Evolution of the Design Requirements of the Battleship Project 24

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Hi everyone, I have roughly translated and typeset this chart from the phenomenal book "Линейные корабли типа Советский Союз-Галея Принт (2006)" (Battleships of the Soviet Union).

I am hoping to translate the full section on Pr. 24 at some point, but the (searchable!) PDF is available at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CQU3A-aHpsAW04k1qtPb8Wz_DzOKUPtB/view?usp=sharing

This book is a phenomenal resource for any of the Soviet Battleship designs, starting with Project 21, with information on Project 23 (Sovetsky Soyuz) and Project 24, as well as the less well known "Type B" project 25 and project 64.
 
I do not know its size and deplacement or sub aramaments.
does anywone has its spec?
 
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Hi everyone, I have roughly translated and typeset this chart from the phenomenal book "Линейные корабли типа Советский Союз-Галея Принт (2006)" (Battleships of the Soviet Union).

I am hoping to translate the full section on Pr. 24 at some point, but the (searchable!) PDF is available at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CQU3A-aHpsAW04k1qtPb8Wz_DzOKUPtB/view?usp=sharing

This book is a phenomenal resource for any of the Soviet Battleship designs, starting with Project 21, with information on Project 23 (Sovetsky Soyuz) and Project 24, as well as the less well known "Type B" project 25 and project 64.
Is the translation still going on by chance? I've long been super interested in the Project 24 design
 
From what I know, this scan was fully OCRed, and though getting a copy in Latin characters still is desirable, it would be quite a lot of work. But you can easily copy and paste paragraphs to an online translator with a good chance of getting a suitable result. ;)
 
I found it in my files:
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: Soviet small BB projectsReply with quote

As the Soviet Navy considered Iowas to have far stronger armour than in reality the Project 24 BB with only 406mm guns was not considered to be decisively superior. As the displacement of Project 24 was stretching the limitations of the Soviet shipbuilding industry, during 1951-1952 CNII-45 prepared around 20 versions of smaller BBs, which while still retaining 16" guns, had the displacement, armour and speed of Pr. 82 cruiser. These are considered to be the last Soviet "classic gunship" BB design. Instead they switched to cruise missile armed capital ship projects.
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: Soviet small BB projectsReply with quote

snake65 wrote:
As the Soviet Navy considered Iowas to have far stronger armour than in reality the Project 24 BB with only 406mm guns was not considered to be decisively superior. As the displacement of Project 24 was stretching the limitations of the Soviet shipbuilding industry, during 1951-1952 CNII-45 prepared around 20 versions of smaller BBs, which while still retaining 16" guns, had the displacement, armour and speed of Pr. 82 cruiser. These are considered to be the last Soviet "classic gunship" BB design. Instead they switched to cruise missile armed capital ship projects.

Do you have any dimensions or specifications for the two depicted designs?
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:Reply with quote

Based on the info in McLaughlin's Russian & Soviet Battleships
The first drawing appears to be small battleship Design IIu-2p
Displacement: 31,870 tons std, 42,300 tons full load
Dimensions: 230m x 30m x 8.3m
Armament:
2 - 457mm; 4 - 220mm; 12 twin 57mm; 12 - quad 25mm
Armor
Belt: 180mm - increased to 220-250mm over magazines
Barbettes: 150-420mm
Fwd bulkhead: 300-500mm
Aft bulkhead: 130-180mm
Decks: 50mm+120mm+15mm
Machinery: 2 x 70,000 shp for 30.4 knots
The 2nd drawing appears to be Design II-III3
Displacement: 39,250 tons std; 44,9000 tons full load
Dimensions: 260m x 31m x 9m
Armament:
5 - 406mm (1 twin, 1 triple); 4 - 180mm; 12 - twin 57mm; 12 quad 25mm
Armor:
Belt: 180mm increased to 220 - 250 over magazines
Barbettes: 150 - 420mm
Fwd bulkhead: 300 - 500mm
Aft bulkhead: 130 - 180mm
Decks: 50mm+120mm+15mm
Machinery: 3 x 70,000 shp for 32.7 knots
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject:Reply with quote

Quite right, just some small corrections:
The belt is 180mm over the magazines and less everywhere else;
Full displacement for Design IIu-2p is 33870. 42300 is for Pr.82
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:02 am Post subject: Thanks again!Reply with quote

Thanks again, Snake65!
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When I first read about them and saw the drawing for the 5 x 16-inch gun version, I have always wondered what the 18-inch gun version looked like.

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Post Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:13 am Post subject:Reply with quote

The text for the first lists it as having 406mm (16") guns as well... but this does not fit with the size of the turret in the drawing when compared to the 220mm (8.7") triple turret aft.

Both drawings show 14 - twin 57mm mounts, not the 12 listed in the specifications.

The first drawing shows only 10 - quad 25mm mounts, not the 12 listed in the specifications.




I do think the 5 x 406mm + 3 x 7.1" version is much better balanced, but would have preferred a heavy AA/DP suite.

Replace the first pair of twin 57mm mounts on each side and the aft pair of twin 57mm mounts with the twin 130mm (5.1") 46cal mount as intended for the Stalingrad class BCs.

Replace the triple 7.1" turret with 2 twin 130mm (5.1") 46cal mounts as well.

Move the aft twin 57mm mount on each side to a superfiring position on the side (replacing the 3rd & 4th quad 25mm mounts on each side). Install a twin 130mm (5.1") 46cal mount where these twin 57mm mounts used to be.

This gives an armament of 5 - 406 [16"] (1 x 3 & 1 x 2); 14 - 130mm [5.1"] (7 x 2) DP; 16 - 57mm (8 x 2) AA; & 32 - 25mm (8 x 4) AA.
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:41 am Post subject:Reply with quote

BlackBat242 wrote:
The text for the first lists it as having 406mm (16") guns as well...

I've that book (a beautiful book), the text is wrong.
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject:Reply with quote

snake65
Great pictures!
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I liked small BB ships!(But these are not really small or light ones-compared to pre-WW2 ships.Compared to an Iowa, Montana, H-..., Yamato are more visible. Not mentioned an H-44 or a similar soviet topheavy ship!)
If you have similar great pictures about Pr.22 or Pr.66 heavy cruiser, please post!(H-44 also velcome!
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So, as seen the russian text above, ships are turbo-electric driven?
Or not? But the 4 diesel-generators outside the main armour stucture are interesting. So, translation are welcome!
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject:Reply with quote

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I doubt it very much that the ships are turbo-electric. As for the diesel generators, they are auxiliary anyway, I guess they just didn't have enough space inside the citadel.
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