Navy Day

I think its an air defense system, not a Scud one.

At a first look, one in full speed, i say in my mind - this is a Bofors 40 m.m. mobile AAA from the front side of the vehicle. Well, is not... Considering the back side of the superstructure of the carrier vechicle, i think it is a mobile shore-to-ship rocket, for SS-2- Styx. But i not bet on it.




Click on the picture and look at the details of the second vechicle. As for Scud, low chances. Romanian Scud were mounted of this type of vechicles? Or FROG?

Iama

This post has been edited by Iamandi on August 18, 2005 05:32 am

Victor, those pics with the sun rays coming out of the sky over the flotilla are amazing! Good job!

Thanks.

Regarding the unknown vehicle, I think Iamandi got it.

http://www.fortele-navale.ro/diverse/ochiu...rachete%203.jpg

The instalation is called Rubezh or Redut (depending on the type of missile used). The Truck is MAZ-543M 8x8 a common carring platform for Russian army. The Bereg costal defence artilery is on the same truck, the S-300 where also carried by it from what i remeber.

http://www.milparade.com/catalog/pdf/558.pdf
http://www.milparade.com/catalog/pdf/559.pdf

This link i think you guys will find it interesting;)
http://www.milparade.com/catalog/catalog2000.shtml


SSC-3 'Styx'
Type: Coastal defense missile
Soviet designation: 4K51 Rubezh
Missile designation: P-15M, P-21, P-22 Termit
Designer: Raduga
Lenght: 6.56 m
Diameter: 0.78 m
Span: 2.4 m
Weight: 2,520 kg
Range: 8-80 km
Speed: 1,100 km/h
Propulsion: Solid-propellant rocket booster + dual-thrust liquid-propellant rocket sustainer
Guidance: Inertial + active radar or IR terminal homing
Warhead: 513 kg HE or 15 kT nuclear
Operational: Entered service in 1978
Launch battery equipment: Four 3P51 launch vehicles, four transloader vehicles
Launch Vehicle/Transporter Vehicle
Designation: MAZ-543M
Length: 14.2 m
Width: 2.97 m
Height: 4.05 m
Weight: 40,900 kg
Road Speed: 65 km/h
Road Radius: 635 km
Engine: 385 kW diesel

The development of the Rubezh began in 1970 to supplement the Redut (SSC-1B) with a more compact, shorter-ranged system. The Rubezh uses the same P-15M missile with folding delta wings and a triform rudder and tail as the ship-launched SS-N-2C. The IR terminal seeker has the designation Snegir-M. The cruise altitude of the missile can be set as 25, 50 or 250 meters before launch, and the missile performs a pop-up manouver in the terminal phase. The launch vehicle is based on a MAZ-543M 8x8 wheeled chassis and carries two KT-161 missile tubes, usually with one radar- and one IR-guided missile, and a command shelter with a generator and Garpun radar. The radar is mounted on a 7.3 meters high elevatable mast and has a detection range of 40 to 100 km. Crew consists of 6 men and time into action is about 5 minutes. The missile transporter/loader vehicle is based on a KrAZ-255B 6x6 truck chassis and carries two reload missiles. It may be possible to use a long-range surveillance radar installed on the 40V6 elevatable mast from the S-300P (SA-10B) SAM. A Rubezh brigade consists of three battalions, each with three batteries. The Rubezh system has been exported to Algeria, Bulgaria, Cuba, East Germany, Libya, Rumania, Syria, Yemen and Yugoslavia. The Rubezh-E export variant uses the P-21 or P-22 missile. (info from http://personal.inet.fi/cool/foxfour/sovmis/sovmis-ssc.html)


This post has been edited by tomcat1974 on August 19, 2005 08:59 am

Off topic - i like verry much the Bereg!

Iama