To save landing vessels: in the Russian Federation began to install the "Thor" SCR on land ships
In Russia, they stated that they significantly increased the protection of their landing ships, setting "autonomous combat modules of anti-aircraft missile systems" Thor-M2KM ", the Russian State Agency of Tars Taers' screwing in the chains to the deck was only seen on the patrol ships of the project 22160 last year. But now it came to the "grouping of the Navy landing forces in the Black Sea. " To note that the installation of "Thor" on a deck is not a trivial task.
The only trouble -free option may be to place a complex on a new large landing ship of the project 11711 with the name "Petro Morgunov", owned by the North Fleet of Russia and was involved in the Black Sea before the full -scale invasion. But in any case, the issue of inspection and missile sectors. Even more difficulties can arise when trying to set a "TOR" on the most common type of large landing ships in the Russian Federation - Project 775.
Free space on the deck of this ship is extremely limited, and to place the SCR, if possible, only in the area of the nose. It is not excluded that the price of the launcher "Grad", - the journalists say. As for the outdated VDC of the project 1171 "Tapir", the placement of SPRs on them is most likely impossible at all without dismantling crane equipment.
But, as they stated in the Defense Express, the most important issue is not technical difficulties, but the reason for which the Russian Federation is trying to strengthen the air defense of its large landing ships. Of course, lowering the fact that traditional air defense on such ships was reduced to anti -aircraft artillery and MSRCs during the USSR and the situation is similar to even a newer project 11711.
"Such additional protection is needed by Russian landing ships only when they are in the sea. limited only by using the winged Storm Shadow/Scalp missiles that can technically affect the ships only in ports. Thor "on the ship itself is objectively more difficult than the same SCR directly on the pier," experts added.
Thus, on the one hand , intention to install on the Torah MPC can be an element of Russian preparation for an attempt to use large landing ships for its main task - planting a landing. This is what in the Coast of Coastal Missile Complexes will require at least an enhancement of protection against anti -ship missiles. On October 24, it became known that Russian invaders in the territory of the Kirovske aerodrome near the temporarily occupied Theodosius in Crimea placed military aviation.