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ikalugin · 06-17-15, 03:06 PM

Well, even though Mistral selection was opposed by many, in my opinion Russian Navy needs LHDs, at least to conduct initial landings. The recent news imply the Navy's desire to acquire 4 of those ships.

The ship's themselves are smaller and carry fewer helicopters and other things.

Some troll math. It is known that pr.949As are being refitted into pr.949AMs, with replacement of their 24 Granit AShM launchers with 72 Yahont launchers. This means that between at least 4 Oscar series (2 of which are already being refit) who are planned to go through that refit we would have the same quantity of AShMs, as RN would have Aster series SAMs between it's 6 T45 destroyers.

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ikalugin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 3,212 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Well, even though Mistral selection was opposed by many, in my opinion Russian Navy needs LHDs, at least to conduct initial landings. The recent news imply the Navy's desire to acquire 4 of those ships. The ship's themselves are smaller and carry fewer helicopters and other things. Some troll math. It is known that pr.949As are being refitted into pr.949AMs, with replacement of their 24 Granit AShM launchers with 72 Yahont launchers. This means that between at least 4 Oscar series (2 of which are already being refit) who are planned to go through that refit we would have the same quantity of AShMs, as RN would have Aster series SAMs between it's 6 T45 destroyers. __________________ Grumpy as always. Last edited by ikalugin; 06-17-15 at 03:18 PM.