Freeware CFS2 URSS Type 7U destroyer.  Multi LOD, includes DP.  Model, texture, DP and config by Psullykeys.

Instructions:  

1)Place ship in the CFS2/Ships folder.  

2)Add the .jpg in the included INFO folder to the main CFS2 INFO folder.

3)Add the following to the mdlnames.txt found in the main CFS2 folder:

"PSK_ru7udd"=URSS Type 7U destroyer

ENJOY!

SPECIFICATIONS:
Displacement: 	1,727 tonnes (1,700 LT; 1,904 ST) (standard)
2,279 tonnes (2,243 LT; 2,512 ST) (full load)
Length: 	112.5 m (369 ft 1 in)
Beam: 	10.2 m (33 ft 6 in)
Draught: 	3.98 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion: 	2-shaft GTZA-24 geared steam turbines
4 watertube boilers
54,000 shp (40,000 kW) (trials)
Speed: 	40.28 knots (46.35 mph; 74.60 km/h) (trials)
Endurance: 	2,700 nmi (5,000 km) at 19 knots (35 km/h)
Complement: 	207 (271 wartime)
Sensors and
processing systems: 	Arktur hydrophone
Armament: 	

4  1 - 130 mm (5.1 in) B-13 guns
2  1 - 76.2 mm (3.00 in) 34-K AA guns
3  1 - 45 mm (1.8 in) 21-K AA guns
4  1 - 12.7 mm (0.50 in) DK or DShK machine guns
3  2 - 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes
58-96 mines
30 depth charges

Built: 	193642
In service: 	194063
Completed: 	18
Lost: 	        9
Retired: 	9       

HISTORY: The Soobrazitel'nyi class were destroyers built for the Soviet Navy in the early 1940s. The Soviet designation was Type 7U or Ulutshenyi (improved). The ships fought in World War II. They were modifed versions of the Gnevny class destroyers. The design was finalised in 1936 after initial disappointments with the Type 7 ships. The main changes were unit machinery (four boilers instead of three), a strengthened hull and reduced fuel capacity. The anti-aircraft guns were re-sighted to improve firing arcs.

Yakubov and Worth state that the change to unit machinery was due to an incident when HMS Hunter was stopped due to machinery damage by a mine during neutrality patrols in the Spanish Civil War. The incident reported at a meeting where Stalin was present and he ordered that the ships be redesigned with unit machinery in order to enable a ship to move in case one of the two boiler or engine rooms were incapacitated. This change in design saved the Slavniy following mine damage in 1941 but led to a considerable delay in the Soviet destroyer programme and the cancellation of 6 type 7 ships.

Fitting the extra machinery in the same hull preseted significant challenges, leading to an increase in weight, cramped accommodation and reduction in fuel capacity. These changes led soviet sailors to call the type 7u, 7 ukhudshennyi (made worse).

Later in the war electronic equipment such as radar and sonar were supplied by the Allies for these ships.

Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Collin, for his help with FSDS. Also Tango Romeo, Simonu, Crashaz and Good2be for some shipbuilding insights. I receive great support from the dirty dozen!

Legal:  Freeware, may not be included in any payware without written permission of the author.  If used in freeware, please acknowledge author. I'm not responsible for difficulties with your computer due to the use of this freeware.

Enjoy!

Psullykeys 08/31/2010