World of Warships Supertest: US Cruiser USS Salem
2 min readUSS Salem (CA-139) is one of three Des Moines-class heavy cruisers completed for the United States Navy shortly after World War II. Commissioned in 1949, she was the world’s last heavy cruiser to enter service and the only one still in existence. She was decommissioned in 1959, after serving in the Atlantic and Mediterranean

The image and information was leaked by mistake on World of Warships VK page. Unfortunately, the readers who saw it, didn’t save the image so we could have a better resolution. Some Reddit topics say this will be a Tier IX warship, but according to the stats in the Russian page, it will be available at Tier X.
Confirmed it will be a Tier X warship, but no details if this will be a Premium or Regular warship.
All stats are listed without crew and upgrade modifiers, and are subject to change before the final release.
*Article update with high resolution picture on 06/11/2017.
Source: World of Warships VK
Initial Stats
Tier | 10 |
Hitpoints | 49,700 |
Plating | 25 mm |
Belt | 152 mm |
Main battery | 3×3 203mm |
Firing range | 15.8 km |
HE damage | 2,800 |
AP damage | 5,000 |
Reload time | 5.5 s |
180 degree turn time | 30 s |
Maximum dispersion | 142 m |
HE initial velocity | 823 m/s |
AP initial velocity | 762 m/s |
Sigma | 2.0 ? |
Maximum speed | 33 kt |
Turning circle radius | 770 m |
Rudder shift time | 8.6 s |
Surface detectability | 13.4 km |
Air detectability | 9.9 km |
Detectability after firing in Smoke | 8.2 km |
it seems some kind of clan wars rewards ala WoT ?
It seems that Wargaming is running out of new ships so they have to resort to launching sister ships by copy pasting existing ships in order to introduce “new” ships..
To be fair, there isn’t a lot of ship designs out there to introduce to the game. So this will happen more often as more ship are introduced.
Asashio, Super Akizuki? Maybe finish the IJN gunboat line first… Ooyodo, Agano, Tone? Hiei? Hiyou? Akagi? Chitose? Or balance the old, IJN and USN, lines to be on par with KM, RN and Soviets for competitive. Fix IJN torps to not be ****?
Well the IJN Tone can’t be in the game because of WG said “Can’t balannced it” Wat? U WOT WG