Nowadays, the new warships of all countries will be equipped with vertical launch systems, and the quantity and quality of vertical hair have become one of the important indicators to measure whether the model is advanced, and now, except for some special circumstances, the navies of various countries will try to strengthen the number of their warships to directly improve the combat effectiveness of the class of ships.
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So, what are the benefits of a vertical launch system (VLS) that is standard on modern battleships that has made so many countries flock to it? Mainly because of its compatibility and launch efficiency, the vertical launch system can launch a variety of air-to-air, anti-ship, anti-submarine, land attack missiles and do not need to set up a separate launcher as in the past, which not only greatly saves the hull space, but also simplifies the hull appearance so that the ship has better concealment and improves the survivability.
In addition, the launch efficiency of the vertical launch system is very high, even the Russian-style revolver launch system (launching a revolver inside the wheel will turn around, the same principle as the revolver Qiang) the launch speed is far beyond the original arm system, so that the response time of the ship is greatly shortened.
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So since the vertical hair system is so easy to use, the question is, looking at the world today, which warship has a large number of vertical launch systems?
Speaking of this question, the scattered readers and friends may immediately think of the main force of the Russian Navy, the world's only remaining nuclear-powered large cruiser - the Type 1144 Kirov-class cruiser. Although this cruiser has been in service for many years, it is still difficult for many people to be reconciled, because she is too in line with the romantic temperament of men.
Kirov-class cruiser
Take the only Russian Navy's only active state of service Peter the Great cruiser, the class of ships is huge, the shape of the mighty, Western countries even call it a battlecruiser, the ship not only has a handsome and heroic posture, but also up to more than 26,000 tons of amazing displacement, but also claims to be able to carry more than 500 missiles. In addition to the "arsenal ship" of the United States that stays in the PPT stage, there is rarely a type of main battleship in the world that can match it.
A arsenal ship with 832 vertical launch units
However, although peter the great can carry five hundred missiles of various types is actually a slight exaggeration, but its ship's vertical launch system is indeed quite a lot, there are a total of three incompatible vertical hair systems, which seems to be very strong, in fact, it is also a helpless move, because the Soviet period of electronics industry is relatively backward, so the compatibility of equipment has always been a problem.
First of all, let's look at the bow of the Peter the Great, and everyone's initial reaction must be that this bow is really long. In fact, the slender bow of the Peter the Great is to place more hair hanging systems, and its bow is stacked with a variety of types of hair systems, which can be said to be a ship's missile warehouse.
The slender bow of the Kirov class
According to statistics, its bow has a total of 20 units of powerful P700 "Granite" heavy supersonic anti-ship missile vertical launch system, 12 groups of 8 combined equipment a total of 96 units of S300 air defense missile vertical launch system, (the model of vertical launch on the use of revolver system, eight units share a launch port), although the launch of the "Granite" missile is tilted 60 degrees for launch, not vertical launch, but we also classify it as the ranks of "vertical hair".
The RifM ship-to-air missile system is the Sea S300
It can be seen that the bow of the Peter the Great has a total of 116 units of hair, which does not seem to be a lot.
However, unlike the previous three Kirov-class ships, peter the great has undergone many modifications, and on both sides of its stern helicopter deck, there are 4 groups (eight units in each group) of "dagger" short-range ship-to-air missiles ("Doyle" naval type) "revolver" vertical hair, so that Peter the Great has a total of 180 vertical hairs, which is already a considerable number.
However, in some cases, there will be 8 sets of "dagger systems" installed in front of the bow of the Peter the Great, which we will not count here. Putting aside the above, Peter the Great also has 6 "Kashtan" shell gun integrated close defense systems, a total of 144 9M311 series short-range air defense missiles, plus 10 533 mm torpedo tubes, a total of ten RP-6M anti-submarine missiles, so in fact, Peter the Great missile carrying about 400 or so. It can be seen that "carrying five hundred missiles" is only a so-called number.
"Kashtan" shell and gun integrated close defense system
The most famous claim in history is probably Cao Cao's 800,000 troops
So, with 180 of Peter the Great's hanging hairs, is she the most drooping ship in the world? In fact, it is not, but the most popular number of ships in the world is not the famous US Navy, or the Russian Navy, but not an escort or a cruiser (of course, it will not be glorious), but an aircraft carrier, that is, the Russian Navy's only remaining aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov.
Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was actually positioned as a so-called "aircraft cruiser" in the Soviet era, which is inseparable from the naval operational theory of missile supremacy in the Soviet period, so in addition to the normal take-off and landing function of the aircraft carrier, the Kuznetsov also has a very powerful single-ship combat capability, which is much more powerful than the general escort!
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It is reported that the Kuznetsov has installed a total of 24 groups of "dagger" short-range ship-to-air missiles, each group of 8, a total of 192, and all of them have been completed and are not reserved, in addition to its ski-jump take-off deck behind 20 "granite", a total of 212 vertical hair, ranking first in the world. This is also where kuznetsov, who was far away in Ukraine at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, was able to travel thousands of kilometers around Europe alone to reach the russian northern fleet station without the need for escort ships - her own firepower is enough to escort herself!
The moment of launch of the position of the P700 missile
Aft anti-aircraft missile launcher
In World War II, the Japanese Navy developed an air battleship with both aircraft carrier and battleship functions, which is the same as the Soviet aircraft cruiser's frontal thinking
If you continue to go down, the next line is still not the U.S. Navy, but the South Korean Navy's Sejong Dawang-class destroyers, with a displacement of more than 12,000 tons, larger than its old rivals the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Kongo, Atago, KDX-III displacement, and even more than the American Burke class, which carries 80 units of American MK41 vertical hair and 48 units of homemade K-VLS vertical hair (used to launch "Red Shark" anti-submarine missiles and Xuanwu 3 cruise missiles), a total of 128. However, the South Korean Navy's move did not effectively enhance its combat effectiveness, but only a way to make its own hair on the ship to pursue psychological pride, in fact, King Sejong's combat strength was not proportional to its huge displacement, and it was actually inferior to Japan's Kongo class.
Sejong King-class destroyer
And the "Sejong King" single ship has so many vertical hair, but also because south Korea's national strength is limited, so the number of such warships is too small, the first ship has been in service for so many years, so it can only blindly increase the density of single ship firepower, and the 2 batches of KDX-III, which just started not long ago, reduced the number of vertical hair to 88 units. This is actually a more reasonable approach.
King Kong Grade
The U.S. Navy's Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser (122-unit MK41, 61 units at the front and rear, because 3 units are missile loaders). It can only rank fourth, but its combat strength can be ranked in the top three if it is properly ranked, not to mention that the number of its more than twenty ships in service far exceeds the rest of the warships on the list.
"Ticonderoga" class
From this point of view, the Type 055 destroyer with 112 units of large universal vertical hair can only be regarded as the fifth in the number of vertical hair, but because the 055 model entered service late and the technical level is more advanced, it is said that if you want to assess the degree of versatility and use such technology as "1 pit and 4 bombs" in the future, it will be stable and at the forefront of the world. And you can break your wrist with the Ticonderoga class.
Type 055 destroyer