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The Admiral Graf Spee was one of the most famous German naval warships of
World War II, along with the Bismarck. Her size was limited to that of a cruiser
by the Treaty of Versailles, but she was as heavily armed as a small battleship
due to innovative weight-saving techniques employed in her construction. She was
sent to the Atlantic Ocean as a commerce raider in 1939, where she sank nine
Allied merchant ships. Numerous British hunting groups were assigned to find
her, with three British ships finally tracking her down in December 1939. The
Battle of the River Plate ensued, during which the Graf Spee was damaged. She
docked for repairs in the neutral port of Montevideo, but was forced by
international law to leave within 72 hours. Faced with what he believed to be
overwhelming odds, the captain scuttled his ship rather than risk the lives of
his crew.
Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class cruiser. Launched in 1934, she was
named after the World War I Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee who died, along
with two of his sons, in the first Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December
1914. She was the second vessel to be named after him, the first being the
uncompleted World War I German battle cruiser SMS Graf Spee. The launching took
place on 30 June 2024 with Admiral Erich Raeder delivering a pre-launch speech,
and the christening performed by Grafin Huberta von Spee, daughter of the late
Vice Admiral von Spee. Before Admiral Graf Spee was given her official name, she
was referred to as Panzerschiff C and Ersatz Braunschweig, as she would be
replacing the old battleship Braunschweig in the fleet inventory. She cost 82
million Reichsmark to build.
After World War I, replacement capital ships for the German Navy were limited by
the Treaty of Versailles to 10,000 tons and 11 inch (280 mm) guns. Electric arc
welding was used in her construction instead of conventional rivets, thereby
saving considerable weight by not requiring overlapping steel plates.
Furthermore, Graf Spee’s eight main engines used diesel fuel, an unconventional
configuration at the time that also contributed to weight saving. The weight
saving allowed her carry a main gun of the same calibre as a battleship, while
remaining near the displacement limit of the Treaty of Versailles., hence the
classification by the British of her and her two sisters, Deutschland (later
renamed Lützow) and Admiral Scheer, as pocket battleships. A year after the Graf
Spee's loss, her sisters were reclassified as heavy cruisers.
The ship has moving parts ie.: all cannon turrets (horizontally and vertically),
torpedo launchers, fire console, switches, gates, doors and many more.
The ship has custom effects (water and land explosion, gunshots) and sounds.
Features:
Total dimensions: (L,W,H m.) --------------------- 186 , 21.6 , 27
Displacement: ------------------------------------------- 12100 tons (standard),
16023 tons (full)
Draft: -------------------------------------------------------- 7.4 m.
Fuel: -------------------------------------------------------- 2 x 2024 p
Weaponry: ----------------------------------------------- 6 x 283 mm MK VII, 8 x
150 mm, 6 x 88 mm 8 MK37 mm, 10 x 20 mm, 8 torpedoes 533 mm.
Equipment: ---------------------------------------------- 2 aircraft Arado 196 -
here 1 pc.
Moving parts: ------------------------------------------- rudder, throttle,
gauges, switches, doors, flags, gangways, cannon turrets, rangefinders, fire
console, search reflectors, torpedo launchers, torpedoes
Controlled: ----------------------------------------------- speed, reverse
engine, turns, lights, anchor drop and rise, some doors, gangways, turrets, fire
control, torpedo launchers, torpedoes, parade flags
Panel: ----------------------------------------------------- virtual cockpit - 3
fire consoles + whole ship
Engine: --------------------------------------------------- 8 Diesel engines
52000 KM
Speed max: --------------------------------------------- 28 Knots
Starter: --------------------------------------------------- 2x one touch
starter
Model: ---------------------------------------------------- 2 models in five
variants, 5 x lite version, 5 x pro version For FSX. |