Project 1164 Atlant: Slava Class cruiser

hoom wrote:What is the orangey stuff on the missile tubes?

Yandex translate wrote:The main problematic issues VTG "Marshal Ustinov" are setting up the system of control of main engines, repairs of refrigeration equipment and commissioning works on control system power system of the ship.
The delay in completion of set tasks linked to a number of factors.
"Asterisk", specializing in the repair and modernization of submarines, for the first time faced with such a volume of new work on surface ships of cruiser class.
Poorly prepared for this appeared and contractor organizations. Today business partners has the main task to eliminate delays in the repair of the cruiser, about what exactly was said in the text of the Protocol of the meeting.
The limiting factors were the late delivery of the documentation management system main engines from design organizations, its incompleteness, long-term commissioning work and the identification of emerging faults, the novelty of this automation system.
Also for the first time aginskoj the shipyard had to do repairs of refrigeration equipment.
Besides the fact that they have a thirty-year period of operation, the manufacturer sank into oblivion.
Analogues in Russia such machines as well as specialists in their maintenance and repair.
The company "VNIIKHOLODMASH" ( Moscow), who undertook their restoration, showed their complete incapacity and incompetence in the repair and adjustment of equipment.
The delay in final commissioning of the machines in operation does not give in full and with appropriate quality to carry out mooring trials of such major systems such as weapons systems, communications, radio AIDS.
The lack of experience and experts from the co-executor of work hinders this process.
However, until the end of the month work on refrigeration vehicles must be completed.
A similar situation exists for control system of gas turbogenerators due to low qualification of specialists of the counterparty involved in the repair and commissioning of the system.

Big_Gazza wrote:Some new photos of the Ukrayina from Southfront:





This is why the Ukrops cannot have nice things...  

Full article on Southfront here.

AlfaT8 wrote:

Big_Gazza wrote:Some new photos of the Ukrayina from Southfront:
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This is why the Ukrops cannot have nice things...  

Full article on Southfront here.

And i thought the Russian navy was in bad shape, this thing looks downright haunted, just in time for Halloween.

zg18 wrote:Northern fleet`s "Marshal Ustinov", first modernized of the class, is starting 30-day sea trials in the White Sea.

zg18 wrote:

zg18 wrote:Northern fleet`s "Marshal Ustinov", first modernized of the class, is starting 30-day sea trials in the White Sea.

Isos wrote:What was upgraded ? Is it a new radar on it ?

What was upgraded ? Is it a new radar on it ?

hoom wrote:
Big question if they upgraded the S-300/how much &/or if they put Calibr launchers in the Granit tubes. Apparently not though which I think is a huge lost opportunity could have been a 48* Calibr/Onyx salvo.

GarryB wrote:Well, if they are replacing the Granit launchers in Oscar class SSGNs with three tubes of Onyx or Kalibr, then replacing the Vulkan launchers with Onyx/Kalibr tubes should not have been impossible... though Vulkan is angled heavily... much more so than Granit.