Watch Russia's Only Operational Battlecruiser Launch A Massive "Shipwreck" Anti-Ship Missile

The Drive ^ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 | TYLER ROGOWAY

[sukhoi-30mki]

[KC_Lion]

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[DoughtyOne]

I always enjoy your military hardware posts sukhoi-30mki...

[BenLurkin]

A dangerous potential adversary , no doubt. But happily for the West, the heritage of the Russian Navy is lackluster at best.

[Mariner]

Back in the olden days we were taught to fear these ships.

High respect.

[doorgunner69]

That ship class has been stunning for a long time. Have to be hideously expensive to keep running, as often as they are in the yard.

[allendale]

Actually while these rockets are dangerous they are not stealthy and are outdated. A supercarrier has much more to fear from innovative technology such as stealthy flocks of “seagull” drones. Each less than a foot long, armed with C4 explosive, launched far from target and directed to target from a console far away. Sorry but in the era of modern technology big surface ships are obsolete and vulnerable death traps for their crews.

[SaveFerris]

[ 1,650 high explosive charge or a 500kt thermonuclear warhead. In the case of the former, a near miss is still a certain kill, although it’s very unlikely that the Russians still deploy these missiles loaded with nuclear warheads. ]

In the case of the latter.

[Paladin2]

Looks like the Rooskies need some high temp marine paint.

What ever happened to the supersonic torpedos?

[jdege]

It was the threat of exactly this sort of attack that lead the U.S.to develop the Aegis.

And IIRC, Aegis could defend against as much as 100 simultaneous missiles.

A few thousand drones is another matter.

[sparklite2]

Shkval

The torpedo is manufactured in Kyrgyzstan by a state-owned factory. In 2012 the Russian government asked for a 75% ownership of the factory in exchange for writing off massive Kyrgyz debt to Russia.[7]

[DesertRhino]

Big looking ship, beautiful lines and powerful. But an Iowa battleship is over twice the size.

[Paladin2]

Thanks. Not supersonic, but an interesting concept/technology.

[doorgunner69]

But an Iowa battleship is over twice the size.

Your point would be?

A Kirov would sink an Iowa class from a couple hundred miles away.

Just like tiny navy aircraft sunk Japanese carriers and battleships.

[Steely Tom]

Yeah, I'm sure Phalanx CIWS could never hit an incoming platform moving on a nearly constant radial with a frontal area that appears to be about the size of a semi, moving at less than Mach 2.

[doorgunner69]

The CIWS has plenty of issues of it's own.

Regardless, if you were able to hit a large artillery shell coming at you at the speed of many rifle projectiles and hit it; would you feel fine just standing there as the remaining pieces came at you at close to the original velocity?

People have a Popular Mechanix view of the effectiveness of modern defensive systems. They will never be anywhere near 80% or less effective.

Throw in the inevitable fog of war, the sailors that cannot steer out of the way of a huge cargo ship..........

[Davy Crocket]

The ship had very outdated instruments and the Captain was using a pointer pointing to a section of the map.. Yep they fired some missiles..

[Spktyr]

CIWS does well against sequential threats - but it is still vulnerable against saturation attacks and jamming. Sea-skimming missiles, big or small are also a complex problem for the CIWS.

Oh, and we took the CIWS off most of our naval vessels and replaced them with Sidewinder missiles in box launchers. CIWS can’t defend a ship if it’s not there.

[Spktyr]

At this point, it’s starting to not matter how high tech the launch platform is. You can put an Exocet or four on a cigarette boat containing nothing more high tech than a compass and kill warships with it.