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Kerch
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Rank
AB
3.3
RB
3.3
Battle rating
USSR
Game nation
Destroyer
Main role
250
GE
Purchase
Premium vehicle
Status
Russian Empire
Origin country
General information

The Kerch (destroyer) was a Fidonisy-class destroyer built for Imperial Russian Navy. The Fidonisy-class was improvement of previous Derzky-class destroyers. Kerch was laid down on 29th October 1915 and comissioned on 27th June 1917. After the Russian revolution, she joined the Bolsheviks and conducted several shore bombardments along the Crimea. On 29th April 1918, she sailed to Novorossiysk to avoid capture by advancing German forces. On 18th June, she scuttled Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship Svobodnaya Rossiya and Kerch´s sister, Fidonisy to avoid being handed over to Germans as a result of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Kerch herself was then scuttled for same reason off the harbour entrance at Tuapse. In 1929 the Soviets tried to refloat her, but the wreck broke apart. In 1932 they raised her engine room and used them as source of energy in the Tuapse power plant.

Kerch was introduced in Update "New Power" as a GE premium. As a destroyer from the Imperial era, Kerch is very similar to the reserve Frunze, mainly differing in its secondary weapons, where it has a somewhat more usable secondary battery but far worse torpedoes.


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Specification
Armour
Main fire tower 38 / 0 / 0 mm
Hull 16 mm (steel)
Superstructure 4 mm (steel)
Number of sections 7
Displacement 1,700 t
Crew 168 persons
Max speed
Forward 59517253 km/h
Backward 22192619 km/h
Primary armament
4 × Turret — 102 mm/60 Pattern 1911 naval gun
Ammunition 640 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
6.5 → 5 s
Vertical guidance -10 / 30°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 54.354.3 °/s
Vertical 54.354.3 °/s

AmmunitionTypeArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
10 m100 m500 m1000 m1500 m2000 m
HE524436312826
Shrapnel666666
Secondary armament
2 × Turret — 40 mm 2pdr QF Mk.IIc automatic cannon
Ammunition 4,480 rounds
Belt capacity 56 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
7.8 → 6 s
Fire rate 200 shots/min
Vertical guidance -5 / 80°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 40344034 °/s
Vertical 2521.32521.3 °/s

BeltBelt fillingArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
10 m100 m500 m1000 m1500 m2000 m
HEF/AP-T/HEF/AP-T605750433834
HEF/HEF/HEF/AP-T605750433834
AP-T/AP-T/AP-T/HEF605750433834
Anti-aircraft armament
2 × Turret — 7.62 mm Maxim machine gun
Ammunition 3,000 rounds
Belt capacity 1,000 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
26 → 20 s
Fire rate 600 shots/min
Vertical guidance -10 / 35°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 7563.87563.8 °/s
Vertical 7563.87563.8 °/s

BeltBelt fillingArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
10 m100 m500 m1000 m1500 m2000 m
AI/AP-I/AP-I/AP-I/T13127320
Additional armament
Setup 1 14 × 450 mm wet-heater torpedo pattern 1910
Economy
Repair cost
AB 309 SL
RB 358 SL
Crew training 150 SL
Experts 145,000 SL
Aces 20 GE
Research Aces 1,000 RP
Reward multiplier AB / RB
2 x (40 / 65) % SL
2 x 75 % RP
Total cost of modifications 5,160 RP
520 SL

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