Project TM-200 Motor Torpedo Boat - Soviet Steel, American Engines

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Project TM-200 Motor Torpedo Boat

TL;DR:
Coastal vessel, large torpedo boat with 6 .50cals.

History:
Project 200 was a wartime project to create a standardized hull design for MTBs and subchasers. Because of wartime circumstances, the design had to be able to constructed from either steel or wood, and needed a maximum beam of ~4m to be rail transportable as they would be built by inland river shipyards. A series of designs based first on the D-3 eventually resulted in Project 200 in November 1942, designed by Shipyard No. 640 at Sosnovka. Like other Soviet boats in the late-war, these ships were to use lend-lease Packard diesel engines, which were more reliable and powerful than earlier Soviet designs. There were 4 designs: OD-200 and OM-200, the subchaser designs (OD-200 is in-game too), and TD-200 and TM-200, the torpedo boat designs.

TM-200 was the steel torpedo boat design, which was to be built at shipyard No.341 in Rybinsk. Its loadout was identical to the wooden TD-200 type, having 3 twin DShK machine guns and 21 inch torpedo tubes, considerably more powerful than other Soviet torpedo boats. Interestingly, the two torpedo boat designs used different DShK mounts, the TD-200 2UK mounts and TM-200 MTU-2 mounts. The first TM-200 boat, TK-450 โ€œYungaโ€, was completed in 1944 and sent to Batumi for trials. Because of poor construction and propeller design issues, it was only able to reach 34 knots, 4 less than projected. The following vehicles resolved these issues and reached the projected 38 kts. In total only 24 ships were built, considerably less than the OD-200 and TD-200 designs.

Ship List:

TK-450 Yunga
TK-451
TK-452
TK-453
TK-454
TK-455
TK-456
TK-457
TK-458
TK-459
TK-708
TK-709
TK-710
TK-711
TK-741
TK-742
TK-743
TK-744
TK-745
TK-746
TK-747
TK-748
TK-749
TK-750

Specifications:

Armament:
3x2 12.7 mm DShK in MTU-2 mounts
2x1 533 mm TTKA-54 TTs
DCR (4 BB-1 and 8 BM-1 depth charges)

Displacement:
44.8 tons standard
46.9 tons full

Length: 23.4m

Beam: 4.05m

Draft: 1.1m

Propulsion: 3 Packard 4M-2500 diesel engines, 3600 hp, driving 3 propellers

Speed: 38 knots (70.4 km/h)

Range: 488 nmi (at 9.5 kts)

Crew: 11

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Sources:
Budzbon, P. Radziemski, J. Twardowski, M. (2022). Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939โ€“1945 (Kindle Edition. pp. 342-344). Pen and Sword.
https://russianships.info/eng/warfareboats/project_tm200.htm
https://ั€ัƒััะบะฐั-ัะธะปะฐ.ั€ั„/guide/navy/nk/tka/pr200.shtm
https://www.moremhod.info/index.php/library-menu/16-morskaya-tematika/239-nadvodnyj-voennyj-flot-sssr-chast-3?showall=1

2 Likes

+1 quite cool to mix American and Soviet stuff

This would be REALLY good in Rank III. While the Pr.123k is great, having 6x DShK would do far more damage than 2x KPVT. +1