Onkel Neal
02-25-20, 08:49 AM
Inside Russia’s Laika Next Generation Attack Submarine
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/02/inside-russias-laika-next-generation-attack-submarine/
The submarine model shows a relatively conventional layout with hints of both the Akula and Severodvinsk classes. Like Akula it will revert to the traditional Russian double-hull convention. And also appears, like Akula, to have a chin mounted sonar. The first Severodvinsk boat had introduced a spherical array, taking up the entire bow much like older US Navy designs. That appears to have been dropped in favor of a conformal array in subsequent Severodvinsk-class boats. But they were left with flank torpedo tubes angled outward to go around the ghost of the spherical array.
https://www.navalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Husky-Laika-submarine-Malachite-1024x514.jpg
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/02/inside-russias-laika-next-generation-attack-submarine/
The submarine model shows a relatively conventional layout with hints of both the Akula and Severodvinsk classes. Like Akula it will revert to the traditional Russian double-hull convention. And also appears, like Akula, to have a chin mounted sonar. The first Severodvinsk boat had introduced a spherical array, taking up the entire bow much like older US Navy designs. That appears to have been dropped in favor of a conformal array in subsequent Severodvinsk-class boats. But they were left with flank torpedo tubes angled outward to go around the ghost of the spherical array.
https://www.navalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Husky-Laika-submarine-Malachite-1024x514.jpg