![]() Line drawings to different scales of the never-completed Kiev-class destroyers; Project 48 (top), Project 48-K (bottom)
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Class overview | |
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Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Tashkent class |
Succeeded by | None |
Built | 1939–1941 |
Planned | 14 |
Completed | 0 |
Cancelled | 11 |
Scrapped | 3 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer leader |
Displacement | |
Length | 127.8 m (419 ft 3 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 11.7 m (38 ft 5 in) |
Draft | 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 3 shafts; 3 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 42 knots (78 km/h; 48 mph) |
Range | 4,100 nmi (7,600 km; 4,700 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 264 |
Armament |
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The Kiev class (Russian: Киев) (officially designated as Project 48) was designed in 1939 for the Soviet Navy as a smaller class of destroyer leaders after the cancellation of the Tashkent-class ships that had been intended to be built in the Soviet Union. Only three ships were begun; one was cancelled and scrapped before the Axis invasion in mid-1941 and construction of the other two was suspended during the war. The navy considered completing them under a new Project 48-K configuration afterwards, but decided against that as they would have been competing against a more modern design that lacked the stability problems that the 48-K design would have had. The Soviets either scrapped them or used them as targets.
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