Russian Destroyer posted

PSULLYKEYS

PSULLYKEYS

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Type7 Russian DD available at my site. 2 paints, Baltic/Black sea and Northern Fleet. Enjoy!:salute:
 
Thanks guys, I'm having a good time and learning a lot. She's not easy to sink, she'll give you a run for your money. Just missed with a torpedo, scored a bomb hit, and waiting in the wings, the next class 7U, improved Soviet DD is just about ready. She bears an uncanny resemblance to the German Type34s!
 
Some names for the Callsign.dat file to go with this great little destroyer. You are right Sully: she is a tough nut to crack!

; Black Sea Fleet
Bodry, 5,5,15
Bystri,5,5,15
Bezuprechny,5,5,15
Bditelny,5,5,15
Boiky,5,5,15
Bezposhchadny,5,5,15
; Baltic Fleet
Gnevny,5,5,15
Gordy,5,5,15
Grozyashtni,5,5,15
Steregushchy,5,5,15
; Northern Fleet
Gordny,5,5,15
Gromky,5,5,15
Gremyashchy,5,5,15
Sokru****elny,5,5,15
Stemitleny,5,5,15


Good grief! Those asterisks have appeared because the middle of that particular name spelt out "sh" followed by "it". I'm all for reasonable filtering, but that verges on the hysterical!
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Just going from my memory, this DD looks like the predecessor of the Cold War era Skoryy class DD. I say from memory because (1) I couldn't find any image of a Skoryy DD online and (2) I've seen a couple of the old Skoryy cans up close when they were tattle-tailing CV's I was on. Am I in the ballpark, Sully? :d
 
Rusky DD

SKORY CLASS DD

Origin: Soviet Union
Type: Destroyer
Year: 1949 <<<=== Post-WWII
Displacement, tons: 2 240
Dimensions, meters: 120.5 x 11.9 x 4.6
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Guns: 4 x 130mm/50 2 x 85mm 8 x 37mm 4 x 25mm
Torpedoes: 10 x 533mm
Main Engines: 2 x turbines. 60 000 Shp
Speed, knots: 33
Range, miles: 3 900
Complement: 280

A total of 85 ships where built between 1949 & 1954 at the Nikolayev , Severodvisnk and Leningrad ship yards. There were originally 3 different types of design, but in Cold War Online it defines only one class. Can also carry up to 80 mines.
 
Yep, looks like a newer class, my WW2 source says the next class was the Ognyevoi class of 14, laid down in '39-41, most completed in '47-49, just 2 during the war. They looked similar, but had the 130mm guns in two double mounts, one fore, one aft. They were 13 feet longer, 5 1/2 feet wider and were reported to be much better sea boats.

Only 18 of the 7u class were built, many lost in the war, a few towed up the Neva River unfinished to be used as floating batteries. The WW2 classes could traverse the URSS canal system to travel between the White, Baltic and Black seas. 30 of the class 7 were built. 3 remain today, as modified, in a Chinese ship museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshan_class_destroyer

Thanks for your interest!
 
And thank you Sully for providing us with another ship.
I remember operating with the old Fletcher and Gearing class DD's used by the Greek and Turkish navies back in the 70's. You'd see them out there plowing along with the battle group, easy to imagine yourself back in 1945. :)
 
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