Nuclear-powered Russian missile cruiser to dock at Goa

[Justin Joseph]

Nuclear-powered Russian missile cruiser to dock at Goa

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Russia’s heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser, Pyotr Velikiy, will dock at a port in Goa for six days from Friday during which the warship will also take part in a joint naval exercise with the Indian Navy.

The missile cruiser is visiting port Mormugao Aug 6-11, an official in the Russian embassy here said.

According to the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Defence (Navy), the cruiser will participate in joint exercises with Indian naval ships.

There will be air defence, gun firing exercises, manoeuvering and replenishment at sea.

The spokesperson, quoting Russian Navy General Headquarters, said the visit of the Russian cruiser “is another step in strengthening mutual understanding and cooperation between Russian and Indian navies”.

Pyotr Velikiy is one of the state-of-the-art and powerful attack ships in the Russian Navy.

It can hit big surface targets and has very effective air defence and anti-submarine capabilities.

The weaponry of the cruiser includes attack cruise missiles (range up to 550 km) air defence systems.

The cruiser has a powerful nuclear propulsion system and can sail at 32 knots (60 km/h). The service life of this system is 50 years.

The energy potential of the cruiser’s nuclear power plant enables it to provide energy for a city with population of 150,000-200,000 people, the spokesperson said.

Officers on board the cruiser will call on Indian navy officials in Goa also.

The personnel of the cruiser will go for sightseeing in the India port state and participate in volleyball matches and tug-of-war competitions with Indian naval officers and sailors.

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[navtrek]

 

[Break the Silence]

It seems Indian Navy is in mood of Purchasing something deadlier...

 

[su-47]

It seems Indian Navy is in mood of Purchasing something deadlier...

last time i checked, the Pyotr Velikiy is not for sale.

besides, we are doing quite well with indigenous manufacturing with regard to surface ships. we need to buy submarines from Russia, mainly the Nerpa class. but i believe Arihant is a major step forward in indegenisation of underwater vessels.

 

[Devianz]

I would love to see some nuclear cruisers in Indian colours.

 

[Break the Silence]

last time i checked, the Pyotr Velikiy is not for sale.

besides, we are doing quite well with indigenous manufacturing with regard to surface ships. we need to buy submarines from Russia, mainly the Nerpa class. but i believe Arihant is a major step forward in indegenisation of underwater vessels.

Yes, you are right, But who knows what is cooking, Although It was guessonly. but can you tell me what is the benifit of leasing subs rather to purchase it.?

 

[laxman]

Yes, you are right, But who knows what is cooking, Although It was guessonly. but can you tell me what is the benifit of leasing subs rather to purchase it.?

dis type of sub dsnt belong 2 sell catagory,,,as i know.

 

[Super Falcon]

well this cruiser from russia i think is very deadly and lethal hav all state of the art system of russian on board well and it is too heavy for me nearly to the class of aircraft carrier russian always like to build something big always

 

[gowthamraj]

That a great ship. Think it have land attacking cruise missiles with upto 550km range. If India get this it would game changer in our inventory

 

[Markus]

Indigenous Indian warships are doing good job, no need to go for such foreign ships.

 

[!!craft!!]

The Russian heavy missile cruise ship, Project 1144.2 Kirov Class was built by the Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg. The Kirov Class provides the capability to engage large surface ships and to defend the fleet against air and submarine attack. Four cruisers were built but only Admiral Nakhimov (commissioned in 1988) and Pyotr Velikhiy (commissioned in 1995) remain active.

Missiles


The ship is armed with the Granit (Nato designation SS-N-19 Shipwreck) long-range anti-ship missile system. 20 Granit missiles are installed under the upper deck, mounted at a 60° elevation. The version of Granit on the Kirov is not controlled after launch. In ripple-fire mode, the lead missile follows a high flight trajectory, while the other missiles follow a low-level flight path. If the lead missile is intercepted then one of the other missiles automatically takes on the lead role.

An S-300F air defence missile complex is installed on the ship, with 12 launchers and 96 vertical-launch air defence missiles. The Osa-MA air defence missile system is supplied by the Znamya Truda Plant based at Saratov. The ship has two double launchers and 40 missiles. The system can operate autonomously or it can be integrated into the ship's combat systems and download target data from the ship's sensors. Osa-MA has a range of 1.2 to 10km at an altitude between 25m and 5,000m.

"The Kirov Class provides the capability to engage large surface ships and to defend the fleet."
The ship is equipped with a Kashstan air-defence missile / gun system, supplied by the Instrument Design Bureau of Tula. The system provides defence against a range of precision weapons including anti-ship and anti-radar missiles and air bombs, aircraft, and small naval ships. Two command modules and six combat modules are installed on the ship. The command module provides autonomous operation by detecting the threats, distributing the threat data and designating the targets to the combat modules. The combat module automatically tracks the target with radar and television, calculates firing data and engages the target with missiles and guns.

The missile range is 8km and the gun range is 1.5km for altitudes up to 4,000m. The system can engage up to six targets simultaneously, one for each combat module. The guns can fire at a rate of 1,000 rounds a minute.

Guns

The Kirov is fitted with a 130mm AK-130 multipurpose twin-barrel gun supplied by the Ametist Design Bureau, Izumrud JSC and the Tula Engineering Plant. The main components of the artillery system are a computer-based control system with a multi-band radar, television and optical target sighting, and a gun mount with a turret-mounted Kondensor optical sighting unit.

The gun can be operated under fully automatic remote control interfaced to the radar control system, under autonomous control from the sighting unit or can be laid manually. Range is over 22km and maximum rate of fire is 35 rounds/min. The ship also has a 30mm AK-630 artillery system.

Anti-submarine warfare

The ship has ten torpedo tubes for 20 Vodopad-NK anti-submarine missiles or torpedoes. The ship has two anti-submarine and anti-torpedo rocket systems, the Udav-1 with 40 anti-submarine rockets and the RBU-1000. The ship has two RBU-1000 six-tube launchers, with 102 rockets.

"Kirov is fitted with a 130mm AK-130 multipurpose twin-barrel gun."
Helicopters

The ship accommodates three Kamov Ka-27PL or Ka-25RT helicopters. The Kamov-27 (Nato codename Helix) is equipped for anti-submarine warfare with surface search radar, sonobuoys, dipping sonar, and magnetic anomaly detectors. The Ka-27 can be armed with torpedoes, bombs, mines and rockets. The Ka-25RT (Hormone) helicopter is the predecessor of the Ka-27.

Propulsion

The ship's propulsion system is based on a combination of nuclear power and steam turbine, with four nuclear reactors and two auxiliary boilers. The four steam turbines deliver 28,000hp. Two shafts drive two five-bladed, fixed-pitch propellers. The propulsion system provides a full speed of 31kt.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

thats a great lookin ship !! but what we need is subs

 

[Archie]

There is no need for such a heavy cruiser in Indian Navy
Like Falcon said , at 21000 ton , this ship is of the size of a small aircraft carrier
What Indian navy needs is Bigger destroyers than the 6700 ton class Kolkata class destroyers that we are building
Something of the size of British Type 45 HMS Daring would be more than enough at 7500 tons
Even the USN doesnot operate ships of this size ,though they have 22 cruisers compared to Russia with only 6 , there Cruisers are only between 9500-11000 tons, which is half the size of Russian ships of this class