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29-04-2024, 03:53 PM
Ukraine’s sneaky submarine may change naval warfare forever. FROM BILLIONAIRE TOY TO HUNTER-KILLER VESSEL
A Ukrainian startup’s stealth submarine vessel is the equivalent of a fighter jet for hit-and-run missions against the Russian navy.
Somewhere In Arabian Desert—somewhere past the end of Dubai—a small band of misfits claim to have built a submarine of the future in the middle of an ocean of sand.
Hanging from a heavy industrial crane inside an industrial warehouse, the black silhouette of the machine feels biological & menacing, almost alive as its creators put in the last touches before its virgin voyage.
Name is Kronos, according to its chief designer, Ukrainian engineer Alexander Kuznetsov, founder of Highland Systems, it may change naval warfare forever.
If it's a large submarines then is slow-moving bombers of the sea, Kronos is a stealth jet fighter, capable of maneuvering at fast's speeds, turning on a dime, and sneaking behind big enemy ships to disable them with torpedoes and even sink them. With magnetic mines. Its design is intended to have it lie on the ocean seabed, listening to its sensors, like a predator patiently waiting for its prey.
These are lofty claims, if Kronos performs as Kuznetsov & his team expect, it has a chance of disrupting war at sea the same way drones have in air & a new generation of easy-to-use, hit-and-run weapons have on land.
As Matthew Sweeney—a commander in the U.S. Navy & professor at U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island—tells me in a video interview, everything Highland Systems proposes is feasible on paper. Ukraine, however, is at war now.
Hear hear!. A RADICAL REDESIGN OF THE OLD SUBMARINE. (Now!. So how. Is it in Singapore 4th new Sub is a step backward, as Singapore navy is going to eat glass at home, should design remote Sub or with 1 - 2 crew in control .
with new capabilities will include running sonar, deploying magnetic mines, controlling cable-guided mini-drones, & training course, launching mini-torpedoes. Must be friendly design quickly evolved into a war machine through all turn iterations can first tested with computer simulations & physical models of increasing sizes, both in wind tunnels & large swimming pools. 
Old Submarine design remained ostensibly since end of 19th century, when Spaniard Isaac Peral invented 1st fully capable submarine, from diesel U-boats & terrorized Allied convoys during WW-II, to modern nuclear-powered attack submarines that unleash storm of atomic missiles over planet at a turn of a key, all is tubes, powered by hybrid diesel-electrical engines or nuclear reactors.
Now, it envisioned to operate in deep waters, current submarines patrol oceans for months at time. Powerful & deadly, but huge, & maneuver quite slow.
One eg: An ops like a crash dive means sub dive from surface down, as fast as possible to avoid been attack—took a WW II-era submarine about 30 seconds.
Eg: A modern, Ohio-class nuclear sub can takes up to five minutes to fully submerge. Size comes with a host of problems. Submarines are laborious to turn, average submarine going at full speed has a turning radius ranges 750 to 1,500 feet. & need considerable amount of water to operate in all. Even smaller vessels—like anti-submarine hunter-killers, designated as SSK—have a minimum operating depth of 650 feet, according to U.S. Naval Institute, b'cos they need to have space under their keel.
Kronos designed to performance in of the opposite of traditional submarine. Intentionally small, stealthy design is meant to creep close to shore, or enemy vessels, firing pinpoint torpedos, dropping mines to cause devastation like drone than a U-boat.
No needing crew of 100 to operate like submarines of today, Kronos can handled a single brave pilot carry up to eight special operations commandos.
FROM BILLIONAIRE TOY TO HUNTER-KILLER VESSEL
Kuznetsov—no relation to Ukrainian Russian actor Aleksandr Kuznetzov—was born in Ukraine but moved to Russia at age 6 to study, all the way from grade school to the completion of his doctorate in engineering. He returned to his home country to assemble a team to try to build the first-ever electric amphibious armored vehicle. It wasn’t possible, he says, because the bureaucracy in Ukraine was too great, requiring multiple permits to buy crucial components even before the war started. In order to acquire necessary tools and parts, the team moved to the United Arab Emirates, “where you can get anything you want” as long as you have the money to buy it, he says. They quickly found a local partner—armored vehicles maker Streit Group—and finally built their peculiar vehicle.
Soon after, the team decided to build a new type of personal submarine for work and leisure. In Kuznetsov’s mind, this vessel would have two versions: One model would carry workers to service underwater infrastructure, like communication cables or oil rigs. The other would be a luxury vehicle made for the eccentrically rich as the perfect accessory to their megayachts.
It seemed like a fun and lucrative plan . . . until Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started a gruesome, illegal war. That’s when Kuznetsov and his team—like other engineers and companies in his country—decided to pivot to defend their homeland. Their new mission: redesign Kronos to fight against the Russian navy in the highly contested Black Sea.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90872671/ukr...re-forever
A Ukrainian startup’s stealth submarine vessel is the equivalent of a fighter jet for hit-and-run missions against the Russian navy.
Somewhere In Arabian Desert—somewhere past the end of Dubai—a small band of misfits claim to have built a submarine of the future in the middle of an ocean of sand.
Hanging from a heavy industrial crane inside an industrial warehouse, the black silhouette of the machine feels biological & menacing, almost alive as its creators put in the last touches before its virgin voyage.
Name is Kronos, according to its chief designer, Ukrainian engineer Alexander Kuznetsov, founder of Highland Systems, it may change naval warfare forever.
If it's a large submarines then is slow-moving bombers of the sea, Kronos is a stealth jet fighter, capable of maneuvering at fast's speeds, turning on a dime, and sneaking behind big enemy ships to disable them with torpedoes and even sink them. With magnetic mines. Its design is intended to have it lie on the ocean seabed, listening to its sensors, like a predator patiently waiting for its prey.
These are lofty claims, if Kronos performs as Kuznetsov & his team expect, it has a chance of disrupting war at sea the same way drones have in air & a new generation of easy-to-use, hit-and-run weapons have on land.
As Matthew Sweeney—a commander in the U.S. Navy & professor at U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island—tells me in a video interview, everything Highland Systems proposes is feasible on paper. Ukraine, however, is at war now.
Hear hear!. A RADICAL REDESIGN OF THE OLD SUBMARINE. (Now!. So how. Is it in Singapore 4th new Sub is a step backward, as Singapore navy is going to eat glass at home, should design remote Sub or with 1 - 2 crew in control .
with new capabilities will include running sonar, deploying magnetic mines, controlling cable-guided mini-drones, & training course, launching mini-torpedoes. Must be friendly design quickly evolved into a war machine through all turn iterations can first tested with computer simulations & physical models of increasing sizes, both in wind tunnels & large swimming pools. Old Submarine design remained ostensibly since end of 19th century, when Spaniard Isaac Peral invented 1st fully capable submarine, from diesel U-boats & terrorized Allied convoys during WW-II, to modern nuclear-powered attack submarines that unleash storm of atomic missiles over planet at a turn of a key, all is tubes, powered by hybrid diesel-electrical engines or nuclear reactors.
Now, it envisioned to operate in deep waters, current submarines patrol oceans for months at time. Powerful & deadly, but huge, & maneuver quite slow.
One eg: An ops like a crash dive means sub dive from surface down, as fast as possible to avoid been attack—took a WW II-era submarine about 30 seconds.
Eg: A modern, Ohio-class nuclear sub can takes up to five minutes to fully submerge. Size comes with a host of problems. Submarines are laborious to turn, average submarine going at full speed has a turning radius ranges 750 to 1,500 feet. & need considerable amount of water to operate in all. Even smaller vessels—like anti-submarine hunter-killers, designated as SSK—have a minimum operating depth of 650 feet, according to U.S. Naval Institute, b'cos they need to have space under their keel.
Kronos designed to performance in of the opposite of traditional submarine. Intentionally small, stealthy design is meant to creep close to shore, or enemy vessels, firing pinpoint torpedos, dropping mines to cause devastation like drone than a U-boat.
No needing crew of 100 to operate like submarines of today, Kronos can handled a single brave pilot carry up to eight special operations commandos.
FROM BILLIONAIRE TOY TO HUNTER-KILLER VESSEL
Kuznetsov—no relation to Ukrainian Russian actor Aleksandr Kuznetzov—was born in Ukraine but moved to Russia at age 6 to study, all the way from grade school to the completion of his doctorate in engineering. He returned to his home country to assemble a team to try to build the first-ever electric amphibious armored vehicle. It wasn’t possible, he says, because the bureaucracy in Ukraine was too great, requiring multiple permits to buy crucial components even before the war started. In order to acquire necessary tools and parts, the team moved to the United Arab Emirates, “where you can get anything you want” as long as you have the money to buy it, he says. They quickly found a local partner—armored vehicles maker Streit Group—and finally built their peculiar vehicle.
Soon after, the team decided to build a new type of personal submarine for work and leisure. In Kuznetsov’s mind, this vessel would have two versions: One model would carry workers to service underwater infrastructure, like communication cables or oil rigs. The other would be a luxury vehicle made for the eccentrically rich as the perfect accessory to their megayachts.
It seemed like a fun and lucrative plan . . . until Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started a gruesome, illegal war. That’s when Kuznetsov and his team—like other engineers and companies in his country—decided to pivot to defend their homeland. Their new mission: redesign Kronos to fight against the Russian navy in the highly contested Black Sea.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90872671/ukr...re-forever
