Britain began the development of artillery shells to destroy submarines

Surface ships will soon learn to hit submarines using conventional artillery guns. According to Jane's, BAE Systems is developing a special ammunition designed to destroy submarines.

Specialists from the British company BAE Systems have begun developing a special artillery shell for the 5-inch naval guns (127-mm - approx. BO), capable of hitting submarines. According to available information, this ammunition will consist of two parts: a fired container and a projectile with a main charge.

It is assumed that after firing such a projectile from a conventional weapon, the ammunition flying over an underwater target will fire a sub-caliber projectile with a small charge, which will already go to the water with the help of the tail rudders, where the main charge will fire at a pre-programmed depth. The company does not give other details of the new project.

According to the company, at the moment the project, called Kingfisher, is at the stage of preliminary design and some details may change in the future. However, in BAE Systems it has already been called a budget solution for the destruction of enemy submarines as opposed to more expensive torpedoes and mines.

Kingfisher project presented at the international exhibition DSEI 2019 in London. BAE Systems hoped that in the future the military would pay attention to the development and the company would receive a large military order for the production of these ammunition.

Comments

[ser56]

and what they do not like ordinary diving shells?

[Destiny]

By the fact that they are bespontovye. Practice has shown low efficiency of diving shells. During the Second World War, the main means of destroying submarines was a depth bomb.

[ser56]

Well, how do they stuff a mini torpedo into such a small caliber?

[Vadim237]

Probably the projectile will be equipped with a sub-caliber core - hit by a projectile, a burst of charge in the submarine and a sub-caliber pierces a double, durable body.

[The black]

BAE Systems is developing a special ammunition designed to destroy submarines.

I'm working on the concept of an automated moonshine He came, filled the mash, closed the tank, opened the valve on the gas cylinder, put the cans in the right places for different distillation products, pressed the button and left.

[garri-lin]

My friend you are a terrible trash. Maybe robots will consume the finished product for you? Or wipe the contacts of the computer.? .

[Shurik70]

The main problem with the defeat of the submarine is to detect it.
And the detected one is easily destroyed. Aerial bombs, depth charges, if at shallow depths, then artillery shells. Yes, even just a steel network on its way to drop - and everything, winds on the screws, jam. And it remains only to emerge.
Smart shells are not invented today either.
Most likely the Angles stuffed a homing torpedo into the shell. And the shell is just a means of delivery.

[Dmitry Bolotsky]

Thank you, smiled. And the news painfully draws on the topic "British scientists have found out that the Volga does not flow into the Caspian Sea, but flows into it ..."

[Rwmos]

You can and succeed. And if it is designed by Bredan scientists, the moonshine still will fill its owner’s face, gobble up the whole snack and proudly leave the EU

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Black

Came, flooded the mash,

What kind of "automated" it is ?! Mislead honest people, sir! What is it that turns out? It is also necessary to put the mash separately, and pour it into the device! So it won’t work! Do you have a bread machine or crock-pot in the house? Disassemble it, study the design and go for it! For advice from you liter ...

[vadim dok]

Consult with Medvedev, he drives premium class moonshine!

[ser56]

Quote: Vadim237

Probably the shell will be equipped with a subcaliber core

but nothing that submarine in the water? Which density is 1000 times more air?

[Vadim237]

And what - charge initiation in ammunition with a contact fuse, and even the tungsten core itself, does it somehow interfere?

[BARKAS]

Even how it will hurt if there is no cavitator.

[ser56]

Quote: Vadim237

initiation of charge in a munition with a contact fuse,

about water won't work?

Quote: Vadim237

and the tungsten core itself,

you do not confuse submarines with a tank?

[BARKAS]

I suspect that the submarine at depth is too fast a target for such ammunition.

[Vadim237]

RBU does not work, after all. No, I don’t confuse it with a tank, since the alloy of steel from which the nuclear submarine is made is similar in strength to tank armor in terms of strength.

[K-50]

Quote: Vadim237

Probably the projectile will be equipped with a sub-caliber core - hit by a projectile, a burst of charge in the submarine and a sub-caliber pierces a double, durable body.

Their shells can be equipped with at least devils in a mortar. The only thing that immediately catches your eye is that the shells do not fly underwater. After only fifty meters, well, even a hundred, they completely lose speed, and then a simple fall into the Abyss.
You can find a submarine at such a depth, only submarines rarely rise on it, especially in the presence of forces to counter them.

[Vadim237]

There, the shell is not quite ordinary, most likely there is a second powder charge for high-speed underwater movement.

[Rzzz]

First, it will be quite difficult to get in. The shell is small, it will move rather slowly in the water. You can't put a lot of explosives in it. An explosion of even a fully explosive charge in such a caliber under water is just a weak "bunch". The torpedoes are out, the charges reach half a ton.

[Constructor68]

Destiny

During the Second World War, the main means of destroying submarines was a depth bomb.

Ehspert, you still refer to the Napoleonic wars as a justification for the effectiveness of a particular type of weapon

[Vadim237]

Modern anti-submarine bombs are still those units

[Retvizan 8]

... "it has already been called a budget solution for the destruction of enemy submarines" ...
I would like to offer an even more budget option: "BULLETS for the destruction of submarines."

[Proton]

There is even more budget, the swimmer takes off with a bow and arrow. The shells are worth the money, and the swimmers give a damn, give birth to them.

[Simargl]

Quote: Retvizan 8

I would like to offer an even more budget option: "BULLETS for the destruction of submarines."

Those. to allocate a special team that will sit with fishing rods on board - less budget?

[KVU-NSVD]

With such a caliber, and even a sub-caliber .. and how will it be controlled in water? or will it be unmanageable? and if the boat is at great depths and maneuvers? and if managed, then how? is something acoustic for self-aiming stuffed into such a volume? in short before the tests, there are continuous incomprehensions .. but of course it is interesting to look at the results.

[Undecim]

A cross-sectional model showing the internal components of a Kingfisher shell, including a fuse, ejection charge, and submunition.
Stabilizers are used to provide the submunition with the desired angle of entry. BB range - 3 kilograms.

[KCA]

Imagine hitting a projectile with a warhead of 3kg, for example, in the "Shark", a kilogram of rubber from the skin will rip? Well, or with "Borea", 2 kg

[Chaldon48]

The explosive charge in such a projectile is not large, it will turn out a rather weak depth bomb, it can cause significant damage by exploding directly in the hull of the submarine.

[ser56]

Quote: Chaldon48

bursting directly at the hull of the submarine.

if it is at periscope depth ...

[Chaldon48]

If the submarines are at re-depth to inflict damage, you can start shooting at it with conventional large-caliber shells. So the Japanese tried to stoke back into Russian-Japanese, opening random shooting at the water when they saw a re-scope or it seemed that they saw it.

[Old26]

Quote: Black

BAE Systems is developing a special ammunition designed to destroy submarines.

I'm working on the concept of an automated moonshine He came, filled the mash, closed the tank, opened the valve on the gas cylinder, put the cans in the right places for different distillation products, pressed the button and left.

No, better go buy ready-made, industrial-made

[Pavel57]

Reincarnation of a diving shell.

[voyaka uh]

In my opinion, a completely frivolous undertaking.
You can also try this way! - destroy the torpedo,
attacking ship. Or some small unmanned underwater
apparatus ...
But a submarine? Neither in distance, nor in depth, nor in charge power
will not pull.

[lucul]

In my opinion, a completely frivolous undertaking.
You can also try this way! - destroy the torpedo,
attacking ship. Or some small unmanned underwater
apparatus ...
But a submarine? Neither in distance, nor in depth, nor in charge power
will not pull.

Kghm ......
One of those rare cases when I agree with you)))

[Taoist]

What a chic budget drank ...

[Pavlov Sergey Alexandrovich]

In short, there is an idea

[Pavlov Sergey Alexandrovich]

Why didn’t my whole comment come out? ((