Project 22350: Admiral Sergei Gorshkov

Confirmation that the Pr. 22350 is not 4500T.

From the shipyard (Severnaya) press release:

http://nortwolf-sam.livejournal.com/1917901.html

Основные характеристики проекта 22350:
· Водоизмещение - 5000 тонн
· Длина –135 м
· Ширина – 16 м
· Скорость – до 29 узлов
· Дальность плавания - 4500 миль
· Автономность – 30 суток
· Экипаж – 180-210 человек

Translation:

Main specifications of project 22350
Displacement: 5000 T
Length: 135 m
Width : 16 m
Speed : up to 29 knots
Range : 4500 nautical miles
Autonomy ; 30 days
Crew : 180 - 210 people

Considering that it took more than half a decade to launch the first Yasen-M and the improved borei hasn't been completed yet, can we expect extremely long buildtimes for the larger Gorshkov too? After all, so much more novel stuff will need to be tested. Will the super gorshkov benefit from the experience of lessening of the build time of the first Gorshkov or will it have to go through the blunders of being a completely new design just as the improved subs?

PapaDragon wrote:

KomissarBojanchev wrote:Considering that it took more than half a decade to launch the first Yasen-M and the improved borei hasn't been completed yet, can we expect extremely long buildtimes for the larger Gorshkov too? After all, so much more novel stuff will need to be tested. Will the super gorshkov benefit from the experience of lessening of the build time of the first Gorshkov or will it have to go through the blunders of being a completely new design just as the improved subs?

I don't think so. Ship will be larger but they will not be adding any new weapons, just more of the already existing ones.

The Yasen-M and 955As also did not have new systems, yet they have been in construction for almost a decade.

PapaDragon wrote:

KomissarBojanchev wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:....

I don't think so. Ship will be larger but they will not be adding any new weapons, just more of the already existing ones.

The Yasen-M and 955As also did not have  new systems, yet they have been in construction for almost a decade.

Excuse me?

955A is completely upgraded ship and Yasen-M is so redesigned that it might as well be called new class.

Super Gorshkov will be elongated in order to accommodate more vertical launchers and that is pretty much it.

What completely new upgrades? Doesn't the 955A just have more Bulavas, and the Yasen-M more UKSKs?

Anyway if you're right, thats good news.

Confirmation that the Pr. 22350 is not 4500T.

Not really a surprise, still tiny relative to most ships being built for other navies.

Russian Navy Next Generation Frigates to be Based on Project 22350 Gorshkov-class

The next generation frigates with increased displacement and reinforced armament suite will be based on the Project 22350 frigates, the President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov told TASS. Russia`s Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said previously that the Project 22350 frigates would form the Russian Navy`s backbone.


"She [the frigate] will be evolving in a drastic manner. The ship will be bigger that the Project 22350 [frigates]. She will feature a more powerful armament suite and an increased effectiveness," Rakhmanov said commenting the statement by the Minister.

"The armament suite will be reinforced certainly. Regarding the displacement, we will have to change her dimensions to incorporate a heavier armament suite and the frigate may become bigger," the head of the USC added. However, the new ship would remain a frigate not transforming into a destroyer, he pointed out.

The research and development works on the upgrade of the Project 22350 are underway, according to Rakhmanov.

The third Project 22350 frigate, 'Admiral Golovko', is planned to be launched in 2017. "The 'Admiral Golovko' ship will be launched this year to all appearance. The deliveries of its main instruments and components are supposed to be started since mid-2017. Therefore, we are planning to catch up the shifted schedules," the President of the Corporation said.

He reminded that the 'Admiral Gorshkov' ship had started the final stage of the state trials. Rakhmanov expressed the hope that they would finish in Summer and the St Andrew`s flag-raising ceremony would take place.

"She will become the newest naval combatant, only once her main complexes and systems are in good working order meeting the original terms of reference," he pointed out. The Navy is planning to get the second Project 22350 frigate, 'Admiral Kasatonov', in 2018.

Previously, Russia`s Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin said that the new state armament program through 2025 would focus on the building of the corvettes and frigates armed with guided weapons.

Source: http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2017/june-2017-navy-naval-forces-defense-industry-technology-maritime-security-global-news/5269-russian-navy-next-generation-frigates-to-be-based-on-project-22350-gorshkov-class.html

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Actually, a new destroyer class could be based on the Gorshkovs, which would be both great and effective.

"Gorshkov", Baltysk, June 14th





"Admiral Kasatonov"

Now they're saying 22350M will be 8,000 ton.

Thats a whole heap more ship than Gorshkov, so what do we think they might manage with that extra displacement?

Enough for a doubling of the current missile load? 64* Redut + 32* UKSK, upgrade from Palma to Pantsir-M, 2* helos.
Stick it all in a bow stretch or a 2nd 32* cell Redut section ahead of the hangar?

Maybe just a bump to 48* Redut + 24* UKSK + Pantsir-M? Would presumably allow better speed/range/habitability.

hoom wrote:Now they're saying 22350M will be 8,000 ton.

Thats a whole heap more ship than Gorshkov, so what do we think they might manage with that extra displacement?

Enough for a doubling of the current missile load? 64* Redut + 32* UKSK, upgrade from Palma to Pantsir-M, 2* helos.
Stick it all in a bow stretch or a 2nd 32* cell Redut section ahead of the hangar?

Maybe just a bump to 48* Redut + 24* UKSK + Pantsir-M? Would presumably allow better speed/range/habitability.

http://mil.today/2017/Weapons59/

Here another link

No production delays there.

Yet.
Pretty sure Gorshkov was in the water pretty quickly.
But I think (hope) they have learned that lesson.

A vid of Gorshkov I think on the way out to another round of tests

And heaps of pics http://bastion-karpenko.ru/22350-gorshkov-170701/

Now that it is becoming clear that project 22350M will be the size of a project 1155, it could be that the Leader destroyer
will just be an anti-air/anti-missile warfare optimized variant of the 22350M, trading, for example, an helicopter (out of
supposedly two) and one or two UKSK (out of 3 or 4), for S-400 or S-500 VLS (besides those it would already have) and their guidance radars.
Kind of the capability of a project 1164...

Improved Variant of Russian Project 22350 Frigates Could Operate as Destroyers



Scale model of an improved Project 22350 frigate on display during IMDS 2017. Note the increased number of VLS cells, just in front of the bridge and in front of the helicopter hangar. It also features the new generation integrated mast of the same family as the one fitted aboard the new Project 20385 corvette. Picture by Curious via Forums.airbase.ru.

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That model is not a scaled up Pr.22350
It is at least twice as big as a Pr.22350. More like a cruiser.

PapaDragon wrote:

TheArmenian wrote:/\  /\

That model is not a scaled up Pr.22350
It is at least twice as big as a Pr.22350. More like a cruiser.

Well they did say that new ones will have twice the weight of old ones

First they said it the super-G will be 1500T more.
More recently, they said that super-G will be an 8000T ship.

That model is more the size of a 12000T Slava class cruiser, perhaps even bigger.

You cant just see the model and figure out the tonnage , It depends on what scale the model is built.

Indeed they mentioned at IMDS at SG will be 8000 Tons and that Navy needs 10 ships of SG types

http://flotprom.ru/2017/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F23/

It's not just an increase of the Gorshkov. It's an all new ship. Just the VLS at mid-ship are higher than the ones in front so we can assume it's S-300FM/400F class family missile, so new radar for guiding them.

Hope that the mast is better than the one for corvette size ship. It was marketed with 200km range against fighter IIRC, most western surveillance radars have 400+km range, even older soviet radars do better.

http://concern-agat.ru/en/production/radiolocation-radio-electronic-systems-and-complexes/radar-with-rotating-l-band-active-phased-array

I've posted this link in the Lider thread some times ago and said it would be a good capability for liders. Looks like they chosed to fit this on the super gorshkov. It seems to have the same dimensions and it's a rotating radar as said in the article and as seen on the picture.

It would be a very good ship as it has the stealth design of the gorshkov, the power of slava (and more) and state of art electronics. Moreover they look like they are going to fit it with just already used and tested systems and weapons so they will no need much time to test them and to correct bugs and won't have lot of issues like we have seen with Gorshkov first ship or Redut problems or Shtill problems as they are already solved.

Austin wrote:You cant just see the model and figure out the tonnage , It depends on what scale the model is built.

You can if you have a reference item.

An example of a reference item in this case is the main gun. It is the same gun found on the Gorshkov, yet it looks so tiny on this model.
The more I look at this model the more I am inclined to think that this ship is 10,000 to 15,000 Ton class.