Project 20380(5): Steregushchy Corvette #2

Would be good if they could create a magazine loader that loads all the tubes in one launcher at a time... fill the cassette with the missiles you want to load on shore or on another support ship at sea and then crane it over and lower it over the launcher... they could design attachment points on the loader and the launcher so they align and lock together while the tubes are loaded, with space for the hatches to open out of the way and the missile tubes are lowered down into place and then the empty magazine can be lifted away and returned to shore or support ship to be reloaded and reused for the next launcher.

Each pier or support ship could have multiple crane operating at once.

Vertical launchers are going to be pretty widely used so being able to reload them quickly and safely is worth a bit of extra complication and design work...

The original TOR missiles came in a block of four missiles ( a single row of four missiles) that was lowered into the turret in one piece... two of them loaded the vehicle ready for use.

These pod things were used when the TOR vehicle carried 8 missiles ready to fire but the new missiles came in individual tubes with 8 tubes of the new missiles fitting in the space the four tube block fitted on the vehicle so with the new missiles you could carry 16 ready to launch missiles. (which were faster and more accurate and longer ranged...)

The new deck mounted TOR missiles might just be a block of ready to fire missiles... take the old empty one out and put the full new one into place type thing.

The Uran is a good missile, not everything needs to be armed with hundreds of vertical missile tubes... some patrol craft barely ever fire a shot in anger... let alone have to sink the entire HATO navy single handedly.

I suspect for a small patrol ship like this most of the time those UKSK launch tubes will have Otvet anti sub weapons rather than calibrs or zircons.

Interestingly the UKSK can also carry long range SAMs if required as well as short range self defence SAMs too... but not very efficiently.

There is one crucial point.
20380 goes docking for a mid life repair means that the system runs perfectly well and as planned.
Yes, ship is a long lasting asset, yet needs regular maintenance.
And ... boom ... they just do.
Don't write it off, like some world superpower with super ships guess the names.

Keep in mind where it operates.
A Kortik on it's tail is still one of the most potent systems in the whole of Baltics.
Uran is second to none.
And that all goes with a 2kt corvette ...

Some people pissing their pants because it takes too long to make some ships in Russia without knowing what is being built and where all the parts and systems come from.

From using German diesel engines to Chinese to now making their own, nothing has changed and everything is easy they should be making 50 boats a week obviously because everything is fully funded there are not other demands on money and resources and international trade is running fine.

Obviously they need thousands of these little boats because selling oil and gas internationally means they don't need their own shipping fleet of tankers for oil and gas... they need pissy little ships like this to guard ports... because experts on the internet say so.

Perhaps if you had managed a real project in your life you might understand but it is clear you have neither the experience nor the interest to even just try to understand.

But why compare with the FREMMs, why not chocolate fish... cadburies makes millions every year... so why can't Russia make more corvettes...