Underwater Drones of the Russian Navy

The Navy of Russia will consider the possibility of building nuclear submarines-robots with dramatically reduced through automation of ship systems number of crew. About it "Lenta.ru" has informed a source in the defense industry.

"It is not necessary to build the boat completely revolutionary, as was the case for the 705-km project, which used innovative reactor with liquid metal coolant, and highly automated equipment, and a number of other innovations, including the case of titanium alloys, and all been combined in a very compact volume, — said the source. — A more rational path is to create a submarine-robot normal for this class of displacement on the basis of proven technical solutions with increased automation. The crew of this submarine may be reduced to 50-55, and later to 30-40 persons".

As reported RIA Novosti, the construction of a head nuclear submarine of the new generation planned to start in 2017-2018. Experts believe that the future submarines will be able to replace the fleet of submarines of project 949А, built in 1980-1990-ies, and the new "underwater fighter" in the 2020s, will replace the multi-purpose submarines of project 971, 945 and 671РТМ.

A wide range of tasks for the development of the World ocean contributes to the growing interest in the creation of a specialized marine equipment. One of the most intensively developing trends in this area the creation of robotic systems and systems based on unmanned underwater vehicles for the solution search, inspection, research and many other tasks. In a relatively short period from the beginning of the design Bureau of advanced robotic systems Autonomous underwater vehicles, we performed a large amount of work in various areas. Created complex mobile Autonomous underwater vehicle "Juno", designed to perform survey and search missions. The main feature of this complex is its mobility, allowing it to carry out its operational application in the required area. Simultaneously with the complex AUV "Juno", a complex of Autonomous underwater vehicle "Kalvesin-2R-PM" with increased autonomy and the depth of immersion. This complex in addition to performing surveillance and search functions solves the problem of the research study of the World ocean in the deep sea. A prototype AUV "Harpsichord-2R-PM" at the present time is manufactured and goes through the stage of preliminary tests.

In the active phase of creation is more complex robotic system, designed to protect a stretch of sea areas and of areas of the continental shelf. Another perspective for the Bureau of direction is the integration of remotely operated underwater vehicles.

MOSCOW, December 6. /TASS/. Specialists of Russia’s Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering have developed a conceptual design of a seaborne robotized system called Surrogat for holding naval exercises, the design bureau’s press office told TASS on Tuesday.

Currently negotiations are under way with the Navy on this project, the press office said.

Surrogat is equipped with a lithium-ion battery. This submarine imitator provides for up to 15-16 hours of naval exercises, reproducing an enemy submarine’s maneuvering, including at high speed, over this time.

The robot’s relatively large size (about 17 meters long) and the ability to carry towed sonar arrays for various applications will help realistically reproduce an enemy submarine’s physical fields - acoustic and electromagnetic, the Rubin design bureau said.

The imitator’s modular design allows changing its functionality: Surrogat will be able to imitate both a conventional and a nuclear-powered submarine, and also to carry out terrain mapping and reconnaissance.

"Today, combat submarines have to be involved for exercises or tests and this practice distracts them from carrying out their basic missions. The use of an unmanned imitator will help avoid this and cut the cost of drills. Besides, a submarine without a crew reduces risks while keeping simulated scenarios realistic," Rubin CEO Igor Vilnit told TASS.

"This apparatus will be distinguished by its simplicity in operation and the low cost of its maintenance and upgrade. Now we’re holding consultations with Navy representatives to make the imitator fully meet the Navy’s requirements," he said.

The Rubin design bureau also does not rule out that foreign customers may display interest in Surrogat.

The autonomous unmanned submarine Surrogat will have a displacement of about 40 tons, a cruising range of about 600 miles at a speed of 5 knots, a maximum speed of over 24 knots and the maximum immersion depth of 600 meters.

George1 wrote:"Izvestia": tests of a new generation of drones for the Navy began in the Crimea
http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/5199870

Hole wrote:And then we got this thing...

Russian "Cephalopod" will be the killer of submarines

Russia is working on an unmanned nuclear submarine designed to destroy enemy submarines. Armed with mini-torpedoes, underwater robots the size of a bus will guard strategic submarines with ballistic missiles, protect ports and other marine objects, operate in inland seas - for example, the Baltic Sea.

Scientists of the UNN presented a biomorphic unmanned vessel on the "Army-2018"

The delegation of the Nizhny Novgorod region presented at the International Military Technical Forum "Army-2018" biomorphic unmanned ship (BPS) "Tuna-1", the press service of the government of the region.

According to information, the project of the ship "Tuna" was developed by scientists of Nizhny Novgorod State University. NI Lobachevsky. BPS copies ordinary fish and during operation does not create any perturbations of the external environment, which practically excludes the possibility of its detection. "From all the existing probes and robots" Tuna "is distinguished, first of all, by a biomorphic design, an innovative magnetic motor, the possibility of group control and the presence of a command electromagnetic connection," said the vice-rector for scientific work of the UNN, August Lee.

The scientist added that in the future the university's specialists intend to create a scalable hull of the ship for greater depths. Also for "Tunca" it is planned to develop a new type of engines based on "smart" materials, such as piezoelectric materials and ferromagnetic liquids, which can transform the structure under external influence. "This will significantly reduce hydroacoustic noise and, presumably, increase the autonomy of the vessel," he explained.

According to the Acting. deputy governor Yevgeny Lyulin, the exposition of the Nizhny Novgorod region became one of the largest in the "Army-2018": in total about 200 developments of 45 enterprises of the region are presented at the forum. "The main task of the Nizhny Novgorod delegation is to search for potential partners for developers and enterprises, for example, biomorfic robots can provide active search in target underwater areas, which is important, for example, in the exploration of mineral deposits," Liulin said.

Google translate wrote:the device weighs less than 30 kg, is capable of speeding up to 1 knot and has a power reserve of 4 hours. The depth of his dive reaches 50 meters, and a stable connection with the "Nerpo" works at a distance of up to 80 meters.

Google Translate wrote:Diesel engines type D500 - four-stroke combined internal combustion engines of dimension CHN 26.5 / 31 with V-shaped arrangement of cylinders (12, 16 or 20) with gas turbine charging and cooling of charge air. Designed for ships, diesel locomotives and power plants, including nuclear ones. In the ship's performance, they are designed to work as the main power plant (DRA or DG) for operation through gear transmission to the propeller.

At the enterprise also have created diesel engines of new generation Д300 of the standard series ЧН26 / 28. They can be used for shipbuilding, locomotive building, in nuclear and small power engineering.

Depending on the number of cylinders, the new engines of the D500 and D300 lines cover the power range from 2650 to 7352 kW (3600 and 10 000 hp, respectively).

hoom wrote:https://flotprom.ru/2018/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F135/
Little anti-diver drone sub

Google translate wrote:the device weighs less than 30 kg, is capable of speeding up to 1 knot and has a power reserve of 4 hours. The depth of his dive reaches 50 meters, and a stable connection with the "Nerpo" works at a distance of up to 80 meters.

https://flotprom.ru/2018/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F133/
Kolomna presented new gen of Diesels 12, 16 & 20 cylinders, 3600-10000hp

Google Translate wrote:Diesel engines type D500 - four-stroke combined internal combustion engines of dimension CHN 26.5 / 31 with V-shaped arrangement of cylinders (12, 16 or 20) with gas turbine charging and cooling of charge air. Designed for ships, diesel locomotives and power plants, including nuclear ones. In the ship's performance, they are designed to work as the main power plant (DRA or DG) for operation through gear transmission to the propeller.

At the enterprise also have created diesel engines of new generation Д300 of the standard series ЧН26 / 28. They can be used for shipbuilding, locomotive building, in nuclear and small power engineering.

Depending on the number of cylinders, the new engines of the D500 and D300 lines cover the power range from 2650 to 7352 kW (3600 and 10 000 hp, respectively).

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Hole wrote:

chocolate coins!

But... that is an insane amount of chocolate coins! Russia cannot afford that!

No seriously, this is million ruble maybe?

Hole wrote:The UUV is called Nerpa.

Hole wrote:Where did you get that 1kn from?