Footage has emerged showing a test launch of a Kalibr cruise missile from a Russian
Navy Project 1155 Udaloy class destroyer failing dangerously.
The video seems to have leaked from the Russian Telegram social media network and was later
posted to YouTube.
The clip shows the weapon, flying uncontrollably soon after launch.
It finally crashes into the sea close to the Marshal Shaposhnikov warship from which it
was launched.
Viewers may note that the weapon has been recently inducted into the warship.
This was done after the installation of the new 16 cells 3S14 Vertical Launch System which
was part of a major refit operation. While the exact date of the footage is unknown,
the warship is thought to have returned to sea for post-refit trials last July.
In this video Defense Updates analyzes how Russian Marshal Shaposhnikov warship almost
got hit by its own Kalibr cruise missile?
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The Udaloy class, Russian designations Project 1155 Frigate and Project 11551 Frigate-M , are
series of anti-submarine guided-missile destroyers built for the Soviet Navy, seven of which
are currently in service with the Russian Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1980
and 1991, while the thirteenth ship built to a modified design, known as Udaloy II class,
followed in 1999. They complement the Sovremennyy-class destroyers in anti-aircraft and anti-surface
warfare operations. The codename Udaloy means daring or bold.
The vessels of this class have a length of 163 m or 535 ft and displacement of around
7570 tons when fully loaded.
Marshal Shaposhnikov is the 6th warship of this class and was originally completed in
1984.
The warship has gone through a four-year modernization in Vladivostok that, in addition to the vertical
launch system, added new guns and Uran subsonic anti-ship missiles.
As per reports, more than 20% of the superstructure was also dismantled and rebuilt.
New types of equipment include communication systems, more powerful sonar.
The warship is now configured like a multi-role platform.
The newly added VLS can accommodate Kalibr cruise missiles, Oniks supersonic anti-ship
cruise missiles and potentially the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile.
Kalibr missile is designed by the Novator Design Bureau.
The missile is a modular system with five versions: two anti-shipping types, one for
land attack and two anti-submarine types. The missile is designed to share common parts
between the surface and submarine-launched variants but each missile consists of different
components, for example, the booster
As per a report, the missile variant in question is a 3M14T Kalibr-NK.
The type is equivalent to the American Tomahawk cruise missile in many parameters such as
range, warhead, and propulsion. It has a 2500 km or 1554 miles range, a 450
kg or 1000 pound high-explosive warhead and a turbofan engine. Similar to Tomahawk, it
has a speed of Mach 0.8.
It is to be noted that the same variant was used by the Russian Navy to attack land targets
during the civil war in Syria.
As per Russian military insiders, Russia plans to deploy KALIBR on all new design construction
nuclear and non-nuclear submarines, corvettes, frigates, and larger surface ships.
The idea is to provide even smaller platforms such as corvettes, with significant offensive
capability
The good aspect is the missile didn't hit Marshal Shaposhnikov.
This is an escape since the incident could have potentially gone very wrong.
In Sep last year, Su-35S of Russian Aerospace Forces gunned down a Su-30 during a close-air-combat
drill. The twin-seat Su-30 is said to have come down
in a forest within northwest Russia’s Tver region.
Since then details of an alleged ‘friendly fire’ have emerged which suggested that
the twin-seat Su-30 had in fact been hit by cannon fire from the single-seat Su-35S.
Russia is not the only country to experience these mishaps.
In May last year, reports emerged that 19 sailors were killed and 15 others were injured
when an Iranian warship was accidentally hit by a missile.
The statement published on the Iranian army’s website stated, “During an exercise on Sunday
afternoon conducted by a number of naval vessels in the waters of Jask and Chabahar, the light
support vessel Konarak had an accident”
Iranian media reported that the support ship Konarak was hit by a new anti-ship missile
being tested by the frigate Jamaran during exercise.
The incident took place near the Strait of Hormuz.
While misfires and mishaps are not uncommon, Russia seems to be particularly prone to these.
The Russian military has been encountering lots of accidents which cannot be just a coincidence.
In Sep last year, high winds from Typhoon Maysak caused a floating dry dock to break
free. After this it drifted into a number of warships
and submarines belonging to the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet, causing massive damage.
Even the flagship of the Russian Navy - Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier has suffered from
several incidents and is out of service. In 2019, an official state of mourning was
declared in the Russian city of Sarov. This comes after 5 elite Russian scientists
were killed in an accident. As per Rosatom, the explosion occurred while
the engineers were testing a "nuclear isotope power source" for a rocket engine.
It is no secret that President Putin’s aim's to resurrect the Russian military but the
dependability of the Russian weapons needs to be looked into.