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The Yasen class, Russian designations Project 885 Yasen and Project 885M Yasen-M (Russian: Ясень, lit. 'ash tree', NATO reporting name: Severodvinsk), also referred to as the Graney class, are a series of nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines designed by the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau and built by Sevmash for the Russian Navy ...
Design B-65 was a class of cruisers planned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before and during World War II.The IJN referred to this design as a 'Super Type A' cruiser; It was larger than most heavy cruisers but smaller than most battlecruisers, and as such, has been variously described as a 'super-heavy cruiser,' a 'super cruiser,' or as a 'cruiser-killer.'
Takao-class heavy cruiser 15,490 30 March 1932 23 October 1944; Sunk by USS Darter at in Palawan Passage during the Battle of Leyte Gulf: Chōkai: Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Takao-class heavy cruiser 15,490 30 June 1932 25 October 1944; Sunk by USN during Battle off Samar: Maya: Kawasaki, Kobe Takao-class heavy cruiser 15,490 30 June 1932
The test was announced as a success. [24] After long delays finally the lead vessel, Yuriy Dolgorukiy, joined the Russian Navy on 10 January 2013. The official ceremony raising the Russian Navy colors on the submarine was led by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. [25] It was actively deployed in 2014 after a series of exercises. [26] [27]
The declared weight was 8,500 tons, though the true design weight was 9,500 and at trials they would displace 11,169 tons. [3] “They must be building their ships out of cardboard or lying” said the Royal Navy’s Director of Naval Construction (DNC) in 1935 when briefed by Naval Intelligence about the public displacement figure announced by ...
Haguro damaged the light cruiser De Ruyter with two shell hits, while Nachi damaged the heavy cruiser USS Houston with two shell hits. Haguro then switched fire to the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter at 22,000 yards, hitting her with two 20.3 cm (8 in) shells. One was a dud, but the other destroyed half of her boilers and cut her speed to 5 knots ...
The cruiser was designed to displace 3,141 long tons (3,191 t) at normal load, but was significantly overweight for unknown reasons and actually displaced 3,560 long tons (3,617 t). She had an overall length of 139.45 meters (457 ft 6 in), a beam of 12.04 meters (39 ft 6 in), and a draft of 3.86 meters (12 ft 8 in), 0.34 meters (1 ft 1 in ...
After the construction of the Tenryū-class cruisers, the drawbacks of the small cruiser concept became apparent. At the end of 1917, plans for an additional six Tenryū-class vessels, plus three new-design 7,200 ton-class scout cruisers were shelved, in place of an intermediate 5,500 ton-class vessel which could be used as both a long-range, high speed reconnaissance ship, and also as a ...