Supertest: Pan-European Tier IX Premium destroyer Friesland
3 min readLadies and Gentlemen, as the Update 0.8.5 is approaching, I propose you to have a look at the upcoming ships that entered the supertest. As we have to start from somewhere, let’s talk about the Friesland, a quite unique ship as it’s the very first destroyer without torpedoes.
At the end of World War 2, the Royal Netherlands Navy was severely weakened and had to be rebuilt. The initial idea was to build no less than 48 Anti-Submarine destroyers but, due to budget limitations, it was quickly scaled down.
The first ships to be built were the “Submarine Destroyer 1947” also known as the Holland-class. However, only 4 out of the 6 that were initially ordered were built. Later on, an improved version of this class would be built under the name “Submarine Destroyer 1949”. This class would be later known as the Friesland-class with in total 8 ships being built. The ships were armed with a main battery of 2 dual-purpose twin turrets with 120 mm Bofors guns. To complete the anti-air armament, the ship was also carrying 6 single Bofors 40 mm L/70 that were much more powerful than the L/60 widely used during the Second World War.
As for the anti-submarine armament, the class was equipped with 2 quads 375 mm anti-submarine mortars and 2 depth charge racks.
During the 1960s 2 ships of this class, the Utrecht and the Overijssel were equipped with 8 torpedo launchers but they were removed later on.
One thing to note, the ship is currently displayed in the Polish tech tree but it’s just a placeholder since there is no Pan-European tree yet.
Hull | Engine | Gun Fire Control System | Main battery |
Friesland |
Propulsion: 60 000 hp |
Vuurleiding Mk 10 Mod. 1 |
120 mm/50 Bofors n°10 |
| Tier | IX |
| Health | 17 600 HP |
| Main Armament | |
| Maximum Firing Range | 12.350 km |
| 120 mm/50 Bofors n°10 | 2 x 2 120 mm |
| Maximum speed | 36 kt |
| Turning Circle Radius | 620 m |
| Rudder Shift Time | 4.0 s |
| Surface Detectability | 8.18 km |
| Air Detectability | 2.9 km |
| Detectability After Firing Main Gus in Smoke | 2.97 km |
| 2 x 2 120 mm/50 Bofors n°10 | |
| Reloading Time | 1.8 s |
| 180 Degree Turn Time | 7.2 s |
| Optimal front firing angle | 35° |
| Optimal rear firing angle | 35° |
| Sigma | 2.00 sigma |
| Maximum Dispersion | 108 m |
| Shells | |
| Type of Projectile | HE |
| Alpha Damage | 1 750 HP |
| Damage | 490 HP |
| HE penetration | 19 mm |
| Explosion Size | 0.4 |
| Chance to Cause Fire | 8 % |
| Projectile Speed | 825 m/s |
| Air Drag | 0.322 |
| Projectile Mass | 23.5 |
| Projectile Krupp | 480 |
| Type of Projectile | AP |
| Alpha Damage | 2 100 HP |
| Chance to Cause Fire | -0.5 % |
| Projectile Speed | 825 m/s |
| Air Drag | 0.322 |
| Projectile Mass | 23.5 |
| Projectile Krupp | 2 400 |
| Projectile Detonator | 0.01 s |
| 2 x 2 120 mm/50 Bofors n°10 | |
| Sector range | 3.5 km – 6.0 km |
| Hit chance | 97 % |
| Sector’s damage | 580 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 2.12 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 274 |
| Flak clouds number | 6 |
| Flak cloud damage | 1820 |
| 6 x 1 40 mm/70 Bofors SP48 | |
| Sector range | 1.0 km – 3.5 km |
| Hit chance | 97 % |
| Sector’s damage | 250 |
| Sector’s damage frequency | 0.61 s |
| Sector’s damage per second | 410 |
| Flak clouds number | 8 |
| Flak cloud damage | 1120 |
| Sector reinforcement | |
| Sector reinforcement bonus | +50% |
| Sector reinforcement time | 5 s |
| Sector reinforcement shift time | 5 s |
Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | Slot 3 |
 Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 60 s |  Charges: 2 Work time: 30 s Cooldown: 240 s Smoke duration: 127 s Smoke radius: 450 m |  Charges: 3 Work time: 30 s Cooldown: 120 s |  Charges: 2 Work time: 100 s Cooldown: 180 s Ship spotting range: 5.0 km Torpedo spotting range: 3.5 km |
 Work time: 5 s Cooldown: 40 s |  Charges: 3 Work time: 30 s Cooldown: 160 s Smoke duration: 127 s Smoke radius: 450 m |  Charges: 4 Work time: 30 s Cooldown: 80 s |  Charges: 3 Work time: 100 s Cooldown: 160 s Ship spotting range: 5.0 km Torpedo spotting range: 3.5 km |
The armor
Nothing surprising here, the hull is 19 mm thick, the superstructure is 13 mm thick and finally, the turrets are 10 mm thick.
Personal opinion
Right now, I’m very hyped about this ship. The firepower that she can bring, the anti-air (best anti-air of all DDs by far), these are simply JUICY!
Now, the ship itself is a bit clumsy for a destroyer, her detection range is quite high and the lack of torpedo might be an issue but we will see. One thing for sure, this ship will be a formidable destroyer hunter (and submarine hunter when these will be introduced 
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