Very close view of the Vepr (REAL)

[UglyMowgli]

Hurry up to take a look at this slideshow of photos made by a French submariner outisde and inside the Vepr. For security reason there is a risk of file erasing in the few next days.

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-2180970934091247258

[ASWnut101]

WATCH THE VIDEO WHILE YOU HAVE A CHANCE!!!!

Neal, I highly reccomend you put this on the front page while you have a chance!


Otherwise...

Is it just me, or do the Russians build their subs with luxury in mind? Come on! A fish tank? A nice office? Amazing!

[goldorak]

Very impressing :o
Security reasons notwithstanding I downloaded the video for posterity. :|\\

[GakunGak]

Simply beautifull!
Especially "The hunt for red october" theme...:rock:

[Sea Demon]

Awesome submarine, inside and out. :rock: Just out of curiousity, what's with the boar's head?

[Wim Libaers]

Awesome submarine, inside and out. :rock: Just out of curiousity, what's with the boar's head?


Well, the text explains it, doesn't it?

[XabbaRus]

It was OK. I was expecting more of the inside but it seemed to be many of the smae external shots repeating.

The close up of the SOKS array was interesting but apart from that I can't see anything of a security issue here.

[Fire_Spy]

Thats what I was thinking .I kept expecting there to be shots of the interior. I hardly think shots of the fish tank or exercise area to be matters of national security.

Just something I would like to know tho, What was that door? On the bow in between the torpedo tube doors??

[Mush Martin]

did you see the tongue or banana shaped door above and between
the torpedo tube doors, I wonder if its for a pair of robot arms.

[Dr.Sid]

Who posts pictures on video site ? Quality is poor, it's hard to stop & zoom. Anybody knows some better link ?

[UglyMowgli]

I will ask him to send me the a zip file with the whole photos but he said there is some kind of security restriction so I not sure he will give me the files.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Very impressing :o
Security reasons notwithstanding I downloaded the video for posterity. :|\\

Expect the KGB operatives Mr Hoisk and Mr Poisk to be a-knockin within the week ;)


Nah, somehow I think this'll stay. Hardly a threat to national security, the Americans knowing that the Captain of the Vepr has a tank of neon tetras :P

[Kapitan]

Very good layout but poor on the inside shots, i was expecting more but it did get boreing after a while.

[LuftWolf]

In poking around the net as to a good explanation of how the SOKS array functions, I found this posted to a UK military forum, supposedly posted by someone who really knows his Russian military hardware.

It was posted in 2005. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=48279


5) Yep, both Akula and Sierra have non-acoustic sensors. Strangely enough, the acoustic suite of the Sierra is less efficient than the Akula's (Skat-KS with analogue processing) but this is probably compensated by greater operational depth. Countermeasures are still classified for all subs (they have been used during "Aport" and "Atrina" ops though), however, it is possible that the experimental, 300m/sec 2nd stage submarine rocket APR-3M can also be launched individually and not only with the first stage, as a "last chance to cut-the-wires" means.


Can someone explain to me exactly what the implication about the APR-3 is here? I thought it was 1) unfielded 2) for airdropped purposes only.

YES, I know I put the APR-3 on the STALLION, but up to this point, I had no actual references about this weapon being used on Russian submarines. So, what is this guy saying here? :hmm:

I interpret this to mean that the APR-3 can be used as a independantly launched weapon and also as a SUBROC payload on Russian subs, but of course, this is the most favorable interpretation for my purposes, so I'm not inclined to believe my own read of this passage.

So what's up here?

Cheers,
David

[XabbaRus]

The keypublishing forum is one of the best to go for those kinds of discussions. People don't get nasty and fanboyish with each other so much. Unlike strategypage which is just horrible.

[SeaQueen]

People don't get nasty and fanboyish with each other so much. Unlike strategypage which is just horrible.

Yeah.. I never understood what about the strategy page provoked such anger in people. Did everyone there have an unhappy childhood or something?