Today myself and my friend madcap conducted exercises trialing the Destroyers Panteleyev and kulakov, missions conducted ranged from barrier search ASW to transit search ASuW some AAW was in the package also.
Our main goal in our second phase exercise which we conducted along side Nastroychivvy (sovremenny DDG) and peter the great (Kirov CGN) was to pass through two ASW barriers and one main ASuW barrier while being hounded by TU-142F and IL-38 may aircraft and also being buzzed by low flying Mig 25 foxbats and SU-27 Flankers.
The udaloy performs well At slow speed and at high speed (25 knots or more maximum we have achieved is 30 knots). she monouvers well at high and low speed (i narrowly avoided collision with peter the great see pics) and fires her weapons well, the only true gripe is AAW missiles the SA-9 gauntlets dont have the range the SM-2 does so some of the air targets had to be taken out by either the peter the great or nastroychivvy or left to fly off.
The exercise area was 95 miles long and 45 miles wide with the command ship meridian (vishnya radar vessel) watching over us and her escort buliny (sovremenny DDG).
The flankers were easy pray for the Nastroychivvy and Peter the great as both excel in ASuW and AAW missions while we excel in ASW which is what we were there for.
In the end the Nastroychivvy was ruled damaged as one of the enamy task group scored a hit, but we eliminated all threats bar two TU-142F aircraft which were well out of range of our missiles.
In all exercise a sucsess.
Picture time!
The sovremenny class DDG Nastroychivvy conducting a U turn to avoid any chance of a torpedo attack on them and to let us go infront.
Peter the great passing madcaps udaloy (kulakov)
Second time around another U turn i will miss her but it will be close !
Passing by port to port less than 10 meters from her !
Now that really is close
Passing the sturn of the peter the great cruiser
we formed back up and again she decided to U turn wonderful off we go again.
I lost alot of the pictures these are the ones i did manage to get but we have two or three more exercises coming up very soon so il pull some from there.