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The great thing in Shipbucket is that once you have drawn everything, you can always draw them again

Here is her when I did it back in 600 years ago, when there weren't even any forums yet:


That one was based on rather odd looking linedrawing that made her look more like an ice-breaker than the tender "battle Cruiser" she was supposed to be...



This one I made according to the linedrawing from an russian book...
Funny thing in Marasesti is that despite what angle I look it, I never seem to capture her true shape and idea. Also this drawing is bit speculative when it comes to underwater hull...be cautious when refering to it . The drawing I had in base did show the lines, but not details, so I have no idea wheter she has fin stabilisers or bilge keels...would be quite suprising if not, taken account of how plagued she had been on the stability issues.

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Damn hot drawing!!

I would have some challenges...

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heh yeah, I've took a peak at the italian folder

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Wow that's a big difference.

The Mărăşeşti is...interesting to say the least.

If the hull was laid down before what's his face and what's her face got the rope (and do to their rather outright monstrous, Nazi-like domestic policies that ruined the country more than anything it's hard to say it wasn't deservingly so) I'd say this was likely a vanity project. It's got an...interesting choice of armament, to say the least, including rearwards-facing Termit, at a time when such a missile was woefully obsolete (but likely the only one offered to them in export) and no credible AA-armament aside from their guns whatsoever. It's also very large for a nation with little or no patrol commitments whatsoever - far from being a "battlecruiser" but definitely the size of a large frigate or decent destroyer.

Well the Termit was not "so obsolete" as it is usually claimed to be. The P-15U (or SS-N-2C) was completely reversed system from the one that for example, Syrians tried to use in Yom Kibbur war. Marasesti actually shares the firecontroll of similar era 1241 Moylnia (Tarantul-I) class missile boats, wich had some level of talk-back datalink.

But I agree, it was one of the Chausescu's vanity projects. like most of the Romanian fleet build in the 80's.

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Probably one of the ugliest ships to come out of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. I guess against the likelyhood of being attacked by Bulgaria or Turkey it would have posed some kind of threat. Don't forget during the 80s the Turkish Navy still had a lot of surplus American WW2-era ships afloat.

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Yes, I like the redraw, and the new hull colours. And indeed an odd ship, but she has (had?) a certain rough charm IMHO. I once played with a synthesis of this ship with the County class for a Communist Australia (one I spared the Forum from )

Odd,but not very ugly though.