It’s L62 caliber gun you comparing to L45
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Actually Stalingrad’s gun has to be, and designed to be in similar as 16-inch as possible
because the ship itself was to be ‘CV escort’ what originally the role Soviet Navy wants for battleship,
So it becomes very distorted gun in reality. Barrel length is longer than American 16’'/45 on NC and SD class, and weight is also heavier too, while performance is worse.
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Looks cool, but I hope they add H-39 someday
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What the hell is H-39?
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Comparison for size (Fictional)
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As the person above showed quite well, Germany’s largest partial built battleship
Never realised it was that big lol
Ngl that’s how big the SovetSky feels when I try to turn T-T
I didn’t know the hull for the Stalingrad was laid down though. Did a bunch of random research on it last night cuz I couldn’t sleep lol.
Apparently at first they were all ghost ships made up by western media.
German superbattleship with a displacement of up to 62,000 tons and 406mm artillery
According to the Germans, they laid the keels of two ships and prepared the hull structure, but after the start of WWII they decided not to complete it.
There’s where you lose me lol. Didnt the Germans claim like 5x the amount of tank kills than they really got? And planes?
We do have an image of one of the keels
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Surprised I am, Germans ain’t lying for once XD (not you just history)
There are 6 ships, each codenamed H, J, K, L, M,N, that are ordered, but only two, H and J, are laid down.
H: July 15, 1939
J: August 15, 1939
This was due to shortage of shipyard that is big enough to build battleship, and some of those yards are already in use for smaller ship.
For example, J was to be built on slipway where Seydlitz was on built, and even during the very short time between Seydlitz being slipped away incomplete and J laid down, two tugboats were built on that slipway.
As war started, on September 30, 1939 Admiral Raeder ordered to halt built of battleships to focus on destroyers and submarines. While non-laid down ships were cancelled earlier, official cancellation of H and J were during 1941.
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Was anything of this existing? The super shell? The guns?
It’s not a super shell, pretty sure it’s the same one from the Kron, but the Stalingrad has a way longer gun.
Same HE mass and the like, just a longer barrel that increases its pen by 50mm~
I just can’t believe these stats. How can a 12’’ gun fire shells like this? It must be very long to contain all the HE mass. How they handle the wear? I can’t imagine the gun has a practical service life. Beside some test shots maybe. But how can this work under service conditions?
Both the shell and gun made, unlike Kronshtadt who has shell but no gun.
12 guns were made
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Yes the barrel is longer than 16’'/45 guns.
Yes the wear is quite severe than 12’’ new guns at similar era(only 300 rounds per one span), but Soviet navy doesn’t seem as problem as they can quickly return to base in Baltic/Black Seas
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Thx. Lets just hope is the last one of the soviet blueprint fleet. It somehow feels strange that the mode is dominated by these ships.
Don’t worry. Stalingrad’s severe survivability problem would stop her from being OP