Russian Navy: Status & News #4

william.boutros wrote:You would need a large number of such missiles in the hundreds as was the case in desert storm.
A dozen Buyan Class need to be gathered to equate 1 Arleigh-Bruke class in strike power.

Not quite. Russian doctrine of use of cruise missiles in a war with an advanced enemy does not include only massive use of cruise missiles. Thats different from what US had in Iraq or Serbia, where it used those missiles to target even low-value military targets and civilian infrastructure. Russia will use them to destroy high value military assets only, thus reducing ammount of missiles needed by order of magnitude. That will leave other targets to the bombers, TBMs and artillery.
As for Buyan class with AB class, actualy sincle Buyan has much higher anti-ship firepower than single AB class. That is through mere fact that Buyan uses much more advanced ASMs with much higher probability of defenses penetration.

Also as people noted here already, small ships and boats can capitalize advantage of ~100K km Russian river ways and river ways of its allies.

MarshallJukov wrote:

william.boutros wrote:You would need a large number of such missiles in the hundreds as was the case in desert storm.
A dozen Buyan Class need to be gathered to equate 1 Arleigh-Bruke class in strike power.

Not quite. Russian doctrine of use of cruise missiles in a war with an advanced enemy does not include only massive use of cruise missiles. Thats different from what US had in Iraq or Serbia, where it used those missiles to target even low-value military targets and civilian infrastructure. Russia will use them to destroy high value military assets only, thus reducing ammount of missiles needed by order of magnitude. That will leave other targets to the bombers, TBMs and artillery.
As for Buyan class with AB class, actualy sincle Buyan has much higher anti-ship firepower than single AB class. That is through mere fact that Buyan uses much more advanced ASMs with much higher probability of defenses penetration.

Also as people noted here already, small ships and boats can capitalize advantage of ~100K km Russian river ways and river ways of its allies.

I do not see any advantage of Buyan and Karakut over one Tu-95. TU 95 needs no rivers, it had bigger range, could carry same number of CM etc etc.
Generally rivers are no advantage at all, in case of war CM would be placed on truck TEL vehicles.

And saying that Buyan have bigger firepower then AB is just....
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marat wrote:

MarshallJukov wrote:

william.boutros wrote:You would need a large number of such missiles in the hundreds as was the case in desert storm.
A dozen Buyan Class need to be gathered to equate 1 Arleigh-Bruke class in strike power.

Not quite. Russian doctrine of use of cruise missiles in a war with an advanced enemy does not include only massive use of cruise missiles. Thats different from what US had in Iraq or Serbia, where it used those missiles to target even low-value military targets and civilian infrastructure. Russia will use them to destroy high value military assets only, thus reducing ammount of missiles needed by order of magnitude. That will leave other targets to the bombers, TBMs and artillery.
As for Buyan class with AB class, actualy sincle Buyan has much higher anti-ship firepower than single AB class. That is through mere fact that Buyan uses much more advanced ASMs with much higher probability of defenses penetration.

Also as people noted here already, small ships and boats can capitalize advantage of ~100K km Russian river ways and river ways of its allies.

I do not see any advantage of Buyan and Karakut over one Tu-95. TU 95 needs no rivers, it had bigger range, could carry same number of CM etc etc.
Generally rivers are no advantage at all, in case of war CM would be placed on truck TEL vehicles.

And saying that Buyan have bigger firepower then AB is just....  
no comment

Well you know the old saying, in Russia everything is opposite...so I guess in Russia eight is bigger then 90.

The facts Buyans can go in rivers doesn't offer them a major advantage in war honestly it's a nice little thing don't get me wrong you can move them around easier sure but that won't help much in the end

@marat, SeigSoloyvov:

This is exactly what was said:

As for Buyan class with AB class, actualy sincle Buyan has much higher anti-ship firepower than single AB class. That is through mere fact that Buyan uses much more advanced ASMs with much higher probability of defenses penetration.

This makes full sense if you actually care reading. AShM onboard an AB are Harpoons unless I am very wrong. Buyans carry 3M-54T. As far as I know the first has way shorter range and is subsonic during all the flight, while the longer ranged Kalibr almost reaches 3 M in terminal approach and is logically way more difficult to intercept. ABs are meant as defensive vessels for a carrier group, with very strong AD capabilities, but as anti-ship a single Buyan could be more dangerous. This is an asymmetric way of deterrence against a much stronger USN, not a way to dominate the seas, but the threat it represents is completely credible.

LMFS wrote:@marat, SeigSoloyvov:

This is exactly what was said:

As for Buyan class with AB class, actualy sincle Buyan has much higher anti-ship firepower than single AB class. That is through mere fact that Buyan uses much more advanced ASMs with much higher probability of defenses penetration.

This makes full sense if you actually care reading. AShM onboard an AB are Harpoons unless I am very wrong. Buyans carry 3M-54T. As far as I know the first has way shorter range and is subsonic during all the flight, while the longer ranged Kalibr almost reaches 3 M in terminal approach and is logically way more difficult to intercept. ABs are meant as defensive vessels for a carrier group, with very strong AD capabilities, but as anti-ship a single Buyan could be more dangerous. This is an asymmetric way of deterrence against a much stronger USN, not a way to dominate the seas, but the threat it represents is completely credible.

True but.....

AB will find Buyan before Buyan could find him.

Buyan have no choppers and have lower radar position. So AB will see first. shoot first, and kill first. His AGM 84 are good enough for Buyan and its weak AD.

Also his choppers could attack Buyan as well far before Buyan find AB and they could use AGM 119 from 30+km.
Same goes with Karakut.

Missiles are not only asset that we have to consider when discuss firepower.

You all don't compare AB with Buyan which designed for extremely different purpose in mind.

Buyan wont go fight over open ocean like AB Does and AB won't get into Moscow canals.

Most likely when it needs to fight Buyan will be near Russia protected by other assets and do its job from there. In open seas she'll be just as good as dead and even high wave can kill her.

LMFS wrote:@marat, SeigSoloyvov:

This is exactly what was said:

As for Buyan class with AB class, actualy sincle Buyan has much higher anti-ship firepower than single AB class. That is through mere fact that Buyan uses much more advanced ASMs with much higher probability of defenses penetration.

This makes full sense if you actually care reading. AShM onboard an AB are Harpoons unless I am very wrong. Buyans carry 3M-54T. As far as I know the first has way shorter range and is subsonic during all the flight, while the longer ranged Kalibr almost reaches 3 M in terminal approach and is logically way more difficult to intercept. ABs are meant as defensive vessels for a carrier group, with very strong AD capabilities, but as anti-ship a single Buyan could be more dangerous. This is an asymmetric way of deterrence against a much stronger USN, not a way to dominate the seas, but the threat it represents is completely credible.

Okay

Number 1 to overwhelm a single Burke defense is going tot ake way more missiles then a single Buyan-M carries. This myth that the Buyan can destroy burkes only exists in this forum got ell any serious naval expert and they will laugh hard if you tell them a Buyan-M alone can sink a Burke.

Buyan-M loses to AB any day of the week, it's simply not possible for that ship to win 1v1 nor was it ever designed to fight Burkes, the burke shave many more capabilities than the Buyan's have

The burke can carry many more harpoons then a Buyan can Kalibers, it can bring many more missiles to bear than a Buyan-M can this isn't a comparable match up and is frankly unfair to the Buyan-M

Bigger anti-ship firepower.
Its true: 8* (flight 1) or 0* Harpoons (flight 2 & 3) vs 8* Sizzler supersonic or longer-range sub-sonic Kalibr = Buyan-M has more anti-ship firepower.

Obviously not anything like the overall abilities & nobody said 'able to singlehandedly beat a Burke' but in that particular metric yes more firepower.  
...At least until they start mounting VLS LRASM in Burkes.


I see 3 basic interpretations of the Buyan-M/22800:
They can be considered an example of the US Streetfighter concept of small cheap ships with distributed lethality, closer to the original idea in several respects than the LCS.

But in the Russian tradition/strategic position they can be seen as primarily defensive missile boats 'mosquito fleet' which has its ancestry in the post-Tsushima era where Imperial Russia adopted the ideas of the French Jeune Ecole school, producing a bunch of torpedo boats & the first 'modern' Destroyers.
Again in the early Soviet era they turned initially to small Destroyers/Gunboats.
Then in the later Soviet period we have large numbers of Tarantul & Nanuchka missile boats.

The other interpretation is being evolved from the Buyan which was designed primarily for shore bombardment with 100mm gun & Grad rockets the long range Kalibr strike from Caspian may have been the primary goal of the enlarged -M version.
(I picture some young newbie presenting his brainstorm getting chewed out harshly before the value of the concept sunk in )
22800 then takes that same concept but mixes in more missile boat, puts it on a more seaworthy hull & adds both Onyx and Pantsir-M -> back to the Streetfighter style.


Individually yes for launching land attack strikes 8 missiles is not all that powerful against a defended opponent but is proven useful for surgical strikes against a weaker opponent.
The squadrons of 6 that they are being built in gives a pretty healthy 48 missile throw at quite low cost & requiring 6 separate hits to neutralise.
Currently with 3* Buyan-M, 3* Grigorovich & 6* Kilo the BSF has a theoretical 84 missile salvo (with up to 72 more reloads in the Kilos).
With the plan for 6* Buyan-M, 6* Grigorovich, 6* Kilo & 6* 22160 (2*4 containerised Kalibr) the throw would be 180 missiles.

@marat, SeigSoloyvov:

Nobody is saying corvette wins 1 on 1 vs AB for god's sake. Just wanted to point out that original argument was factually correct.

Buyan-M and Karakurt have UKSK launchers, from which they could not launch only Calibr class missiles, but Onyx missiles as well. For anti-ship role, they will take Onyx missiles with 600 km range and 2,5 mach speed, which is far longer and faster than any Harpoon missile, which in the longest range version have range of 310 km and speed of 0,7 Mach.

Buyan-M armed with Onyx missiles is actually very dangerous for Burkes, specially when Burkes have to come closer to shore to launch cruise missiles. In that case Buyan-M could hide in river delta and launch long range Onyx missiles on Burkes from safe distance. And add to them Bastion coast complexes armed with Onyx missiles as well and they could easily close closed seas like Black Sea and keep US ships far away from their coasts and with that negate their cruise missiles attacks.

Where the hell is this Buyan/Burk comparison coming from?

The question was 'whats the reasoning behind the UKSK equipped small ships'.
Someone mentioned the anti-ship firepower being better than a Burke -> all sorts of other nonsense.

marat wrote:I do not see any advantage of Buyan and Karakut over one Tu-95. TU 95 needs no rivers, it had bigger range, could carry same number of CM etc etc.
Generally rivers are no advantage at all, in case of war CM would be placed on truck TEL vehicles.

Apples and oranges. And BTW, Tu-95 carries no long range ASMs

marat wrote:And saying that Buyan have bigger firepower then AB is just....  
no comment

Remind me please, how many supersonic/hypersonic ASMs does ABs carry?

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GunshipDemocracy wrote:

marat wrote:
Same goes with Karakut.

with positiv radar i has now range of 300kms to see AB. With 40km range Pantsit missiles any chopper unlikely reaches her.

Missiles are not only asset that we have to consider when discuss firepower.

true that's why in realistic scenarios it is unlikely to happen.  Where one 22800 would fight against one AB?!

He cannot find AB from more then 40 km, no matter what is stated in promo material. Radar is low so his horizont is not 300 km.

MarshallJukov wrote:

marat wrote:I do not see any advantage of Buyan and Karakut over one Tu-95. TU 95 needs no rivers, it had bigger range, could carry same number of CM etc etc.
Generally rivers are no advantage at all, in case of war CM would be placed on truck TEL vehicles.

Apples and oranges. And BTW, Tu-95 carries no long range ASMs

marat wrote:And saying that Buyan have bigger firepower then AB is just....  
no comment

Remind me please, how many supersonic/hypersonic ASMs does ABs carry?

So supersonic/hypersonic ASMs is all that matter? Since when?

AB have more then one asset that could be used agains ship.

His standard SAM could be used in AS mode, they are supersonic and he can bring dozens of them. And practically he could fire them on longer range then Buyan could fire its ASM as Buyan would be blind in comparation with AB.

Also they have Harpoon, they are not supersonic but they are more then good enough for Buyan. And he have helicopters as well, so claiming that Buyan have bigger AS potential is just non sense.