![]() Project 40 was a successor design to the late 1930s Ognevoi class: It had three twin 130 mm turrets, two quintuple torpedo tubes over a displacement of 2,890 tons standard and 4,090 tons fully loaded, 135 m x 13.5 m x 3.87 m, 2 GTZA geared steam turbines and 4-6 water-tube boilers on 2 propellers rated for 72,000, up to 81,200 shp and a top speed between 36 and 40 knots. Project 40 destroyers (1943) which inaugurated the new turret type in development at the time, adopted by postwar destroyers. They were never completed but in size and power, were something as an upper limit for Soviet destroyers at the time. Project 48 was the prewar Kiev class, successors of the Tashkent flotilla leader. Project 41 was the result of a fusion between project 48 development, never completed, and Project 40 destroyers. It was larger, faster, had a greater range, and was better armed than previous ones in many ways. This was essentially a successor of both the Ognevoi and Skoryy class, mass-produced new generation destroyer designed for a cold war context. The new first true Soviet post-war destroyer project was not proyekt 30-bis (Skoryy) class (largely a souped-up WW2 Ognevoi), but in reality project 41, the tactical and technical assignment for its development being approved on June 14, 1947, by TTZ. Project 48 and 48K, better known as the “Kiev class” ![]()
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