An alarming glint in your gloomy face, a hot cry: "Open fire!"
An informative and entertaining article about the beauty and capabilities of the navy.
Destroyer "Fast" fires "Mosquito". Strategic command post exercises "Vostok-2014".
The long distance from which this picture was taken hides the real dimensions of the rocket. The Mosquito's length is 9 meters. The launch weight is 4 tons.
Three-plane anti-ship munition, designated by NATO as "Sunburn" ("sunburn"). Equipped with a sustainer ramjet engine. Even today, Mosquito continues to pose a threat to any enemy. Not a single American "Aegis" is capable of intercepting such a target, all the hope is only on the means of electronic warfare.
Continuing the chronicle of the Vostok-2014 KSHU. Launch of the Granit anti-ship missile system from a submerged position from the Project 949A submarine.
Shooting of dipole reflectors from the side of the "Admiral Panteleev" submarine.
In battle - “bad weather division”. Small rocket ship "Smerch" puts passive jamming.
The Chinese destroyer "Harbin" fires with a 100 mm gun PJ-33A. Joint Russian-Chinese exercises in the Yellow Sea "Maritime Interaction 2012".
Promotional poster of the Indian Navy. Talvar-class frigates fire from jet bomb launchers (RBU-6000). "Talvary" is an export version of the Russian frigate pr. 11356.
And this is no longer a joke. The Philippine Sea missile cruiser fires at ISIS positions. September 2014, Red Sea.
The starting booster throws the Tomahawk up 1000 feet. There, on the descending branch of the ballistic trajectory, the air intake of the main engine extends, the rocket spreads its short wings and lays down on a combat course.
… The coastline curved under the wing - "Battle Ax" arrived in the area of primary correction. The TERCOM and DSMAC guidance systems are activated, the radar and optical sensors carefully "feel" the terrain. After checking the received data with satellite images, "Tomahawk" swung the short planes of the rudders and rushed in the direction of the chosen target …
Where can we go without large-caliber "bombards"! Winter 1991, Missouri gut Iraqi shores.
The average firing range of battleships during Operation Desert Storm was 35 kilometers.
The explosion of an 862 kg Mk.13 high-explosive projectile created a 15-meter crater 6 meters deep. Vietnam veterans recalled how the blast wave cleared a "spot" in the jungle with a radius of 180 meters, suitable for a helicopter landing.
At a distance of 20 kilometers, the 1225-kg armor-piercing "suitcase" Mk.8 APC could penetrate half a meter of steel armor or over six meters of reinforced concrete - no fortification could withstand the power of 406 mm guns.
By analyzing the video recordings, it was established: "Iowa" could make up to 1000 rounds of the main caliber in an hour. This density of fire corresponded to the air wings of two aircraft carriers.
The battleship New Jersey shells Korea. 1953 year
Missile cruiser Albany is in action! Built at the very end of World War II, Albany was completely rebuilt into a rocket ship. A true steam-punk masterpiece: boilers and radars, decorated with 40-meter mast pipes and five rocket systems.
Another retro photo from the 60s. The destroyer "Aberholme" zhahnul special ammunition.
Her Majesty's Battle Dragon. Shot of the antiaircraft destroyer Dragon.
Anti-sabotage means of the frigate "Cornwell". Persian Gulf. The installation itself is a classic "Oerlikon" on a modern gun carriage.
Exit "Tomahawk" from the bow UVP of the destroyer "Farragut".
Launch of the space interceptor SM-3 from the Japanese destroyer "Congo", 2007.
