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Sep 11, 2016

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Pantsir-M
  • will enter service with the Russian Navy in 2017
  • is in serial production now
(I repeat
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are to get it)
now my lunch break is over
LOL! РИА yesterday said
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the Pantsir-M entered [now] the serial production

I noticed at first in
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where, in the context of Pantsir-M, Hermes-K "perspective" missile, with "expected" range of 100 km, is mentioned (apparently for the first time) ... welcome to
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from russianplanes.net (
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) where this stunning picture became Photo Of [this] Week; in the discussion below it, the question was what had been the previous pair, the answer: yet another pair of a Blackjack and a Flanker
 
some time ago May 1, 2016
more than one year ago
Mar 16, 2015

... and I've been trying to follow how it's going with replacing warships engines (banned Western for previously unavailable Russian engines)
(found out even about "the Chinese connection": https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-325#post-393633)
and hoping some data, not just talking, will become available; very recently
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an installation began at Project 21385 lead ship, the Gremyashchy, of diesels from
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but no, I haven't seen any data yet (just lauding) except what was in TV news, which wasn't much :)
EDIT
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from what I figured, there're two shafts and four recently modified 16Д49 engines (23+ thousand hp in total); don't know if and how they can run independently
and now I read
(in
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this:
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also contains the domestic 16Д49 (together with the domestic reductors and the domestic control system, the whole unit is: ДРРА6000; 6k hp) and was recently delivered from its manufacturer
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to the shipyard
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to eventually propel the Dmitri Ragatchyoff, the second
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(not noticed the 'Propulsion: CODAG' entry is obviously wrong)

(the first, the Vasily Bykov, has obtained MAN engines from Germany)

EDIT now in short: it appears Russians were able to substitute foreign diesels for warships of up to about 2k displacement
 
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