Battleships: Soyuz Class

[designeraccd]

None of these GIANT battleships were ever completed thanks to the Nazi invasion. Here are several views of the incomplete Black Sea unit SOVIET UKRAINIA...........

Tonnage wise they would have only been second to the IJN's YAMATOs despite only mounting 9-16"!!! DFO

[Blackbat242]

They were designed using the Italian Pugliese torpedo defense system - the cylinders in the middle photo are not boilers, they are either part of the TDS (some sources) or submarine hull sections (other sources).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littorio- ... nse_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littorio- ... ign_navies

[Blackbat242]

Class particulars:
41,500 t
30 knot speed
9-40.6cm (3x3)
12-15.2cm (6x2)
12-10cm (6x2)
40-3.7cm (10x4)
Belt: 380 mm
Deck: 185 mm
2 catapults and 4 aircraft


Official Soviet Navy model of the Sovetskii Soyuz (Project 23/24) class as designed in 1938:

Sovetskii Soyuz 1.jpg

Sovetskii Soyuz 2.jpg

Sovetskii Soyuz 3.jpg

[designeraccd]

These monsters were also known as Project 23. After the war the soviets decided the design was not good enough, for a variety of reasons. Therefore the 2 units in the far frozen North and Baltic were not completed. The Black Sea unit had been badly damaged by the retreating Nazis.

These were followed, on paper postwar, by the Project 24 design, also with 9-16". These would have exceeded the YAMATOs in overall size:

Displacement: ◦ 72,950 metric tons standard
◦ 81,150 metric tons full

• Length: 282 m
• Beam: 40.4 m
• Draft: 11.5 m
• Propulsion: 280,000 SHP, 4 shafts
• Speed: 30 knots
• Armament: ◦ 3x3 406 mm L/50 main guns
◦ 8x2 130 mm L/58 dual-purpose secondaries

• Armor: ◦ Belt: 450-410 mm at 20 degrees
◦ Deck: 60 mm weather deck
165 mm main armor deck
20 mm splinter deck

◦ Traverse bulkheads: 400 mm front and rear
◦ Barbettes: 500-415 mm
◦ Turrets: 600 mm front
230 mm side
230 mm roof

◦ TDS: 6.2 m depth

DFO