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USS Pittsburgh
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Rank
AB
6.0
RB
6.0
Battle rating
USA
Game nation
Heavy cruiser
Main role
175,000
RP
Research
490,000
SL
Purchase
General information

USS Pittsburgh was the 5th member of the Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, the first US heavy cruisers to be designed after the ending of the Washington and London naval treaties. Laid down in February 1943, Pittsburgh would be commissioned in October of 1944 and would serve through the rest of World War 2, mostly serving as part of the cover screen for Task Force 58. She would gain the nickname "Longest Ship in the War" after damage from Typhoon Viper caused her bow to snap off, leaving thousands of miles in between her bow and the rest of the ship as she returned to the States for repairs. She would be decommissioned in 1947, but recommissioned in 1951 with the commencement of hostilities in Korea. Though she saw no combat in this conflict, she would patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean, finishing her last deployment in the Pacific before being decommissioned again in 1956. She would remain in the reserves until being sold for scrap in 1974.

Introduced in Update "Direct Hit", the USS Pittsburgh will be broadly similar to her classmate USS Baltimore, though coming in a later 1953 refit. She has the same primary and secondary armament, but her anti-aircraft battery has been supplanted by 3-inch autocannons firing HE-VT shells, granting greater range at the cost of a slower fire rate. Pittsburgh also notably gains aircraft tracking radar, allowing her to serve well as an escort to larger, less protected ships such as dreadnought battleships.


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Specification
Armour
Citadel 152 / 152 / 63 mm
Main fire tower 203 / 82 / 37 mm
Hull 19 mm (steel)
Superstructure 17 mm (steel)
Number of sections 8
Displacement 17,031 t
Crew 1,142 persons
Max speed
Forward 61527152 km/h
Backward 25222922 km/h
Primary armament
3 × Turret — 3 × 8 inch/55 Mark 12 cannon
Ammunition 1,350 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
19.7 → 15.2 s
Vertical guidance -10 / 41°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 5.34.55.34.5 °/s
Vertical 10.6910.69 °/s

AmmunitionTypeArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
10 m100 m500 m1000 m1500 m2000 m
Common11110087787162
HE616161616161
SP Common131119103928473
APCBC392356311279256227
Secondary armament
6 × Turret — 2 × 5 inch/38 Mk.12 cannon, mount Mk.32
Ammunition 4,320 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
3.6 → 2.8 s
Vertical guidance -15 / 85°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 2521.32521.3 °/s
Vertical 1512.81512.8 °/s

AmmunitionTypeArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
10 m100 m500 m1000 m1500 m2000 m
HE363636363636
SP Common152132110968675
HE-VT363636363636
Anti-aircraft armament
10 × Turret — 2 × 3 inch/50 Mk.33 cannon
Ammunition 30,000 rounds
Belt capacity 150 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
13 → 10 s
Fire rate 50 shots/min
Vertical guidance -8 / 85°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 2420.42420.4 °/s
Vertical 3025.53025.5 °/s

AmmunitionTypeArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
10 m100 m500 m1000 m1500 m2000 m
HE-VT777777
Economy
Repair cost Basic → Reference
AB 13,238 → 17,170 SL
RB 13,205 → 17,127 SL
Crew training 140,000 SL
Experts 670,000 SL
Aces 1,500 GE
Research Aces 490,000 RP
Reward multiplier AB / RB
450 / 600 % SL
190 % RP
Total cost of modifications 173,000 RP
270,000 SL
Talisman cost 2,000 GE

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Seakeeping
Unsinkability
Firepower
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