Vietnam's missile frigate is stronger than Russia introduced?

Russia has displayed a model of the upgraded Gepard 3.9 missile frigate, and their target customer is Vietnam.

Currently, the Vietnam People's Navy has received the first Gepard 3.9 missile frigate of the second pair (the third) and the remaining one is expected to arrive at Cam Ranh port in January 2018.

After receiving two pairs of Gepard 3.9, information from Russia said that Vietnam could sign a contract to build another pair of frigates with much stronger weapon configuration.

As a "promotional" move, Russia recently officially introduced the model of the upgraded Gepard 3.9 ship.

The upgraded Gepard 3.9 missile frigate model has just been introduced by Russia.

Looking at the model, it is easy to see that this Gepard has very powerful anti-ship, anti-air and anti-submarine firepower.

In front of the ship is a UKSK multi-purpose launcher, integrating 8 3M-54E Klub-N supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles with a range of 220 km, maximum speed of Mach 2.9, carrying a 200 kg warhead.

In the middle are 16 vertical launchers of 9M317ME missiles of the Shtil-1 complex with a range of 50 km. In addition to its air defense function, it can also take on the role of a short-range anti-ship missile by switching its function to attack sea-based targets.

In addition, the ship is also equipped with four 533 mm heavy torpedo tubes, one AK-176MA naval gun and two AK-630M super-fast anti-aircraft guns.

9M96E (short) and 9M96E2 (long) interceptor missiles of the Redut shipborne air defense system.

Although the power of this Gepard has surpassed the first two pairs, even surpassing many other 4,000-ton warships, it still has the potential to become stronger.

The ship carried the best anti-ship missiles of Russia at the present time but its air defense missiles were relatively outdated. The Russian Navy now no longer trusts the Shtil-1 system and they turned to choose Redut using 9M96E and 9M96E2 ammunition.

The 9M96E medium-range missile has a range of 1 - 40 km; target destruction altitude of 0.005 - 20 km; weight of 333 kg; carries a 24 kg warhead. The 9M96E2 is an extended version, its range is between 1 - 120 km; target destruction altitude of 0.005 - 30 km; weight of 420 kg and the warhead is still 24 kg like the 9M96E.

Thanks to the active radar guidance mechanism, the probability of hitting a stealth target with a single bullet with a low radar reflection area and high maneuverability of the 9M96E and 9M96E2 missiles is up to 90%. In addition, the function of attacking surface targets of the two types of bullets above is still intact.

In addition, the compact size allows the number of anti-aircraft missiles to be increased to 24. Using 2 different types of interception missiles, the warship can also be customized for each different target to ensure economy.

Obviously, if equipped with the Redut system instead of the Shtil-1, the Gepard 3.9's air defense capability will be much higher than the configuration introduced above.

According to Baodatviet