Anti-ship complexes – effective weapons of coastal units and fleet ships

• Igor Zvershkhovskyi

  State Enterprise «State Kyiv Design Bureau “Luch”»

• Vadim Kanischev

  Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Andrey Katsan

  Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Oksana Kuchynska

  Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Oleksii Kozachenko

  Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

According to the results of the analysis of the trend in the development of naval missile weapons, it is shown that in the coming decades against ship cruise missiles will remain the main combat force of coastal units and naval ships. However, the fleets of the world’s leading countries are gradually losing their «monopoly», so the militarypolitical leadership of developed countries have to think about how to maintain an advantage in this area. Currently, development is underway against ship missiles, primarily in the direction of further increasing their range and reducing radar visibility. At the same time, the developers are trying to follow the path of maximum unifi cation of the created missile technology, so that on the basis of one sample it is possible to create modifications to solve various problems. An example of such an approach was the Russian missile system «Caliber» («CLUB»). There are two main platforms: «Caliber-NK», «Caliber-PC». These complexes have the following fire means: anti-ship missile, antisubmarine missiles, cruise missiles to hit ground targets. In the anti-ship missile complex «Caliber» is implemented one interesting technical solution: all the way the rocket passes at low altitude and callspeed, and when approaching the target accelerates sharply. promising anti-ship naval missile systems. There is a tendency to adapt the armaments of the US Navy to the tasks that are now most often facing them. And this is by no means the crushing of the fleets of technologically advanced countries. Recently, the United States has been at war with much weaker and technologically backward countries, whose fleet consists mainly of small ships (the so-called «mosquito fleet»).
The article shows that improvements against ship-based missiles are likely to be made by reducing radar visibility, improving the efficiency of rocket engines, increasing control flexibility and «intelligence», and expanding the range of missiles.

1. Igor Zvershkhovskyi, State Enterprise «State Kyiv Design Bureau “Luch”»

   Candidate of Technical Sciences
   Chief of the complex design-engineering department of the State Enterprise «State Kyiv Design Bureau “Luch”»,
   Kyiv, Ukraine

2. Vadim Kanischev, Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

   Chief of the scientifi c research department of developing naval armament and technique of the Navy  Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Central Scientifi c Research Institute of Armament and Military  Equipment of Armed Forces of Ukraine,
   Kyiv, Ukraine

3. Andrey Katsan, Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

   Senior Research Associate of Central Scientifi c Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of Armed Forces of Ukraine,
   Kyiv, Ukraine

4. Oksana Kuchynska, Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

   Chief of scientifi c-information department of Central Scientifi c Research Institute of Armament and  Military Equipment of Armed Forces of Ukraine,
   Kyiv, Ukraine

5. Oleksii Kozachenko, Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

   Scientifi c research offi cer of Central Scientifi c Research Institute of Armaments and Military Equipment  of Armed Forces of Ukraine,
   Kyiv, Ukraine

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