2013 Naval Show - St. Petersburg

Nice Graphic presentation of Klub Missile at IMDS 2013 , Its interesting to see how the supersonic missile just drops from subsonic cover and how the torpedo falls from missile ....very nice concept .......Klub I feel has a lot of ingenuity and few firsts to its credits.

All the missiles are based on the Granat... known in the west as SS-N-21 Sampson, which was a 2,500km range cruise missile with a nuclear warhead only.

They have taken that design and pretty much expanded the family to include something that could have replaced Moskit (ie supersonic anti ship), Styx (subsonic anti ship) and SS-N-15 ( ballistic rocket to deliver torpedo to area of detected enemy submarine) or SS-N-14 which also delivered torpedos to submerged targets or surface targets with a subsonic winged missile.

The UKSK unified launcher means one ship with one UKSK launcher can be a Sovremmeny (ie 8 Moskits), or a Udaloy (ie 8 SS-N-14), but they took it a step further and added Onyx/Yakhont/Brahmos capability for supersonic anti ship and land attack capability but they also have Kalibr which is a modern equivalent of Granat and is a 2,500km range missile with new guidance to allow conventional and nuclear warheads to be used.

For all we know the granat subsonic cruise missile might have had the same improvements made to it that the Kh-101 and Kh-102 have had which means they might actually be the 5,000km range cruise missiles they are talking about in some articles on new Russian ships.

Of course it is also possible they might be unifying the Kh-101/102 design at sea and in the air.

Note the UKSK launcher can be fitted to ships and Subs and the two different ballistic anti sub missiles that deliver torpedoes are for the two different types of launcher (Sub and Ship).

Very clever system and as the ships get larger the armament combinations become more flexible... a Corvette might have some anti ship missiles and some anti sub missiles, while much larger vessels might carry a few long range cruise missiles on a longer voyage...

From Viktors link... Grad-M:



As the name suggests... Grad-M an artillery MRLS.



In this shot you can see the hatches under the launch tubes... with the launch tubes vertical the hatches can open... the question is... does a fully loaded pallet of rockets in their tubes get raised up onto the launcher so they can be turned to aim at the target and be fired, or do the rockets get raised up into the tubes of the launcher to reload?

Equally if it uses pallets can it carry the same range of types as the land based equivalent (ie 122mm, 220mm, and 300mm... Grad, Uragan, Smerch), or is it just 122mm?

Redoubt is to S-400 what Rif-M is to S-300...

More importantly see the model of the UKSK:



Note 8 tubes of which the far away four are open with the missiles sticking up... from the left the pointed nose of the anti sub rocket propelled torpedo for surface launch 91RTE2 missile, the next missile with its nose mounted ramjet inlet is Onyx/Yakhont/Brahmos, with the third missile clearly the subsonic/supersonic 3M-54E Club missile, and last but not least the Kalibr subsonic long range missile with land attack or anti ship capabilities.