchers it should be able to carry 8 sets of 6 missiles, so 48 missiles...

So that is the Club land attack (ie Kalibr) plus the Club subsonic anti ship missile and the Club subsonic anti ship missile with the rocket propelled mach 3 terminal stage anti ship missile...

Well if they decide to do that, it would give them a realy big power up, I mean just puting the inclined lunchers. Their Moskit have a small range for a destroyer. They could assist Slava's and Kirovs with the same missiles.

Hope they will do that, They just need to change the external lunchers, wires and computers. Its not a big job to do that, they could do it easily.

GarryB wrote:I have seen models where if you look under the deck a UKSK launcher is two huge tubes with 4 inner tubes, so one bin launcher has two big huge tubes that contain two lots of 4 tubes equalling 8 small tubes in total for the missiles for naval vessels.

I suspect the single large tube model with just 4 small tubes is for the shipping container version and might have a land based model like Iskander eventually when the INF treaty is torn up... Smile

For use on ships its great depth because of the length of the missiles the system carries means the launcher needs to be centrally placed... so I doubt they would fit only 4 tubes on ships or subs... might as well have all 8 tubes...

Thanks for the link to that site though... Smile

Or put some missiles on Navy's tankers