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CV60 -> RE: Online Database Viewer (2/6/2014 10:51:50 AM)
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I'm always looking for photos of any weapons, facilities, ships and aircraft. I try to pull everything I see posted, and give the posters credit for images they send (the image credits are in a .txt file included with the download).
Myself and a small team of folks have also been posting the "System Descriptions" that you occasionally see available for download. I believe Baloogan has used some of these in the Wiki descriptions. We started this project to give the systems accurate, authoritative decriptions using a consistent, easily readable format.
If anyone wants to help with that, let me know. We are using a "format" of 4 section: Overview, Details, Notes, and Sources. The idea is to give the reader a "Bottom line up front" understanding in the overview section, and then provide a more in-depth understanding of the system in the "Detail" section, and "Nice to Know" information in the notes section. For example, the AS-2 and BN-21 system entry reads:
OVERVIEW: The AS-2 KIPPER (K-10SDV) is an air-launched, long-range, supersonic, liquid-fuel, turbojet-powered, anti-ship (ASM) missile. It had a 1000 kg HE warhead.
DETAILS: The AS-2 was designed primarily as an anti-ship weapon for use against large, high-value targets. It could also be used against large land targets. The AS-2 was typically launched at medium altitude. It then accelerated to approximately Mach 1.0 and cruised at about 10,000 meters using inertial navigation with an option of command correction for mid-course flight. At approximately 60 nm from the target, it entered a shallow 15 degree dive, leveling out at approximately 1000 meters altitude and 35 nm from the target. At approximately 10 nm from the target, the missile’s active radar activated, and guided the missile in the terminal phase. In the terminal phase, the AS-2 accelerated to approximately Mach 2 and dived into the target vessel close to or below the waterline.
NOTES: The AS-2 became operational in 1961. It was carried by the Tu-16K-10 (BADGER-C). It differed from the K-10 SD in its ability to be launched at a lower altitude. It had a CEP of 60 meters when used in an anti-ship role and a CEP of 1 to 2 nm when used against land targets.
SOURCES: Jane's Weapons Systems, Vol. 4: Strategic, "Kh-10S (AS-2 'Kipper')" 13 Oct 2011; GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Security Information. "K-10S (AS-2 Kipper)." Accessed November 11, 2013. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/as-2.htm ; Federation of American Scientists. "AS-2 - Russian and Soviet Nuclear Forces." Accessed November 11, 2013. http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/bomber/as-2.htm ; Norman Polmar, "Guide to the Soviet Navy, 3rd ed. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 357.
OVERVIEW: The BM-21 Grad (Grad is Russian for "Hail as in "Hailstorm") is a 122mm multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS).
DETAILS: The BM-21 Grad was developed in the early 1960's and was first seen by The West in 1964. It was intended to replace WWII era MLRS systems such as the highly successful "Katyusha" rocket launcher. The BM-21 is a 122mm MLRS with 40 rifled tubes stacked horizontally in four rows of ten tubes. The tubes are on a pivoting platform attached to the bed of an unarmored 6x6 truck chassis, which give it the ability to engage different targets without moving the vehicle. The tubes are sighted in similar fashion to laying a mortar using sights mounted on the left side of the launcher. The 40 rockets can be ripple fired in about 20 seconds. The launcher was initially mounted on a Ural 375D 6x6 truck and upgraded to a Ural 4320 6x6 in 1976, but the launcher is versatile enough that it could be mounted on many different types of truck. The rockets themselves are unguided ballistic rockets and are over nine feet long. They are capable of being fitted with a variety of longer range rocket motors and different types of warheads to include DPICM, chemical, and incendiary. The 40 tubes are loaded by hand and can be accomplished by an experienced crew in about ten minutes.
NOTES: In Soviet service a rocket launcher battalion consisting of three batteries of 6 BM-21 launchers is found in the artillery regiment of the motorized rifle and tank divisions. There is also a rocket launcher regiment of three battalions of BM-21 launchers organic to the combined arms army and tank army. The artillery division that is organic to the Soviet front may also have a rocket launcher brigade with 72 BM-21 in three 24-launcher battalions (four batteries of 6 launchers each). The BM-21 is still in service with the Russian Army and was widely exported in large numbers to many different operators and the launcher has been mounted on many different types of vehicle. Most recent use was during the 2008 War in South Ossetia.
SOURCES: Military Factory. "BM-21 (Grad) - Multiple Launch Rocket System - - History, Specs and Pictures - Military Tanks, Vehicles and Artillery." Accessed November 26, 2013. http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=398 ; Weaponsystems.net. "BM-21 Grad." Accessed November 26, 2013. http://www.weaponsystems.net/weapon.php?weapon=DD05%20-%20BM-21%20Grad ; FM 100-2-3, "The Soviet Army: Troops, Organization, and Equipment." Washington D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 1991
If anyone wants to help with this, please PM me. I'm approaching the end of the DB3000 image collection, and will start emphasizing the description files in the near future.
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Other things to add might be where it says "France" or "DDG - Guided Missile Destroyer" or "France Navy" could all be pages. Also a little further down you can see "Nuclear Shock Resistant", and "Degaussed Steel Hull". If you knew about those topics; please feel free to create those pages. Thanks downtown! Ps: Many thanks to Javafiend for making a bunch of pages too Oh, and for pictures; if you have a pile of pictures for units in the DB please get in touch with CV60; I've been importing the images from the image collection he curates.
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