Sun Yat-Sen
Tier IX · Battleship · Pan-Asia · Premium
Rating S- (Near elite within its tier and class · overall score 82) · Long-range battleship
Long-range battleship. It is especially strong against battleships and cruisers (AP deals a same-tier battleship's HP in about 5 min on paper). Its 457mm guns carry a 300% citadel multiplier, so a salvo that citadels can deal up to 40,788. Tight groupings let it reliably punish broadsides. Main battery range is 14.1 km, and dispersion at 12 km is about 246 m, 26% tighter than average. Effective HP of 66,483 is 5% above average, so it holds up well.
Key stats
- HP: 54,516
- Top speed: 26.69 kn
- Surface detectability: 11.64 km
- Main battery: 457 mm 3X2 · reload 17.5 s · range 14.1 km
The project of a Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship incorporated considerable upgrades in the 1950s. The main battery mounts were replaced by 457 mm twin-gun mounts—one of the options considered for the project during the development of Project 24. The medium-caliber guns and long-range AA artillery were replaced by 152 mm dual-purpose mounts, and the small-caliber AA artillery was represented by ZIF-75 and ZIF-31B gun mounts. Such a ship could well have been handed over to China as part of Soviet assistance in their Navy development program.