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The USS Colorado — a super-dreadnought — will now be the new top-tier ship for the USA’s Bluewater fleet and the first in-game ship in this nation to feature 16 inch (406 mm) guns!
USS Colorado: A Battleship for the USA at Rank VI
At a glance:
- 406 mm main battery guns!
- Strong armor protection.
- Decent anti-aircraft battery.
- Low speed and maneuverability.
- Slow rate of fire.
Colorado-class battleships were an evolution of the Tennessee-class, featuring new 406 mm main battery guns. The lead ship of the series was launched later than the second vessel in the class, USS Maryland, and was commissioned in August 1923.
Before World War II, Colorado participated in training exercises, maneuvers, and diplomatic missions. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Colorado was undergoing repairs in the U.S. Following its return to service, it patrolled the American coastline before being deployed to Pearl Harbor to counter Japanese naval operations. Colorado provided artillery support for landings at Tarawa Atoll and the Marshall Islands. After sustaining 22 hits from Japanese coastal artillery, the ship was briefly repaired in the U.S. before resuming fire support for amphibious operations.
Colorado played a key role in the Battle of Okinawa and was anchored in Tokyo Bay at the conclusion of the war.
For its service, Colorado earned seven battle stars. In 1947, it was placed in reserve, decommissioned, and ultimately scrapped in 1959.
Introducing USS Colorado!
The new top-tier ship for the U.S. Navy’s Bluewater fleet and the first American ship in the game with 406 mm guns — meet USS Colorado! Featuring upgraded anti-air weaponry, this slow but powerful warship will be coming in the Hornet’s Sting major update. Plunging into the specifics!
Featuring eight 406 mm guns in four turrets, USS Colorado has access to three types of shells, including HE and two AP rounds, both differing in penetration and explosive filler. Of these two AP shells, the Mk.3 APCBC is the most versatile as it contains over 25 kg of TNT equivalent and can penetrate up to 480 mm of armor at 10,000 m. Training your crew — in particular the gunners — on USS Colorado will be crucial, as this impressive firepower comes with a tradeoff of only being able to fire 1.5 rounds per minute on a well-trained crew.
Featuring unique secondary armament, USS Colorado boasts two types of 127 mm guns, Mk.7 cannons in casemate mounts and dual-purpose Mk.11 guns, effective against both light surface targets and aircraft. While dreadnought battleships are not typically known for strong anti-air capabilities, USS Colorado will be represented in War Thunder in its 1942 modernization. By this time, the U.S. Navy dealt with a large amount of air attacks from the Japanese, leading them to bolster their air defenses accordingly. Alongside the dual-purpose 127 mm guns, the ship is equipped with four “Chicago pianos” (quad 28 mm automatic cannons) and 14 single 20 mm Oerlikon autocannons for low-altitude threats.
Those who are familiar with the Tennessee class will notice little difference in the USS Colorado’s armor and durability. While its protection is strong, it is not well suited for close range engagements. This ship shares similar mobility characteristics with its predecessor as well — this large and heavy warship has a top speed of just 38 km/h (approximately 20.5 knots).
The majestic USS Colorado will take its rightful place at the top of the U.S. Bluewater fleet research tree in the Hornet’s Sting major update, coming very soon. Thank you for reading and keep an eye out for more news coming your way.
Please note that this vehicle’s characteristics may be changed before it is added to the game.
You can greatly speed up the research of the USS Colorado with this pack:
- USS Arkansas (BB-33) (Rank V, USA)
- Premium account for 30 days
- 3000 Golden Eagles
Comments (49)
Comments will be premoderatedWhen you gona to change mechanic in naval for crediting for destroying enemy ship? Something like in air what you did....because many times in naval when player do huge damage or majority annihilators the ship dont get any reward for that, sometimes dont even get assist kill...
In navy battles vast majority of your rewards comes not from destroying enemy ship, but from damage you cause to it. You do not need that kill or assist to get a lot of SL and RP. Imagine you will damage enemy ship and someone just pop-out and send last salvo getting the whole prize.
Stona_WT, Yes and that is problem, many times when i take a huge amount of crew members of enemy ship or destroy big amount of moduels on enemy ship and ship is sinking someone shoot that ship for the first time and get whole prize and I got nothing from that ship, not even a "kill assist", only what I got is small amount of score point for hits and destroying some modules....specially if Im using AP ammunition.
Colorado (potato beetle) my beloved ❤️
Damn boi he thicc
This makes me and 5 other naval player happy thx Gaijin
You need to work on your counting skills ;)
I logged in just to like this comment :)) No, I don't play Naval :D
406mm for US? HOLY
Don't get your hopes up. They couldn't even get the reload correct, it still has the 50 second reload of the 14 inches and not the 30 second reload it should have. the scharn is still going to dominate every game as usual as well, with how just unkillable it is.
MLGrocket, getting it in game is major. patches are done all the time
I would be fine with the 0.7 rounds per minute if it weren’t for the artificial explosion shell rooms on the barbettes… :’( - please, now that we are getting more structure and buoyancy-based ways of sinking ships, the atomic shell rooms need to finally go! These make all American BBs incredibly susceptible to just blowing up whenever their turrets/barbettes are hit once, which is just not fun :/
Great to see the US (finally) getting their first 16 inch boat. One thing though, the first funnel thats slanted is from Maryland as can be seen from this link: https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/maryland-bb-46.html Colorado: https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/colorado-bb-45.html
So does that mean this is actually Maryland? Or is it that they mixed the references together?
BleedingUranium@live, Seems to be the case they mixed up the funnel
Now, Soyuz dev blog.
Gaijin I'm begging on behalf of the State of Maryland please add the USS Maryland in some way I don't care if it's a premium event or battlepass or whatever I just really want her to be in the game
With your new damage model, that two black parts of a structure can flood an entire ship, is a) unhistorical plus b) benefits only meta ships. Yes I'm glade to see the USS Colorado, but it will suffer thanks to your bad damage system.
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