Tashkent '39
Tier VII · Destroyer · U.S.S.R. · Premium
Rating D (Bottom tier within its tier and class · overall score 10) · Stealth torpedo destroyer
Stealth torpedo destroyer, suited to torpedo ambush. It is weak against cruisers (AP deals a same-tier cruiser's HP in about 7 min on paper · torpedoes supply 39% of it). Top speed of 42.8 kn is high, but sluggish rudder and acceleration make sudden dodges hard. A full torpedo spread can deal up to 28,980 (all launchers combined). Torpedo DPM is 20% higher than average. Weak guns: avoid gunfights and focus on torpedoes or spotting.
Key stats
- HP: 18,745
- Top speed: 42.81 kn
- Surface detectability: 6.6 km
- Main battery: 130 mm 3X1 · reload 5 s · range 8.4 km
Destroyer flotilla leader Tashkent was designed and built at the Odero-Terni-Orlando shipyard in Italy. Three Soviet-made 130 mm B-2L (Model 1936) twin-gun turrets were supposed to be placed on the ship; however, at the design stage, the B-2L and B-2M projects were merged into one, the B-2LM, causing delays during testing. When she was commissioned into the Soviet Navy in October 1939, three single-gun 130 mm B-13 gun mounts were placed on the ship as temporary weapons—it was with that artillery on board that she met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Tashkent received her standard weaponry of three B-2LM mounts by July 1941.