On a warship, a large naval gun with strong firepower must be equipped with a long enough range to launch an effective attack on the opponent. During the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony, the Soviet Union developed many excellent weapon systems. Among them, the AK-130 naval gun is a very powerful weapon. It is still in use today and has become a classic.
AK-130 naval gun, adopts a double-mounted design, the 130 in the model refers to the 130mm caliber, which is a joint of the Soviet Amedist Design Bureau and the Flenzer Arms Design Bureau A naval gun designed. In the entire naval gun system, a computer-controlled fire control system is included, which is capable of fully automatic firing, and can also use the optical sight on the turret for semi-automatic firing. If you encounter special circumstances, you can also shoot in manual mode.
The turret of the complete set of AK-130 naval gun is made of steel casting, with a total weight of 94 tons and a very large body, so its stealth effect is relatively poor. Due to its heavy weight, it can only be equipped on large warships. On the four modern class destroyers imported from Russia, the original ones are the AK-130 naval guns. Not only can it strike targets on the water surface, but it can also carry out firepower attacks on the shore. At the same time, it can also strike targets in the air, and even destroy incoming missiles. When carrying out onshore fire support, one AK-130 naval gun can surpass the ground artillery attack power of one artillery battalion.
AK-130 naval gun has an initial speed of 875 meters per second, a maximum rate of fire of 70 rounds per second, a maximum range of nearly 30 kilometers, and a maximum height of 20 kilometers. It is equipped with two vertical bomb-raising channels, using fully automatic bomb feeding and loading, with a very high degree of automation, and the overall firepower performance is very powerful. Looking at the traditional naval weapons of the world, the AK-130 naval gun is the most fierce and powerful naval gun besides the advanced naval gun system used on the U.S. Zumwalt-class destroyer. However, the AK-130 naval gun also has very obvious shortcomings, because the structure is too complex, maintenance is not convenient. In addition, the volume of the gun mount and the large mass of the whole set of naval guns resulted in too strong rotational inertia of the gyration part, and the azimuth aiming acceleration could not go up, which greatly affected the rapid response capability of the gun.
When there is strong electromagnetic interference, or when the fire control system has problems, or even when the electronic system is damaged in battle, the photoelectric sighting device at the upper right of the AK-130 turret can also be semi-automatically controlled. It can even shoot in manual mode, which is of great significance in real combat. On the large Russian warships, the AK-130 naval gun has also become a must-have naval gun.
The AK-130 naval gun equipped on 4 modern-class destroyers has become the most powerful naval gun system of the Navy since it came to our country at the beginning of this century. Later, my country developed a new single-barrel 130mm naval gun on its own, which was also developed on the basis of the AK-130 naval gun. This naval gun has made a lot of contributions to the modernization of the Chinese navy.
