Missiles: SSM: 24 Chelomey SS-N-19 Shipwreck (Granit) (improved SS-N-12 with lower
flight profile); inertial with command update guidance; active radar homing to 20-550 km
(10.8-300 n miles) at 1.6 Mach; warhead 750 kg HE or 500 kT nuclear. Novator Alfa SS-N-27
may be carried in due course.
A/S: Novator SS-N-15 Starfish (Tsakra) fired from 53 cm tubes; inertial flight to 45
km (24.3 n miles); warhead nuclear 200 kT or Type 40 torpedo. Novator SS-N-16 Stallion
fired from 65 cm tubes; inertial flight to 100 km (54 n miles); payload nuclear 200 kT
(Vodopad) or Type 40 torpedo (Veder).
Torpedoes: 4-21 in (533 mm) and 2-26 in (650 mm) tubes. Combination of 65 and 53 cm
torpedoes (see table at front of section). Total of 28 weapons including tube-launched A/S
missiles.
Mines: 32 can be carried.
Countermeasures: ESM: Rim Hat; intercept.
Weapons control: Punch Bowl for third party targeting.
Radars: Surface search: Snoop Pair or Snoop Half; I-band.
Sonars: Shark Gill; hull-mounted; passive/active search and attack; low/medium
frequency. Shark Rib flank array; passive; low frequency. Mouse Roar; hull-mounted; active
attack; high frequency. Pelamida towed array; passive search; very low frequency.
Programmes: There is some doubt whether K 530 will be completed. Name/Number
attribution is still uncertain, and Omsk may have been renamed Petropavlosk Kamchatsky.
Structure: SSM missile tubes are in banks of 12 either side and external to the 8.5 m
diameter pressure hull; they are inclined at 40º with one hatch covering each pair, the
whole resulting in the very large beam. The position of the missile tubes provides a large
gap of some 4 m between the outer and inner hulls. Diving depth, 1,000 ft (300 m) although
2,000 ft (600 m) is claimed. Operational: ELF/VLF communications buoy. All have a tube on
the rudder fin which is used for dispensing a thin line towed sonar array. Pert Spring
SATCOM.
No. K 141, Builder - Severodvinsk Shipyard, Launched May 1994
