Kirov

Survivability

Health: 19,600

Citadel Protection: 7.50%

Fire and Flooding Resistance: 10%

Damage Reduction: 6%

Torpedo Damage Reduction: 7.50%

Armour

Bow: 13 mm

Stern: 13 mm

Deck: 13 mm

Belt: 50 mm

Maneuverability

Top Speed: 35.43 Knots 

Time to Full Speed: 17.15 s

Max Traverse Speed: 6 deg/s

Turn Time: 8.40 s

Main Guns (180 mm L/57 MK3 3x3)

Reload Time: 13 s

• Rate of Fire: 41.54 RPM

Range: 10.81 km

• Flight Time: 5.50 s

  • Initial Velocity: 263.34 m/s

  • Deceleration: 5.71 m/s²

Dispersion Min/Max/Vertical: 96 m / 240 m / 50.40 m

Sigma: 1 σ

HE Damage: 560

• Raw Alpha: 5,040

• Raw DPM: 23,262

Fire Chance: 6%

• Raw Alpha: 42.70%

• Raw FPM: 1.97

AP Damage: 762

• Raw Alpha: 6,858

• Raw DPM: 31,652

Citadel Chance: 8%

• Raw Alpha: 52.78%

• Raw CPM: 2.44

Citadel Damage Rate: 150%

• HE Citadel Damage: 1,120

• AP Citadel Damage: 1,524

Turret Traverse: 8 deg/s

Torpedo Tubes (533 mm 2x3)

Reload Time: 38.40 s

• Salvo Per Minute: 1.56 SPM

Range: 4.50 km

• Time Expire: 14.57 s

  • Torpedo Speed: 66.69 Knots

  • Reaction Time (at standstill): 10.53 s

Min/Max Torpedo Spread: 2.25 deg / 4.50 deg

Torpedo Damage: 3,360

• Raw Alpha: 10,080

• Raw DPM: 15,750

Flood Chance: 12%

• Raw Alpha: 31.85%

Torpedo Concealment: 1.83 km

Torpedo Traverse Speed: 20 deg/s

Anti-Aircraft Armament

Large Caliber AA Damage: 74

Large Caliber AA Range: 3.60 km

Small Caliber AA Damage: 30

Small Caliber AA Range: 1.50 km

Total AA Damage: 145

Concealment

Surface Detection: 8.70 km

After Firing Guns: 12.66 km

Air Defense Alert I x2

Large Caliber AA damage: +75% for 20 s

Small Caliber AA damage: +75% for 20 s

Before: 74 / 30

After: 130 / 53

Cooldown time: 75 s

Cruiser Modernization

Ship Hit Points: +2%

Large Caliber AA Damage: +5%

Main Battery Traverse Speed: +7%

Before: 19,600 / 74 / 8 deg/s

After: 19,992 / 78 / 8.56 deg/s

Advanced Gun Director

Main Battery Firing Range: +4%

Before: 10.81 km

After: 11.24 km

Kirov is equipped with hard-hitting 180mm guns that have excellent penetration on AP shells, which is the selling point of this ship. They can reliably penetrate armor of even heavily armored Battleships if aimed correctly. However, her guns have a long reload time, which limits her firepower. Her armor is also pratically non-existent, and will get citadelled by even some light cruisers of her tier with AP. Although Kirov possess Defensive AA, she will still struggle to defend against any form of air attack due to her extremely weak AA stats. Her torpeoes are of the classic soviet type, with a short range and reload. Overall. Kirov is a great ship for her tier and a very fun one to play, despite her flaws. She can be a very competitive ship in battles.

The Kirov-class (Project 26) cruisers were a class of six cruisers built in the late 1930s for the Soviet Navy. After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class. These were the first large ships built by the Soviets from the keel up after the Russian Civil War, and they were derived from the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli, being designed with assistance from the Italian Ansaldo company. Two ships each were deployed in the Black and Baltic Seas during World War II, while the last pair was still under construction in the Russian Far East and saw no combat during the war. The first four ships bombarded Axis troops and facilities after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. All six ships survived the war and lingered in training and other secondary roles, with three being scrapped in the early 1960s and the other three a decade later.