Alternatively, the torpedo tubes can deploy 24 mines.
The submarine is equipped with six 533mm forward torpedo tubes situated in the nose of the submarine and carries 18 torpedoes with six in the torpedo tubes and 12 stored on the racks. The range is 220km with 450kg high-explosive warhead. The vessels can be fitted with the Novator Club-S (SS-N-27) cruise missile system, which fires the 3M-54E1 anti-ship missile. Igla (Nato designation SA-N-10 Gimlet) is also infrared-guided but heavier with a maximum range of 5km and speed of Mach 1.65. Strela-3 (Nato Designation SA-N-8 Gremlin) has a cooled infrared seeker and 2kg warhead. The missiles are manufactured by the Fakel Design Bureau, Kaliningrad. The submarine has a launcher for eight Strela-3 or Igla surface-to-air missiles. The system’s high-speed computer can process information from the surveillance equipment and display it on the screen, determine submerged and surface target data and calculate firing parameters, provide automatic fire control, and provide information and recommendations on manoeuvres and deployment of weapons. The submarine is equipped with a multi-purpose combat and command system, which provides information for effective submarine control and torpedo firing. The power of the diesel generators was increased and the main propulsion shaft speed was reduced to provide a substantial reduction in the acoustic signature of the submarine. The design is a development of the 877EKM Kilo-class with the extended hull. The foreplanes are positioned on the upper hull in front of the fin or sail. No doubt Ukraine’s leaders will wish they had subs of their own."The Russian Kilo-class submarine first entered service in the early 1980s." But they are powerless to do anything about Russia’s submarines. The Ukrainians with their new Neptune anti-ship missiles-and TB-2 drones to cue them-aren’t totally powerless to resist Russia’s surface ships. In wartime, the Kilos might hunt down Ukraine’s handful of surface warships in order to clear a path for an amphibious assault, then park off the coast, from where they can lob cruise missiles at targets deep inland. Today the Russian Black Sea Fleet with its six improved Kilo-class submarines has, after Turkey, the second-most-powerful sub flotilla in the region. Zaporizhzhia’s capture accelerated the inevitable dissolution of Kiev’s undersea capability. “In five years we will lack those who want and are able to serve in a submarine force wherever it’d be needed,” a Ukrainian admiral admitted. More to the point, by 2012 the Ukrainian navy had been without a functional submarine for so many years that it no longer could sustain a roster of qualified, experienced submariners. Consider that, during the 1982 Falklands War, the Royal Navy deployed 12 surface ships, two dozen helicopters and six of its own subs in a vain effort to hunt down the Argentinian sub San Luis.īut Zaporizhzhia was old and probably unsafe. Even a couple of submarines greatly can complicate an enemy fleet’s operations. It’s not clear Kiev would have wanted her back. While Moscow eventually returned many Ukrainian warships it seized in Crimea, it kept-and later scrapped-the ancient Zaporizhzhia. As half her crew defected, her skipper handed the boat over to the Russians. But when Russian forces seized Crimea in February 2014, Zaporizhzhia was idling pier-side.
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