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| Author: | Gollevainen [ October 19th, 2016, 4:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
As I managed to buy a copy of a Midel-shpangout series about the project 66 back in summer after visiting St. Petersburg, I decided to draw it after excelent linedrawing reference. So here it is, one of the well-documented but yet lesser known Soviet never where from the post war years, Project 66 heavy cruiser. ![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0x5poa5cmn4vz0m/KRTproject66.png?dl=0)
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| Author: | Colosseum [ October 19th, 2016, 4:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
Very cool. |
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| Author: | Calis [ October 19th, 2016, 6:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
Very Interesting |
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| Author: | Colombamike [ October 19th, 2016, 6:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
Hmmm, The entire forward-bridge look somewhat similar that the French "Jean-Bart" after 1948 |
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| Author: | Hood [ October 19th, 2016, 6:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
Very nice work. That forward superstructure is very distinctive, I wonder if there would have been any structural problems with that layout? |
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| Author: | Krakatoa [ October 19th, 2016, 7:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
That is one huge cruiser, 817 feet. I would like to know the rest of the stats to that beast. Are those 8" guns or bigger? You have done a great job bringing that monster cruiser to life. |
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| Author: | odysseus1980 [ October 19th, 2016, 7:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_Main.php According to above link, the Pr.66 would have 220 mm main guns (220/65 SM-40). Wonderful job, boss, cannot wait to see more Never Built Soviet ships. |
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| Author: | KHT [ October 19th, 2016, 8:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
Stupendous drawing. Very clean and stylish. |
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| Author: | citizen lambda [ October 19th, 2016, 9:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
Great looking ship. Looks like a fairly modern AA set on it too. That weird-looking half-suspended bridge might come from a compromise between usable volume, LOS height and amount of steel required to armor all of that. Can't draw conclusions just from the drawing though. Still, very well executed from a customarily cluttered original and what I assume are patchy sources (I wouldn't have pulled that off with Sokolov only, I can tell you that). Any chance of a Projekt 24 in the future? 
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| Author: | Gollevainen [ October 20th, 2016, 4:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser |
Yeh it is quite large desing. It orginates from same studies that led to Project 82 Stalingrad class. The later outgrew from the 9 220mm gun design into 9 305mm and Soviets still believed that a 220mm gun cruiser was needed to counter the US heavy cruisers. This project and the Project 82 was cancelled after Stalin's death. |
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