How many kills would a Kilo be expected to make?

[Orm]

Beware, History has proven more than once that they are the ones that underestimate others that will get kick in their a...

[Kapitan]

in the old days of cold war submarines were seen as Expendable now days its not so, the more ships the better kilo should realy kill at least 6 to make a diffrence , after all there was 24 built only 11 remain.

The kilo nowdays is quite limited in what it can do, the russian ones cant go very deep or fast (same as all) and they are now getting fairly old so today id say one shot one kill where as if it was akula it be at least 20.

[Bill Nichols]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

in the old days of cold war submarines were seen as Expendable ....

Maybe in the USSR...

[Kapitan]

The were bill why do you think they launched over 250 whiskeys? not because they had some spear cash it was simply because they knew that they couldnt comete with the west's tech so to get round it they built up in numbers.

The could affored to "loose a few"

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Bill Nichols

Maybe in the USSR...

Note the look on Bill's face. Thats the "Their telling me this now" look.

Originally Posted by Kapitan

The could affored to "loose a few"

... dozen...

[Kapitan]

Few dozen my my TLAM you are generous personaly id have said almost the lot !

[Linton]

I am sure that any Iranian Kilo sent into combat will be on a one way mission.They will all be wearing twelve pairs of underpants and expecting the truckload of virgins to be waiting for them in the afterlife.An adcap will be their bus ticket.

[Takeda Shingen]

I would not question the Kilo class. It remains a capable, if not particularly state-of-the-art threat. What I would question are the Iranian crews and tactics of attack. In the hands of the Russians or Chinese, I would be concerned. In the hands of the Iranians, I am not so worried.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Kurushio

Thanks for the quick reply Bill. So would that be considered a success or failure for the Kilo...cost effective wise? At what point would a Kilo be considered a "good investment"? If it took out a FFG then got destroyed...is that good for the Kilo?

Your answer may depend on whether you are part of it's crew onboard, or not.

[LuftWolf]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I would not question the Kilo class. It remains a capable, if not particularly state-of-the-art threat. What I would question are the Iranian crews and tactics of attack. In the hands of the Russians or Chinese, I would be concerned. In the hands of the Iranians, I am not so worried.

Before the revolution, the Iranian sub crews trained here in the states in the same places our sub crews trained.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by LuftWolf

Before the revolution, the Iranian sub crews trained here in the states in the same places our sub crews trained.

Oh, so they recieved the same training. Then we are doomed. All of us. All.

Or, more likely, they leared how to dive and surface their boat, how to achieve neutral bouyancy, etc. I am fairly confident that the finer points of submarine warfare were not discussed with them. Besides that training is near 30 years old. Naval warfare has changed a lot since then.

[Kapitan]

Tak has a point, we have trained other crews here in the UK i know of some indians that have trained here but they are not taught what we are taught, we can safely say iran has no proper training for her crew.

[LuftWolf]

My point was more about geo-politics. :P

[Wildcat]

if they can figure out nuclear physics as they claim to have done, and are able to operate supercavitation torpedoes as they claim to have done, I'm damned sure they can figure out how to operate sonar in littoral water environments off their own coasts.

To echo someone elses statements in here, do not underestimate anyone. Underestimation is the prime ingredient needed to receive a big arse whooping.

[Deamon]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

The were bill why do you think they launched over 250 whiskeys?

Aren't half of the russians subs just spare parts storage ?

Deamon