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The Russian Northern Fleet’s nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser Pyotr Veliky and Slava-class cruiser Marshal Ustinov supported by Tu-22M3 strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a missile strike supposed enemy naval targets during drills in the Barents Sea. The warships employed Granit and Vulcan anti-ship missiles.
The P-700 Granit is a beast.
Yeah, I have always wandered whey they call it “Shipwreck”… till I saw it in action…
The P-700 is armed weights 7000 kg and is armed with a 750 kk HE warhead. In war time the P-700 can be armed with a 500 kt thermonuclear warhead. 1 missile can destroy a fleet
as far as I know they were built to destroy air- carriers, not a whole fleet….But I suppose you are right that they can destroy even whole a fleet with little bit of luck.
You are right the missile is designed to destroy a carrier with 1 hit. But with a nuclear warhead I am sure one missile can destroy more than a ship. The missiles are very heavy and only big ships can carry them. Only a few ships which are armed with P-700 granit are in active service in the russian navy: 1 orlan class heavy cruiser (20 missiles) 5 Antey class submarines (24 missiles each)
Antey’s are switching to Kalibr’s (Zircon’s ) aren’t they? Peter the Great soon also.
They are phasing out P-700 to simplify weapons arsenal and maintenance costs and make room for new generations of precise and even faster missiles ( through new launchers ).
Thermonuclear warheads are measured only in mg Megatons, not kt. Thousand killotons makes a megaton. So no 500 Megaton. Biggest was Tsar bomb with 50 Megatons.
Shoot it on China, thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPIBdoZQifw
So will they make it an aircraft carrier?
The narration says it is a multi purpose vehicle that will patrol NSR, Black and Caspian Seas, participate in SAR missions and fire unspecified missiles. (I read that as big missiles… Maybe 3M51 P-900A Alpha!)