Why in bloody hell do you need the sonar signature of a giant floating ship.
By the way, why is this ship considered stealthy? Isn't the geometrical sides pretty much standard on most destroyers?
The outward flare and tumblehome hull is apparently designed to reduce radar crosssection. Apart from that, the ship uses
certain advanced stealth technologies, that nobody really is privy to. Perhaps SMA alloys- and I'm speculating here- on body parts, given Russia's 25-year experience with nearly-equiatomic NiTi alloys. In addition, the four gas turbines, which develop a total of 56,000 h.p., are mounted on isolated cradles so as to minimize contact with the hull and reduce vibrations and wake and sound/acoustic signatures. Other than that, there's nothing else really I can add. Perhaps one of the technokrats or military pros can provide some information.
Also, do you guys know what missiles will this ship be armed with along with their ranges?
3M-54E Klub anti-ship system with a vertical missile launcher;
RBU-6000 jet bomb launcher; the
Shtil-1 multi-channel medium-range SAM with its 3S-90 missile launcher, armed with the
9M317 (SA-N-12 'Buk') missile; the
Kashtan anti-aircraft missile and artillery system (two on the news ones; each of which consist of two GSh-30k 30mm Gatling guns and and two
SA-N-11 SAM clusters); a
Puma-Universal artillery system equipped with the
A-1903; and the RPK-8 12 barreled
RBU-6000 ASW rocket launcher for the 212mm 90R RGB-60 depth charges. For the three Project 1135.6 FFGs (that is, these) and for the follow-on Project 17 FFG, the UVLM system will also be installed. The UVLM module is built by Larsen & Toubro for the BrahMos supersonic MRCM, this also being the module for the three upgraded Kashin 2-class DDGs and the three Project 15A DDG's.
Ranges and engagement altitudes, etc. can be got from the links.
