Great update Alex! Very minor minor nitpick: shouldn't the heli be hovering in the air on your drawing? I thought the hangar had been filled in with the Yakhont missiles. Or is it still working?
Crap! yes you are rigth! Sould be removed!
Thanks a lot Tim!!
From the pictures shown of the test firing the hangers are still active and still being used
in addition they have also remove the 2 fire control radars that are mount below and on both sides of the enclosed LW-02/3 Mast and appear empty. I wonder if it was done to allow space to relocate the Mistral Simbad SAM system though it doesnt appear to be fitted in that location and in my view is a ideal spot to remount them to.
As for KRI Karel Satsuitubun (356) the compartments that are fitted on top of the hangers are actually Missile storage Magazines for storing reload rounds for the 2xMistral Simbad SAM fitted where Seacat was once used and not for the 4x Yankhot VL SSM as the next picture shows. They also had this arrangement fitted to most of the class that was retrofitted with mistral even before the Indonesians Purchased the Yankhot SSM off the Russians.
KRI Karel Satsuitubun (356)
KRI Karel Satsuitubun (356)
KRI Abdul Halim Perdanakusuma (355)- I apologies that the pic is small but you can see on back carefully on top of the hanger that its also refitted with the same configuration
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