Lider-class destroyer

Model of Lider-class destroyer preliminary design on ARMY-2015
Class overview
Name: Lider class
Builders: Severnaya Verf, SevMash, Zaliv Shipyard, Krylov, Nevskoe PKB, Yantar PriBalt(?)
Preceded by:
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 17,500 tons
Length: 200 m (656 ft 2 in)
Beam: 20 m (65 ft 7 in)
Draught: 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in)
Propulsion: nuclear marine propulsion
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Range: unlimited
Armament:
  • Anti-ship and cruise missiles (64 3S14 universal cells):
  • Air defense missiles:
    • S-500 air defense system (56 cells)
    • Redut medium-range air defense system (16 cells)
    • 3 × Pantsir-M SAM/gun systems
  • Artillery:
    • 1 × 1 × A-192M Armat 130-mm naval gun
  • Anti-submarine warfare:
    • 2 × 6 × Paket-NK dual use anti-torpedo/anti-submarine torpedoes
Aviation facilities: Stern hangar
Notes: Hangar for up to 2 medium-lift helicopters

The Lider-class destroyer or Project 23560 (Shkval-class destroyer or Project 23560E for export version) is under consideration for construction for the Russian Navy as a nuclear powered combined guided missile destroyer, large anti-submarine warship and guided missile cruiser.

In May 2017, Russian media reports showed that the Lider-class warship had been dropped from the 2025 State Armament Program. Sources in the military shipbuilding industry claimed financing reductions caused the program to be postponed, but also led to speculation that the entire program was delayed indefinitely.[1][2][3]

Intended roles

"The Lider will be a universal ship, triple-hatted as a destroyer, large ASW ship and guided missile cruiser while being smaller than Project 1144 ships and carrying far more weaponry," according to Valeriy Polovinki, advisor to the director general of the Krylov State Research Center that worked out the destroyer’s preliminary design, as reported in The Defence Talk. "It is meant to replace the Sovremennyy-class destroyers, the main anti-surface warships of the Russian Navy, as well as the Slava-class cruisers and the Udaloy class anti-submarine destroyers."[4]

Capabilities

The Lider-class ships will be nuclear powered and have extensive food storage and stores, to give them an independent cruising capability of 90 days.[4]

They will be about 200 metres (656 ft 2 in) long with a beam of 20 metres (65 ft 7 in), and a maximum speed of 32 knots (59 km/h). The vessels are estimated to displace around 17,500 tons.[4]

A flight deck and hangars will accommodate two Kamov Ka-27 or Ka-32 helicopters.

Weapon systems

The Lider's weapon systems are expected to include:[4][5]

Program

Preliminary project approval was given in 2013. Technical plans are expected to be started in 2017.[6]

Reports vary as to whether the Lider-class is intended to commence building in 2018[4] or more likely 2019 according to former First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Igor Kasatonov.[6]

The ships are likely to be built at the Severnaya Verf Shipyard in Saint Petersburg.[6]

Twelve ships are planned in total for the Northern Fleet and Pacific Fleet; at the very least, a fleet needs one ship for long-range cruising, one for operating near the home shore, one for training, and one for repair.[7]

In June 2017, United Shipbuilding Corporation announced the Russian Defense Ministry had approved the preliminary design of the Lider-class.[8]

Variants

See also

References

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