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Babochka Soviet Hydrofoil
Scale in 1/50, overall length 1000 mm, equal to 39.3 inches.
Babochka Soviet Hydrofoil
Babochka Soviet Hydrofoil
Overall length 50 m, moulded breadth 9.9 m, Depth hull 5.9 m, Placement 475 t, Maximum speed 60 knots.
It has deeply submerged foils (aft) and auto-stabilization system with respect to roll and trim. Its maximum speed is 60 knots. In a Sea State of 4 to 5, speed is 52 to 53 knots. It was built by Zelenodolsk shipyard in 1977.
The Aleksandr Kuhanovich, classified by NATO as BABOCHKA
(Butterfly) at 465 tons, with three Soviet NK-12MV marinized aircraft
gas turbine engines rated at 18,000 hp each, and an impressive array of
armaments is indeed the world's largest and most powerful operational
hydrofoil "warship". Like SARANCHA it has surface piercing foils
forward, fully-submerged foils aft. It is not certain how the propeller
drive train is configured with three foilborne engines, but it may be
safe to say that the aft foil/strut/propulsion arrangement is similar
to and derived from SARANCHA except that there are three aft struts rather
than only two. Although relatively little is known about the internal
design details of Aleksandr Kuhanovich, some armament is evident and impressive
for a 465 ton ship. This consists of two six-barrelled 30 mm Gatling-action
guns for anti-aircraft defense, and eight 40 cm torpedoes in two quadruple
mounts immediately ahead of the superstructure between the deckhouse and
the forward 30 mm mount. In addition there are undoubtedly missiles, the
nature of which is not widely known in the West.
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