What happened to the Kirov’s SS-N-14 twin launcher?
 

I was reading Norman Polmar’s “Guide to the Soviet Navy� and I noticed the Kirov CGN has a twin SS-N-14 “Silex� missile launcher forward of its SA-N-6 VLS launchers. I searched the net (since I don’t have a scanner) and found this image…
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/7...71194wf.th.jpg

What happened to this launcher? I have a feeling the Kirov in DW isn’t as deadly as it could be.

Also interestingly this launcher seems to be the only SS-N-14 launcher that could be reloaded while underay. :hmm:

I bet they sold it to Iran. :yep:

I know Kapitain will be in here in a moment, so I'll get this in first...


Maybe it fell off?

:rotfl: :rotfl:

I'll be expecting at least one paragraph with multiple spelling errors explaining what happened. :rotfl: :rotfl: :arrgh!:

lol guys

all four kirovs are diffrent no two are the same some have bulbous bows some dont in fact admiral ushakov i think has the bulbos bow,

they have chopped and changed the equipent on them so many times its hard to keep track but i suspect that the SS-N-14 has been replaced with something else.


NOTE: speling puntuation and gramer is way over my head

:lol:

They secured them to the platforms with all the duct tape that they could manage, but, alas, the sea took them.