Hi everyone,

I'm back with another Soviet destroyer build. I'm running through these in a rough order that will culminate with the most powerful gun-era early Cold War vessels, while also including their most powerful project ships such as the Project 24 armoured destroyer leader and Project 40N destroyers.

This time though, it's the turn of the Ognevoy-Class Destroyers (Project 30). I've built this class of ship before, choosing last time to represent Osmotritelnyy of the "corrected" (Project 30K) class. However, I knew I could improve on what is a six-year-old design by now and I also wanted to showcase the original Ognevoy design, so here it is!

24 of these ships were planned by the war intervened and so the first units were only completed right at the end of the Second World War and in far fewer numbers. Of the 11 that were eventually finished, only 1, the lead ship, Ognevoy herself was completed to the original Project 30 specifications. The remaining 10 vessels were modified and completed to a new "K" or "corrected" design. The main changes could be seen in an early Cold War-era superstructure design but also the swapping out of the aft 76.2mm twin turret for an 85mm twin turret.

The World of Warships model of Ognevoy has some inaccuracies, so I haven't used it here aside from representing the colours from that model. The WoWs model has quintuple torpedoes instead of triples (it was intended to mount quintuples in the Project 30-Class ships but this never happened). The WoWs model also has some other incorrect details so I've gone with War Thunder's model (including the ceremonial Soviet Star rigging pattern just for fun) and just updated the colour scheme.

As for the statistics, here you go:

Length: 122 Blocks (Inc. Ensign Flag)
Beam: 15 Blocks (Inc. Protruding AA Guns)
Height: 43 Blocks
Draught: 5 Blocks

Primary Armament: 4 x 130mm/50 B-2LM Pattern 1936 Guns [​2 x 2]

Anti-Aircraft Armament: 2 x 76.2mm/55 39-K Pattern 1935 Guns [​1 x 2], 6 x 37mm/67.5 70-K Guns [​6 x 1], 4 x 12.7mm/79 DShK M38 Heavy Machine Guns [​4 x 1]

Torpedo Armament: 6 x 533mm 53-39 Torpedoes [​2 x 3]

Anti-Submarine Armament: 2 x Depth Charge Rails & 2 x Depth Charge Throwers (with accompanying depth charges)

So there you have it! I hope you guys like the ship and can see the vast improvements made in both my skills as a shipbuilder but also in the texture pack and mods that I now use to represent these beautiful warships. Go and check out some of my original Soviet destroyers and you'll see the difference.

I'll be back soon with another build (but I haven't started it yet :D) so be patient. I'll talk to you all again soon.

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