by DrPR » Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:36 pm
Here are some photos, but not much help.
I have collected a lot of pictures of the Skavas from the Internet. I think the ship has very nice lines and I find it interesting how the Russian/Soviet ships are designed for much colder operating conditions that our ships.
One thing that really interested me was the Bazalt (Sandbox) missile launcher tubes on the forward part of the ship. I wonder if there is any armor on those things? The cruiser I was on had 45 ramjet Talos missiles and solid propellant boosters on the main deck, but inside a missile house with 1.5 inch thick armor plating around them. Still, it wouldn't take a very large cannon round to punch through that and set off 180,000 pounds of class B explosives (boosters), 13,500 pounds of class A explosives and about 3,600 gallons of JP-4 fuel. I was stationed in the missile house during General Quarters and that thought crossed my mind every now and then.
The Slavas had a lot of explosives and fuel sitting out there just waiting for someone to take a shot at them. I suspect that is what sank the Moskva - a Ukranian missile hitting one of the Bazalts. There is a low resolution photo of the ship before it sank showing the side of the forward superstructure blackened right where the Bazalts were.
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Here are some photos, but not much help.
I have collected a lot of pictures of the Skavas from the Internet. I think the ship has very nice lines and I find it interesting how the Russian/Soviet ships are designed for much colder operating conditions that our ships.
One thing that really interested me was the Bazalt (Sandbox) missile launcher tubes on the forward part of the ship. I wonder if there is any armor on those things? The cruiser I was on had 45 ramjet Talos missiles and solid propellant boosters on the main deck, but inside a missile house with 1.5 inch thick armor plating around them. Still, it wouldn't take a very large cannon round to punch through that and set off 180,000 pounds of class B explosives (boosters), 13,500 pounds of class A explosives and about 3,600 gallons of JP-4 fuel. I was stationed in the missile house during General Quarters and that thought crossed my mind every now and then.
The Slavas had a lot of explosives and fuel sitting out there just waiting for someone to take a shot at them. I suspect that is what sank the Moskva - a Ukranian missile hitting one of the Bazalts. There is a low resolution photo of the ship before it sank showing the side of the forward superstructure blackened right where the Bazalts were.