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Sovyetskiy Soyuz

Axis & Allies War at Sea - Sovyetskiy Soyuz
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General TypeShip
Unit TypeBattleship
Cost67
SetSet V
ManufacturerHasbro
Available1942
Set ID18
Game Class LimitsSovyetskiy Soyuz
CountrySoviet Union (Details)
PrototypeSovyetskiy Soyuz (Details)
ClassSovyetskiy Soyuz (Details)
Armor10
Vital16
Hull Points6
Speed139
Primary16/16/15/14
Secondary7/7/6/5
AA8/0/-/-
Special AbilityBad Weather Fighter
Special AbilityFlagship 1
Special AbilityExtended Range 4
Special AbilityTorpedo Defense 1
Game RarityR
Axis & Allies War at Sea - Sovyetskiy Soyuz Jakk24
24  of these sold for an average price of: 27.7327.7324 of these sold for an average price of: 27.73
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Prototype:
Sovetsky Soyuz (Russian: Советский Союз—Soviet Union) was formally laid down 15 July 1938 in Shipyard Nr. 189 (Ordzhonikidze) in Leningrad, although evidence suggests that construction actually began in January 1939 after her slipway was completed, the necessary cranes were in place, and working drawings had been completed.[28] When the war began she was estimated to be 21.19% complete, with 15,818 metric tons (15,568 long tons) of steel assembled on the slip. She was only lightly damaged by German air attacks and bombardments, and, as some material had been used during the Siege of Leningrad, she was estimated to be 19.5% complete after the end of the war. Some thought was given to completing her, but this was opposed as she was regarded as obsolete in light of the experience gained during the war. Stalin's expressed desire to see one of the Project 23-class ships completed only delayed the decision to scrap her; this was ordered on 29 May 1948 and was well underway by April 1949.
Class History:
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23), also known as "Stalin’s Republics", were a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the battleships being built by Germany. Only four hulls of the sixteen originally planned had been laid down by 1940, when the decision was made to cut the program to only three ships to divert resources to an expanded army rearmament program.

These ships would have rivaled the Imperial Japanese Yamato class and America’s planned Montana class in size if any had been completed, although with significantly weaker firepower: nine 406-millimeter (16.0 in) guns compared to the nine 460-millimeter (18.1 in) guns of the Japanese ships and a dozen 16-inch (406.4 mm) on the Montanas. However, they would have been superior to their German rivals, the Bismarck class, at least on paper. The failure of the Soviet armor plate industry to build cemented armor plates thicker than 230 millimeters (9.1 in) would have negated any advantages from the Sovetsky Soyuz class’s thicker armor in combat.

Construction of the first four ships was plagued with difficulties as the Soviet shipbuilding and related industries were not prepared to build such large ships. One battleship, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, was cancelled on 19 October 1940 after serious construction flaws were found. Construction of the other three ships was suspended shortly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and never resumed. All three of the surviving hulls were scrapped in the late 1940s.
Country:
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple equal national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.
Item created by: Lethe on 2015-05-31 17:46:30. Last edited by gdm on 2020-01-04 09:26:41

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