Dmitry Pozharsky
Tier VIII · Cruiser · U.S.S.R. · Premium
Rating A+ (Strong within its tier and class · overall score 75) · Gunnery cruiser
Gunnery cruiser, suited to AA escort, DD hunting. It is weak against battleships (AP deals a same-tier battleship's HP in about 16 min on paper · torpedoes supply 42% of it). 4 charges of Short Burst Smoke Generator let it break vision and escape whenever it gets caught. Its AP main battery DPM of 63,154 is 29% above the same-tier cruiser average. AP-only, but its destroyer-calibre shells rarely overpen, so they work on destroyers too. Key skills: Air Defense Alert III ×3; Radar II ×2 (8.1 km, 10 s); Short Burst Smoke Generator ×4 (5 s deploy, 16 s linger).
Key stats
- HP: 32,804
- Top speed: 33.08 kn
- Surface detectability: 8.88 km
- Main battery: 152 mm 4X3 · reload 7 s · range 12.54 km
Project 68-bis cruiser Dmitry Pozharsky was laid down in Leningrad at Ordzhonikidze Shipyard No. 189 in February 1952. The ship was launched in June 1953 and commissioned in December 1954. In February 1955, she was assigned to the Northern Fleet, but during the summer of the same year, the cruiser headed for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to join the 14th Cruiser Division of the Pacific Fleet. In 1961, Dmitry Pozharsky joined the 9th Division of ASW Ships, and from 1967, she was on active duty within the 10th Tactical Squadron permanently operating in the Indian Ocean.