Russian sub killing helicopters armed with one ton nuclear weapon.
Posted on 05/14/2015 4:53:18 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
The Russian Navy is seeking to re-acquire at least “100 nuclear-capable Mi-14 anti-submarine helicopters for deployment within the Black and Northern Sea Fleets over the next two – five years”, according to sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Mil Mi-14 is a shore-based amphibious helicopter armed with (optionally) a torpedo, twelve 64kg or eight 120kg depth bombs. This submarine killer also has a very special ammo in its arsenal: a 1 kiloton nuclear antisubmarine bomb weighting 1,600kg, capable of scuttling any underwater target within a radius of 800 meters.
The helicopter not only has a unique capability of landing on water, but was an all-weather long-range helicopter capable of operating as far as 300km offshore.
The helicopter could stay airborne for 5.5 hours and cover a total distance of 1,100km.
In the 1990s, White House negotiators insisted on the helicopters decommissioning, along with strategic bombers and ballistic missiles.
The Russian Ministry of Defense is now seeking to re-acquire these weapons in an effort to maintain a last ditch defense capability to counter enemy submarines. Particularly US submarines.
Experts in Moscow believe, the re-commissioning of the Mi-14 helicopters could be accomplished as quickly as twenty four months, depending upon funding, over three stages.
Stage one - implies restoration of 10 decommissioned Mi-14s.
Step two – then they will undergo deep modernization.
Step three - will be essentially the return to production line, which might reportedly take up to five years. Although experts I talk to say its closer to 2-3 years.
Russian sub killing helicopters armed with one ton nuclear weapon.
Quick! Lets give them more of our uranium!
Is that Shamu of the Polish Air Force?
“a 1 kiloton nuclear antisubmarine bomb weighting 1,600kg”
That seems to be pretty massive for such a low yield. Compare to Davy Crockett or W51.
Unless it is housed in a maneuvering vehicle- even then that’s heavy.
Torpedo has entered the water.
High speed screws.
Torpedo has acquired.
I wouldn’t want to be in the air in a helicopter anywhere NEAR a 1 KT going off. The Enola Gay dropped their weapon and ran like hell in a shallow dive to get away from it and still got roughed up by the shock wave. And that was in a B-29, from bombing altitude.
I guess this is the naval equivalent of a nuclear hand grenade.
As far as I know Poland had these too.
With their lack of concern about our buffoon in chief, Zer0, sitting in the Oval Office, these are probably operational already.
NATO boomers don’t run terribly deep, so yeah, a 1.5KT yield nuke would produce an impressive shock wave and a lot of superheated steam that would really like to make it to the surface.
Let’s say that helo could make 220 KIAS full military, and maybe 30 seconds from drop to detonation, that’s maybe 2 miles separation from ground zero.
Rough ride to say the least.
If you are interested, Google operation Wigwam. It was a deep water (2000’) 30 KT test.
Amazing how the enviro-nuts go silent when something like this is being used in any country outside the USA.
“Amazing how the enviro-nuts go silent when something like this is being used in any country outside the USA.”
They don’t get funding to complain about other countries.
Strategic implications aside, they need these to support the new/restored Arctic Operations.
I am not an expert but there is no compelling reason for a 1 kiloton bomb to weigh that much unless there’s other stuff involved.
My guess is there’s other stuff involved.
The enemy “needs” these?
“Amazing how the enviro-nuts go silent when something like this is being used in any country outside the USA.”
Nuke the whales!
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