The story of Sovetsky Soyuz

 

“The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23, Russian: Советский Союз, "Soviet Union"), 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.”

 

So, the Sovetsky Soyuz was never actually used but only the keel and hull were laid down before they stopped building it.

The original plan was to build 15 of these battleships but the plan was stopped and one of the four ships the Sovetskaya Belorussiya was canceled because there were major design flaws.

As for the other three ships well, they were scrapped a few days later (at least I think it happened a few days later).

 

                             Sovetsky Soyuz

            Armament: 3 × triple 406 mm (16 in) guns

                                 6 × twin 100 mm (3.9 in) DP guns

                                6 × twin 152 mm (6 in) guns

            Aircraft Carried: 4 KOR-2 flying boats

            Armor: waterline belt: 180–420 mm (7.1–16.5 in)

  deck armor: 25–155 mm (1.0–6.1 in)

  turret armor: 230–495 mm (9.1–19.5 in)

  bulkheads: 75–365 mm (3.0–14.4 in)

  conning tower: 425 mm (16.7 in)

            Speed: 28 - 30 knots

            Length: 269.4 meters

            Beam: 38.9 meters

            Draft: 10.4 meters

             Displacement: 59,150 tons

 

So, from the description here it really sounds like a wide and long ship which for the navy it can hold more weapons like anti-aircraft turrets, secondary turrets, 1-2 aircraft catapults and some more space for planes

They designed the battleships in response to the existing and planned battleships of the German navy.

And German scout planes (at least two of them) had actually taken pictures of the Sovetsky Soyuz in the Baltic shipyard and it showed that only the hull was completed and there was another unknown ship in the picture, my guess is the ship was one of the four remaining ships before they were scrapped.

Ok so let’s say that the four ships including the Sovetsky Soyuz was completed then when it met the enemies they would have big fights with other ships and it will absolutely give the enemy ships a beating with those big heavy guns firing and reloading and I think the sound of those guns will be ultra-loud.

But there was one thing, those battleships were really wide and long which means that they will be an easier target for aircrafts with bombs and torpedoes.

But it does have thick armor with the waterline belt being 7.1 to 16.5 inches thick so its really hard to say what would have happened.

and its also really fast 28-30 knots and you know that’s like the speed of USS Missouri.

 

 

 

 

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