The Vietnamese Navy's Pohang 20 Guard Ship is on Duty with Kh-35 Missiles

31 Januari 2020

Pohang 20 and other warshps of VPN (all photos : VietDefense)

After testing with Kh-35 missile, the Pohang 20-class guard ship was in the combat squad.

In early November 2019, the first image of a 20-class Pohang-class submarine hunting guard ship, which was supported by the Korean side to the Vietnamese Navy, was integrated with KT-184 launchers of anti-ship cruise missiles Kh-35 Uran-E.

Thus, from a battleship specializing in underground hunting, firepower mainly relied on artillery and torpedoes, Ship 20 has "transformed" into a true versatile protection guard.

However, there were many opinions that the ship only ran sea tests to check the balance after attaching anti-ship missiles and new weapons not yet integrated into the ship's combat management system, by not seeing the appearance of guided radar.

However, there are other opinions that it is not necessary to add the Garpun Bal fire control radar to the roof of the commanding cabine, but Ship 20 is still capable of deploying Kh-35 Uran-E anti-ship missiles in a way, exactly.

Specifically, in the case of firing missiles at a distance not too far, the ship can get target parameters via shore radar stations, reconnaissance aircraft, or even from other warships located in the border.

After identifying the target, the ship will load the coordinates into the missile and launch, the inertial navigation will send the bullets flying to the intended area and then use the active probe to lock the object to destroy.

The fact also shows that even in the Navy, there is a BPS-500 guard ship which is not integrated with Garpun Bal fire control radar, it only uses Pozitiv-E reconnaissance radar.

Most recently in the "New Year's Story" reporter broadcast on Channel VTV8, Ship 20 was seen as part of a naval task force, showing the process of integrating anti-ship missiles was completed and the ship ready to do the task.

In addition to anti-ship missiles, the other detail of interest is the 324 mm light submarine-hunting torpedo tubes that remain, indicating that we still use this weapon instead of changing to the 400 mm type as the previous predictions.

(KienThuc)