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A project 22160 patrol ship of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet has been spotted carrying a land-based Tor air-defense system.
On June 7, Russian sources shared a photo showing the patrol ship sailing off to a mission with the Tor system strapped to its flight deck.
Some experts suggested that the ship is transporting the air-defense system to Snake island. However, others speculated that the system was installed to offer additional protection to the ship against aircraft, helicopters, drones and anti-ship missiles. Typically, project 22160 patrol ships are armed only with man portable air defense systems. Due to this it makes sense to install a more capable land-based system like the Tor to secure additional protection against aerial threats.
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Installing land-bases air-defense systems on ships is not a new concept. The Israeli Navy installed Iron Dome anti-rocket systems on some of its Sa’ar 5 corvettes, the Egyptian Navy installed AN/TWQ-1 Avenger air-defense systems on the flight decks of its two Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps installed a 3rd Khordad surface-to-air missile system on the IRIS Shahid Roudaki warship and even the US Navy placed LMADIS anti-drone systems on Wasp class amphibious assault ships.
In fact, the Russian Navy tested a self-contained version of the Tor air-defense system, dubbed the Tor-M2KM, on a Project 11356 frigate in 2016.
The Tor system was designed to destroy aircraft, helicopters, drones, missiles, and other precision guided weapons, flying at medium, low and very low altitudes in all weather.
The older versions of the air-defense system are armed with the 9M331 missile which has a range of ten kilometers and a flight ceiling of six kilometers. However, the newer versions of the system can be armed with the 9M338 missile, which has a range of 16 kilometers and a flight ceiling of ten kilometers. While the system can be loaded with only eight 9M331 missiles, it can carry double the number of the more compact 9M338.
The Russian Navy appears to be preparing for an escalation in the Black Sea that could possibly involve a new attack on Snake Island or missile strikes on Russia ships by the Ukrainian Navy. It’s worth noting that Kiev is currently preparing to receive costal defense systems armed with US-made Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark.
Very good news if its going to Snake Island as that is a key strategic place for controlling the surrounding area as has been admitted by the west.
It’s like a magnet for missiles. Same as Moskva.
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Well any Ukrainian chopper pilots will be having a touch of your name in their underpants when they see it mo chara
Were neptune missiles involved with sinking a Russian ship? Hoping Russian ships stay safe. Those mistral ships were made for Russia by France but the US would not allow them to be sent. Egypt got them in the end, with a big discount.
Saudi Arabia gave money to Egypt. But this is not the end of the story. Egypt bought Ka-52K for their “Mistrals” and one of crimean shipyards is building 2 similar ships for rus.navy.
I can’t wait for the failed zombie lgbt state of jewmerica to engage with Russia and get absolutely destroyed. Jewmerica got owned in Afghanistan by some dudes with AK-47’s and RPG’s. They will get annihilated by Russia.
I’m a white American, and if Russia nukes some our cities I know we have it coming. Jewmerica really is a curse to the world.
Their are two Americas. There is the American government that is owned and controlled by billionaire war mongers and their stooges. Then, there is the American people who are normal human beings except for the majority who have been brainwashed into believing that their government is kind and just and not the evil lunatics that they are.
Exactly
Are you actually telling me that Russian ships have no A/A systems of their own? What genius decided to exclude those?
These are corvette attack boats, they were designed for sea based mobile offensive not for air defense purposes.
is this what would be used to take out the small drones that are giving away soldiers positions and dropping grenades ? i would think a missile would be too expensive to take out small drones, maybe a guided machine gun like they have on ships would be more cost efficient
I would guess anti ship missles. I think they bet too much on the pantsir because they do have a ship based version and tor was supposed to supplement this because it’s one of the only cwis that can operate while moving but then in Syria tor actually outperformed pantsir so they shifted focus. The pantsir idea is great though, would be interesting to see what the issues were and if the system as a whole has a limited potential or are they going to improve on what they learned.
Navios russos estão roubando da Ucrânia: cereais , ferro, maquinas agrícolas.
Good move to catch those low flying Neptune missiles supposedly being sent to Ukraine….
It’s domestic production, but seems like hohols didn’t produced any missiles apart test party, that’s why they are not claiming their victory. My personal opinion is the ship has sunk after collision with a mine or failure of old S-300 missile, which lead to blast, and bad weather conditions that not allowed to do rescue operation properly.
Ukraine’s “navy” needs to be annihilated and Odessa must be a priority for Russia. I hope that once they secure Donbass, Russia will attack Odessa massively. Destroy Ukraine if it doesn’t surrender.
This is a ship with “open deck” concept. You can install SAM, anti-ship missiles in container or something else. Small patrol ice-breakers as “Ivan Papanin” use this concept too.
Hope these patrol boats are not spotted by neptunes and bayraktars.