How serious is the 'double' torpedo duo of the Vietnamese Navy?

Which Vietnamese warships are capable of carrying torpedoes?

As of 2019, at least three classes of warships are equipped with torpedoes for anti-ship missions as well as underground combat. One of them is the most modern warship of the Navy Army , the rocket guard Gepard .

However, the class of the most capable torpedo ship of the Vietnam Navy is still the Shershen torpedo boat or is also called the Project 206 . Surprise The Navy also possesses an upgraded variant of Shershen, Turya - Project 206M.

Basically, the number of ships launching the Project 206 is present in the Vietnamese Navy staff according to many data, up to 20 units, of which Turya ships only about 5 units. The torpedo boats of the Project 206 are equipped with OTA-53-206 / 206M torpedo launchers.

The torpedo boat pulls 335 Turya classes under the payroll of Region 3 Navy - Vietnam People's Navy.(Photo: Wikipedia).

Our class of ships capable of carrying the next torpedo is the underground hunting ships Petya II and Petya III - Project 159 . It is quite remarkable that Vietnam owns the Petya variants equipped with various torpedo launching systems including PTA-53-57 bis and PTA-40-159. In which PTA-53-57 bis is only equipped for export Petya ships.

The third warship of the Vietnamese Navy is equipped with the torpedo as mentioned above, which is the guard ships of Gepard 3.9 missiles under Project 11661E . However, only two of our Gepard ships were equipped with torpedoes including Ship 015 - Tran Hung Dao and 016 Quang Trung Ship to enhance the anti-underground combat capability.

Regarding the Gepard torpedo system, they were most likely to be torpedoed by the PTA-53-11661 torpedo system with two bursts of tubes.

Interestingly, Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from new generation vessels like Gepard to "old men " Shershen all use heavy torpedoes of 533mm diameter from Lien. Buckets developed in the early 1960s.

The unexpected truth about the Vietnamese Navy's torpedo warehouse

At the present time the Navy is equipped with at least 4 torpedo lines including 3 types of 533mm torpedoes and a 400mm type including: 53-56AV, SET-40U / UE, SET-53M and TEST-71 . Except for 53-56AV, the remaining torpedo samples can all be used for anti-ship and anti-submarine purposes.

However, among the above torpedoes, the most popular is still 53-56AV , which is one of the improved variants of 53-65 - the 533mm heavy torpedo model developed for the Soviet Navy from the beginning of the year. 1960. Despite the long service period, 53-65 is still a model of anti-ship torpedoes used by many countries' navies around the world.

Petya III submarine hunters of Brigade 171, Military Region 2 Navy shooting exercises with 533mm torpedoes are likely to be 53-56AV.(Photo: Dak Nong Newspaper).

In the Vietnamese Navy 53-56AV payload, equipped on the Shershen, Turya torpedo boats and even the guard ship of Petya underground when it can be completely launched from 533mm torpedo tubes - OTA-53-206 and PTA-53-57 bis equipped on these warships.

The combat weight of 53-56AV torpedoes is 2,100kg, 7.200mm long; carrying warheads weighing 300kg. Its effective range can be up to 22,000m with underwater movement speed of 44 nm / h, 53-65 torpedo models all use sound waves.

If 53-56AV can only specialize in anti-ships, our anti-submarine duty on ships has SET-40U / UE - a 400mm light-weight anti-submarine torpedo manufactured by the Soviet Union.

In fact, SET-40 torpedoes are officially equipped on the Petya submarine hunters that Vietnam is equipping, while the 53-56AV is just an expanded weapon system in the export variant.

Guard ship hunting under Petya II of Brigade 171, Region 2 Navy shooting practice with underground anti-torpedo SET-40UE.(Photo: Navy Report).

Accordingly, the Petya II ships equipped with the SET-40s will be equipped with PTA-40-159 - 400mm torpedo tubes , each launcher is equipped with up to 5 launchers, while on Petya ships They are equipped with PTA-53-57 - 533mm launchers each with only 3 launchers.

This makes it possible to distinguish the difference between Petya hunting submarines of the Vietnamese Navy.

Returning to SET-40 torpedo, it was developed for the Soviet Navy and in the early 1960s until 1968, the upgraded version of SET-40U was born, this is the first generation of Soviet torpedoes. can search for underwater targets through an active sonar system.

In terms of operational capability, SET-40U / UE has a range of only about 8,000m; movement speed 29 knots / h; active range of active probe is in the range of 600 - 800m. The basic torpedo combat weight is 550kg; 4,500mm long and carry warheads weighing 80kg.

Although 53-56AV and SET-40U / UE have different strengths and weaknesses, they are not the most comprehensive torpedo models of the Vietnamese Navy, because this position belongs to the SET torpedo. -53M.

The reason for this is that SET-53M is a 533mm heavy torpedo that possesses both anti-ship and anti-submarine capabilities that can be equipped on many layers of Vietnamese warships from Shershen torpedo boats to shipyards. Gepard missile defense.

The selection of heavy Vietnamese torpedoes such as SET-53M and the launch system PTA-53-11661 equipped Gepard ships rather than the Paket-NK 324 mm torpedo system commonly found on name guard ships Russia's 2,000-ton fire is likely to ensure technical logistics, as we are used to using this weapon.

SET-53 itself was developed for the Soviet Navy from 1958 to 1964 the upgraded version SET-53M was completed with many outstanding tactical features.

The effective range of torpedo SET-53M is about 14,000m; Movement speed up to 29 knots and the range of passive transducers reach 600 m. The basic combat weight of both torpedoes is 1,480kg; 7.800mm long; 100kg warhead.

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