Talk:RPK-6 Vodopad/RPK-7 Veter

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Any particular reason for removing half a dozen categories people had tagged onto this entry? --Sherurcij 00:11, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Picture needs to be removed
The picture needs to be removed. That submarine is not the Kursk. The sub in the picture is a VICTOR III-class SSN, while the Kursk was an OSCAR II-class SSGN. Furthermore, the presence of propellers at the aft-end of the torpedo tube-launched weapon being loaded aboard indicates that it is a heavyweight torpedo, not an SS-N-16 as claimed.


 * Oy, you sound like you know what you're talking about better than the website I happened to steal the image off of...go ahead and remove it :) Sherurcij 14:13, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

What is in russian for SS-N-16?
AFAIK, it's either or
 * 1) RPK-6 Vodopad (РПК-6 Водопад, "waterfall") - Surface ship version


 * 1) RPK-7 Vorobei (РПК-7 Воробей, "sparrow") - Submarine version

Both systems are firing 82R torpedo or 90R nuclear depth charge in 53.3 cm version and 83R torpedo carrying or 86R nuclear depth charge in 65 cm version. See http://www.aviation.ru/missile/#RPK-6 (I'm the owner of that site and grant permission to use the data).

And I, being a native russian, know no word veder or vodopod! While "vodopod" is obvious typo, I aint sure about "veder". Maybe, "veter" (wind)? Or "vedro" (sort of basket)?

Please, fix the page! --jno 10:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The German Wikipedia suggests "Veter". I have found no sources that give "Vorobei". Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 23:23, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Deployment date?
There's no source on the deployment date range, which I highly suspect is wrong. I came here looking for more information after seeing it was equipped on the Akuka class, which entered service five years after this weapon was supposedly taken out of service. --Thatnewguy (talk) 11:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ I've updated the wrong year and added a ref. --Kubanczyk (talk) 18:22, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

What replaced the Stallion?
This sounds like an attractive weapon, it is launched and flies through the air then drops into the water to release a torpedo. If it went out of service in 1981, what replaced it? // Mark Renier (talk) 22:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * It entered the service in 1981, not ended it - I've corrected the article. --Kubanczyk (talk) 18:26, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

"Type 88R"?
Victor class submarine gives a designation "Type 88R". I can find no reference to this on Google (though I did not look deeply, and there may be Russian refs). Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 23:15, 2 September 2010 (UTC)