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Russian Navy to start receiving navalized Pantsir-M Air Defense Missile/Gun System next year

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Russian Navy to start receiving navalized Pantsir-M Air Defense Missile/Gun System next year
 
The Project 11442M (NATO reporting name: Kirov-class) Admiral Nakhimov nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser will be the first of the Russian Navy’s combatants to receive a navalized version of the Pantsir anti-air missile/gun system, Dmitry Konoplyov, executive director of the Instrument Design Bureau (KBP, a subsidiary of the High-Precision Systems), has told TASS.
     
At IMDS 2015 maritime defense exhibition currently held in St Petersburg, KBP Instrument Design Bureau (based in Tula, Russia) unveiled a naval variant of its famous Pantsir-S1 Air Defense System (????
     
At IMDS 2015 maritime defense exhibition currently held in St Petersburg, KBP Instrument Design Bureau (based in Tula, Russia) unveiled a naval variant of its famous Pantsir-S1 Air Defense System (????
Pantsir-M Project as showcased by KBP during IMDS 2015 maritime defense exhibition in St Petersburg. Image via BMPD/Michael Zherdev
     
"It [the system] will start fielding [with the Navy] next year. The Admiral Nakhimov is the first warship earmarked for it," he said, adding that the cruiser would be equipped with six Pantsir-M systems.

Previously, KBP’s naval air defense system chief designer, Alexander Zhukov, told TASS that the Pantsir-M developed for the Russian Navy had entered production.

The Pantsir’s navalized variant can use the surface-to-air missiles organic to the land-based Pantsir-S1 baseline model and the future Germes-K missile that can be guided by means of an unmanned aerial vehicle. The Pantsir-M is to replace the Kortik AD system in due course. -

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Navy Recognition Comments:
The Pantsir-M is based on the land based Pantsir-S1, but has a different artillery system- as can be seen on the above pictures, including two GSh-6-30K / AO-18KD 30mm six-barrel guns as found on the Kasthtan CIWS. Pantsir-M also comes with an additional radar system, separate from the one fitted ontop of the turret itself.

The land based Pantsir-S1, produced by Russia's KBP is a gun-missile system combining a wheeled vehicle mounting a fire-control radar and electro-optical sensor, two 30-mm cannons and up to 12 57E6 radio-command guided short-range missiles, and is designed to take on a variety of targets flying at low altitudes. Link to Pantsir-S1 technical datasheet