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    Domestic production of marine engines for Russian Navy

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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri May 17, 2019 10:15 pm

    Russia has recreated the production of gas turbine engines for combat ships
    https://regnum.ru/news/economy/2630696.html
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    Post  GarryB Sat May 18, 2019 4:15 am

    It is one thing to say they are ready to make them, it is another to actually make the number you need, while also providing a source for space parts and components to repair and maintain existing engines as well as new engines fitted to ships.
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    Post  Gazputin Sun May 19, 2019 9:16 am

    pretty sure they in "pilot build" with gas turbines
    so they are getting very close to mass production …. with "less skilled" employees

    but you have to remember the entire Russian gas turbine industry is under a lot of pressure
    and the manufacturers of the high temperature cores …. have a lot of heat on them …. literally

    it is truly remarkable what they have done to date …. remarkable people

    diesels ? …. no idea ….
    to be honest …. I'd be focussed on gas turbines with electric backup anyway ….

    all navies have the same problem …. cost of operation
    and LNG driven gas turbine + electric is a no-brainer for Russia you would think ….

    most of the US Navy runs gas turbines … as the USA oil is not suitable strategically for diesel …. too light
    Russia should think the same way … strategically …. and its cheaper anyway

    as I keep saying …. that 20386 corvette is a really really really interesting boat ….
    it is the future …. gas turbine / electric ….. multi-functional …. container modularity





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    Post  marcellogo Sun May 19, 2019 11:00 am

    Gazputin wrote:pretty sure they in "pilot build" with gas turbines
    so they are getting very close to mass production …. with "less skilled" employees

    but you have to remember the entire Russian gas turbine industry is under a lot of pressure
    and the manufacturers of the high temperature cores …. have a lot of heat on them …. literally

    it is truly remarkable what they have done to date  …. remarkable people

    diesels ? …. no idea  ….
    to be honest …. I'd be focussed on gas turbines with electric backup anyway ….

    all navies have the same problem …. cost of operation
    and LNG driven gas turbine + electric is a no-brainer for Russia you would think ….

    most of the US Navy runs gas turbines … as the USA oil is not suitable strategically for diesel …. too light
    Russia should think the same way  … strategically …. and its cheaper anyway

    as I keep saying …. that 20386 corvette is a really really really interesting boat ….
    it is the future  …. gas turbine / electric ….. multi-functional …. container modularity






    Yes but generally the electric part of the hybrid system is obtained not by the das turbines but by charging it with diesel generators. Lot of CODLAG or CODLOG, latest proposal are toward get it in full: diesels for bothcruise propulsion and electrical production, Gas for speed with the possibility of combine them all together when you want to go really fast.
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    Post  Gazputin Mon May 20, 2019 9:49 am

    I've been trying to fully understand it all

    my understanding is the RAN are the world leaders in hybrid drives
    so you'd have to expect that the new QE-class carriers are the "latest"

    they seem to be using electric final drive and the generation of the electricity is from either the gas turbines or the diesels
    yes diesels for cruising ….. gas turbines for sprinting … generally but not strictly set that way it seems

    having electric final drives makes perfect sense as you don't need to have your drive shafts aligned with your gas turbines etc …
    and you can use pod drives … etc …. and gives you huge areas to design your ship differently re the engine room

    its pretty obvious to me that you want final electric drive … its a no brainer
    I can't see why it wouldn't all be DC …. so infinitely variable control should be a doddle
    you only use AC to transmit power over long distances …

    but yep definitely a big area of development …. everything will go this way
    no doubt in my mind

    as I've said endlessly on this site …. the 20386 corvette is a really important ship

    I really like these discussions …. instead of the endless drivel about missiles etc







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    Post  GarryB Tue May 21, 2019 6:37 am

    In terms of generating electrical power the GT is ideal... compact and powerful... they don't like dust but that is a problem on a tank but not a ship... and they don't take load very well so a T-80 or an M1A Abrams will burn a lot of fuel driving around the place... mainly because a lot of the driving for a tank is not on motorways at top speed... it is sitting behind a house in a village and then rapidly moving from there to another point of concealment... so stationary and then short bursts of maximum acceleration and then stop... which is very inefficient for a gas turbine, but fine for an electric drive vehicle with gas turbine energy production because the GT just maintains ideal revs to generate electricity... the problem is storing that electricity in a way that it is always ready and also ready in great volumes for fast acceleration from cover to cover.

    On a ship you could just have several GTs where most of the time you only have one working generating electrical current to power everything on board and run at a modest speed... GTs are relatively quick and easy to start up so powering up another three GTs to power everything at full power and run at top speed is not a problem.

    You will have a capacitor bank to temporarily store more power and batteries too and when needed you can fire them up too for extra speed and power.

    Of course a small nuclear generator like a battery would be useful too for emergency backup, to get you home...

    You could optimise the GT to run on LNG so it will be cheap to run as Russia has plenty of that to spare... and one LNG tanker with 200K tons of LNG could keep a surface fleet going for months or years depending on the tempo of operations.
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    Post  wilhelm Sat Nov 30, 2019 2:24 am

    Any news on serial production of the marine turbines?
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    Post  mnztr Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:02 pm

    marcellogo wrote:
    Yes but generally the electric part of the hybrid system is obtained not by the das turbines but by charging it with diesel generators. Lot of CODLAG or CODLOG, latest proposal are toward get it in full: diesels for bothcruise propulsion and electrical production, Gas for speed with the possibility of combine them all together when you want to go really fast.

    Yes typically they have 2 diesels for electric generation and 1 or 2 turbines also for electric generaton or they turbines can also be dog geared to the drive shaft. They sit there while the ship pottered around in diesel electric mode maybe up to 12 knots or so. When the *hit hits the fan and they need to move they fire up the turbines and they they blast along at 30+ knots as soon as it is warm enough and spooled up...which in most cases is a few min. I would assume they also have oil heaters so the turbine will not be dead cold when it fires up.
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    Post  GarryB Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:05 am

    Of course different vehicles are different... a lot of very large vessels have rather small diesel engines or small gas turbines to generate emergency power independent of the main propulsion systems and might be used for low speed get you home sort of situations when the main engine wont start but you need to keep things working and to move about.

    Very much a sail back to home base at 6-8 knots and keep the lights on rather than stay in the battle and keep all the radars going and all the systems like communications etc etc.
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    Post  Big_Gazza Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:00 am

    The first frigate of project 22350 with a fully Russian power plant - Admiral Golovko - will be launched before July 1 according to CEO of Severnaya Verf Shipyard Igor Ponomarev.

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    Very good news! Very Happy   and a big Fuck You to the Ukro nazi scumbags!! Laughing  russia
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    Post  flamming_python Fri Feb 07, 2020 12:13 pm

    Big_Gazza wrote:
    Very good news! Very Happy   and a big Fuck You to the Ukro nazi scumbags!! Laughing  russia

    Why?

    Is the Russian Navy hitting them with Kalibrs yet?
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    Post  Big_Gazza Fri Feb 07, 2020 2:02 pm

    Do I really need to explain why domestic Russian MGTs being installed to Russian warships is great news? Suspect
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    Post  Hole Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:10 pm

    YES. Please, go ahead. Laughing

    I expect at least 1.000 words from you! lol!
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    Post  kvs Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:27 pm

    Big_Gazza wrote:The first frigate of project 22350 with a fully Russian power plant - Admiral Golovko - will be launched before July 1 according to CEO of Severnaya Verf Shipyard Igor Ponomarev.

    source

    Very good news! Very Happy   and a big Fuck You to the Ukro nazi scumbags!! Laughing  russia

    The Kiev regime maggots are so smart that they are stupid. These retards thought Russia could not afford and was not capable of replacing
    Ukr production with Russian-made products. They can now eat shit. Russia has managed to replace all Ukr engines with its own new and
    more efficient designs. Ukr-tards can look on as their factories close and they permanently lose the ability to make the products that they
    were previously exporting to Russia.

    As for Russia taking out the Kiev regime. Why should it. The Kiev regime has solid support from 40% of Ukr-land. Russia has no obligation
    to wipe the asses of these degenerates. They can spiral to null of their own samo-bozhe-vilnost and Russia can look on and laugh.

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    Post  Rodion_Romanovic Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:27 am

    PapaDragon wrote:
    marat wrote:Just one Karakut?

    Engine delivery problems

    They have half a dozen sitting around waiting for diesels


    By the way, did they manage to start organizing production of those engines (M-507D1) also data different plant than Zvezda (of course, unless the bottleneck is some of Zvezda suppliers)?

    I remember reading about it some time ago (maybe it was last year)...
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    Post  marat Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:52 pm

    PapaDragon wrote:
    marat wrote:Just one Karakut?

    Engine delivery problems

    They have half a dozen sitting around waiting for diesels


    What a imbecils.... why they produce ships if engines are not avaialbe? They havent any better way to sped money? And they do that again and again and again...

    Isnt it obivious that they should stop production and spend money on project they could finish? Either military or civilian....
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    Post  Isos Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:56 pm

    That's rather pathetic they never asked for a ToT for the engines to produce them locally. Right now they would be making perfect copies like China is doing with German engines.

    I guess they will learn the lesson. Never be dependant on someone.
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    Post  Rodion_Romanovic Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:01 am

    Isos wrote:That's rather pathetic they never asked for a ToT for the engines to produce them locally. Right now they would be making perfect copies like China is doing with German engines.

    I guess they will learn the lesson. Never be dependant on someone.

    Well the Chinese diesels are not perfect copy or german engines, as far I understand they asked for licences production of an older version of the german diesel, but they have some reliability issues (and I believe also other characteristics are not the same).

    Furthermore, even if you have the drawings and even if you can assemble the engine it does not mean that you can produce it without external help if you are not able to produce any single part.

    As an example, if I am not mistaken, one of the issue that one of the new Russian diesel engine has its exactly its too high share of foreign components...

    http://mil.today/2018/Navy28/ wrote:
    A source in the Russian engine industry said the principal drawback of D500 was huge import dependency due to an array of foreign-made components. Hopefully, this problem would be fixed in the next few years, commented the interviewee of Mil.Press Today.

    Note this engine should eventually replace the D49 series (medium speed diesel) from Kolomensky Zavod, and it is not related to the  Zvezda M507 engine (high speed diesel) mounted on karakurts...

    Here some info on the Zvezda M507, that is anyway an old engine..

    https://zen.yandex.ru/media/tgd/o-dizele-bednom-zamolvite-slovo-pochemu-net-dvigatelei-dlia-novyh-korablei-5be156f644fea400aaec3dc7
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    Post  SeigSoloyvov Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:08 am

    Lol they still rely on foreign parts for their engines? did they not learn their listen the first time.

    What a joke.
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    Post  Rodion_Romanovic Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:14 am

    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Lol they still rely on foreign parts for their engines? did they not learn their listen the first time.

    What a joke.
    Well they started working on it before 2013 most probably...
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    Post  SeigSoloyvov Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:19 am

    Rodion_Romanovic wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Lol they still rely on foreign parts for their engines? did they not learn their listen the first time.

    What a joke.
    Well they started working on it before 2013 most probably...

    Doubt it, making their own engines was never a concern before then.
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    Post  GarryB Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:49 pm

    This is hilarious... please one person from one country tell me is your country self sufficient right now?

    The US has Russian rockets in their possession and complete plans for their design but it takes them 10 years to build something that could do the same job.

    China has had Russian jet engines in service for quite some time but really are having trouble copying them to get the same performance and fuel efficiency...

    Do you think Russia and America and China are all idiots?

    Is it really just a case of copying all the components and assembling them together and you have a working engine?

    China has proved that not to be the case when Russia bought Chinese versions of German diesel engines and they were terrible.

    When those boats were built they had contracts for the necessary engines that would go into them.

    If you want to bitch and moan about incompetence moan about Germany blocking the sales of engines to Russia... the country bending over backwards to get them cheap gas so their production costs wont go up too much in the future... and why did they do that? Who remembers... putin invading crimea, putin invading the Ukraine, putin personally murdering people in the UK... or some such bullshit.

    I personally feel sorry for the workers in France and Germany who just want to build ships and make engines while their politicians play silly games, but eventually it will get sorted with Russian engines to do the job and those Russian engines can then be sold on the international market in direct competition to the likely more expensive German engines and their Chinese copies. My father had a fishing boat that had a chinese diesel engine in it... it was fantastic. simple and solid and reliable... running it most of the day it was costing him about $12 in fuel... which means he was essentially burning about 24 litres of fuel a day... I know a guy with a fizz boat it costs him hundreds of dollars a day to run... he would use more than 5 litres of petrol to start the damn thing...

    Doubt it, making their own engines was never a concern before then.

    Foreign parts has always been a concern for the Russians. Made more so by western sanctions and general bullshit.
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    Post  Isos Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:39 pm

    Is it really just a case of copying all the components and assembling them together and you have a working engine?

    No but if you ask for ToT when you buy such technologies it's easier then to make your own version if the country stops selling to you.

    Having just the engines, having the the engine + data sheets, having the engines + data sheets + some production lines is not the same.
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    Post  GarryB Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:14 am

    Making parts for an engine is not just a case of shaping bits of metal and putting them together.

    In a jet engine there are lots of very complex parts made of alloys of several different metals combined... having the parts and therefore being able to analyse them and work out what materials are involved is not the solution... the super expensive high tech bits in French engines that America makes for them out of Titanium are made with Russian titanium. When Russia decided to make all its own engines in a range of families to suit any sized final product you want from tiny drone or cruise missile up to a transport to replace the An-225, the French made the offer that instead they could make the precision made titanium bits they get made in the US because they can't make them themselves... the offer they were hoping would get Russia to keep buying french engines and in return Russia would be making the money that the US is making providing the complex and very precisely made titanium parts in their engines... in the engines they use themselves and of course all the other engines world wide that the French make. An interesting offer, but with the case of the Mistrals... Russia can't trust France, so again American pressure on France costs France money and contracts and they stay tied to US components for their engines too.

    A diesel engine is not as complex but a big powerful diesel engine will need very precisely made parts and specific alloys will need to be used for it to work properly.... make a part to the wrong hardness and it might be too soft and wear out quickly leading to breakdowns and needing replacements. Too hard and the piece might shatter or crack and do damage to other parts and again lead to breakdowns and needing replacements.

    A ships engine is not like a car engine... you can't just pop the hood and fix the problem or if necessary take the engine out and fix what needs to be fixed and replace what needs to be replaced.

    Over time the Chinese are going to work out what parts are the issue and get the hardness right... it was probably the reason they used that special alloy of several metals to make it... but that wont show on the plans...

    Their problem is a lack of domestic diesel engines in a specific power range... there is clearly a need so it really shouldn't take too long with their modular and scalable powerplants drive to get to a solution for this and other boats with the same problem.

    Few countries with good products will provide full ToT to just anyone without getting paid the equivalent of selling the product to anyone who might buy it, because once you sell it and if you stop selling it... lets face it... not just likely for Germany and France to Russia... it happened, then once you sell ToT you have to expect them to not only keep making them but also to include them in products they sell to others which will cut into your sales of your own product.

    Russia isn't having a shit fit over China making Flankers because they are using them domestically and don't seem to be making them in huge numbers... if it is just for domestic consumption then they don't over react.
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    Post  PhSt Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:37 am


    but eventually it will get sorted with Russian engines to do the job

    and when is this going to get sorted out? its been 6 years since Ukraine blocked sale of ship engines to Russia, how much more time does Russia need to develop a working domestic engine? 20 years? 30? by that time the engine they are making will be obsolete

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