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Boevoi

Also called: 博埃瓦 · Боевой · Bojewoi Beta

U.S.S.R. · Tier V · Destroyer · Tech Tree: Generalist Destroyers

Gunboat destroyerDamage from sustained main-battery pressure, not torpedo dumps.

Playstyle

Hold mid-cap distance and lean into gunboat trades from cover where the peer destroyer cannot match your fires-per-minute
Avoid: Trading guns in open water against peer DDs

Key characteristics

Long torps (8 km)Strong AASmokeEngine BoostLong heal windowSluggish rudder

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Playstyle

Overview

Boevoi is a Tier V Soviet gunboat destroyer: her damage comes from sustained main battery pressure on caps and open-water trades. Torpedoes are a secondary threat for closing lanes, not her main damage. Her 130mm guns reload in 5 s, so the damage comes from staying in the trade rather than from any one salvo. AA (156 AA DPS at 3.5 km) is heavy enough to make her the team's air-defense anchor on top of the lead role; CV strikes route around her, not through. Standout traits: best DCP duration in T5 DDs (10 s) and fast HE shells (6 s).

Positioning

Hold mid-cap distance and lean into gunboat trades from cover where the peer destroyer cannot match your fires-per-minute. Avoid open-water duels with ships running smoke or radar; the torpedoes are a closer, not the plan, so gunfire from cover wins more than from blue water. Concretely: 10.6 km of reach against 6.9 km of detection leaves about 3.7 km in which you can shoot before the answer arrives. Your guns lose penetration at range, so aim AP at broadsides you can still citadel and put HE into superstructures and upper-hull sections, rather than the bow-in or belt armor your shells bounce and shatter on. Shooting from the cloud gives you away at 2.7 km, and a destroyer here is spotted at about 6.5 km, so you see it coming with roughly 3.8 km to spare. Vision is mutual: past the 2 km guaranteed ring you cannot see out either, and nothing in her kit sees through it, so pop the smoke where someone is already lighting the enemy or you will sit in it with nothing to shoot. Enemy sonar (about 4 km) and radar (about 8.1 km) read straight in regardless. With 4.8 s on the rudder she starts turning late, so the angle has to be set before you are shot at.

Potato Avoidance

Trading guns in open water against peer DDs

Your damage is sustained main-battery pressure from cover (the torpedoes are a secondary threat), so open-water duels just stack incoming HE on you while you fire back. You are visible from 6.9 km with 15,500 HP to spend, so the second ship to join the trade decides it.

Signature Traits

Engine Boost

+8% speed (about +3 kt), 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable lifts top speed enough to open or close a gap deliberately, though not to outrun a committed chase.

Top-tier AA ↗

156 AA DPS, best of T5 DDs (median 95).

Long heal window ↗

28 s Repair Party duration, best of T5 DDs. Restores HP for longer per activation.

Long DCP window ↗

10 s Damage Control duration, best of T5 DDs. Stays fire / flood immune longer per activation.

Sluggish rudder ↗

4.8 s rudder shift, worst of T5 DDs. Hard to dodge incoming AP; lean on island cover.

Easily spotted ↗

6.9 km surface detect, bottom decile of T5 DDs. Visible before you can react; position early.

Acquisition

How to get Boevoi

Boevoi is available in the Generalist Destroyers branch of the U.S.S.R. Tech Tree for 2,400,000 credits after researching it in the branch. Known module upgrades cost up to 600,000 credits. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.

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U.S.S.R. Tech Tree

Boevoi sits in the Generalist Destroyers branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full U.S.S.R. tree.

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Best listed chance for this ship

Soviet Destroyer Big Crate 5% V Boevoi* Archived · Soviet Destroyer Big Crate
Soviet Destroyer Crate 1.5% V Boevoi* Archived · Soviet Destroyer Crate

Official WG availability sources

Official WoWS Legends container odds Containers Official container drop rows linked below include direct and nested effective ship odds.

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Soviet Destroyer Big Crate 5% · V Boevoi*
Soviet Destroyer Crate 1.5% · V Boevoi*

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Cohort position

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Where Boevoi sits among Tier V DDs (24 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.

BestAA DPS156 (1 of 2 tied) BestAA threat409 (1/25) Top 10%Torpedo reload60 s (3/25) Top 25%Hit points15,500 HP (6/25) Top 25%Main battery caliber130 mm (7/25) Top 25%Engine power52,200 hp (6/25) Top 25%Deck armor16 mm (6/21) Bottom 25%Displacement2,763 t (20/25) Bottom 10%Concealment6.9 km (24/25) WorstSmoke fire bloom2.69 km (25/25) WorstAir detection3.54 km (25/25) WorstRudder shift4.8 s (25/25) WorstRepair heal rate0.5 %/s (1 of 2 tied)

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Not standouts for Boevoi -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.

Max speed37 kt(9/25) Turning circle610 m(15/25) Traverse-to-turn ratio5.43 ×(9/25) Main battery range10.58 km(8/25) Main battery reload5 s(11/25) HE shell damage1,900(8/25) HE fire chance8%(11/25) Fires per minute3.84(11/25) HE DPM91,200(9/25) AP shell damage2,500(11/22) AP DPM120,000(13/22) Main dispersion94.4 m(19/25) AP velocity870 m/s(9/22) HE velocity870 m/s(9/25) Acceleration17.9 s(19/25) AP arming threshold22 mm(15/22) Turn-speed retention85.6 hp/m(8/25) Power-to-weight18.89 hp/t(17/25) AP pen at 10 km73 mm(9/23) Effective HE DPM (incl. fire)120,120(9/25) AA range3.5 km(9/25) Torpedo range8.04 km(9/25) Torpedo damage≈14,000(9/25) Torpedo speed65 kt(9/25) Torpedo reaction time8 s(19/25) Max armor16 mm(15/25) NormAP fuse timer0.01 s(17 of 22 tied at this value) NormAP ricochet start45°(21 of 22 tied at this value) NormAP auto-bounce angle60°(21 of 22 tied at this value) NormTurn speed retained81%(23 of 25 tied at this value) NormCitadel belt16 mm(24 of 25 tied at this value) NormBow armor16 mm(24 of 25 tied at this value) NormStern armor16 mm(24 of 25 tied at this value)

Peers in this cohort

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Stats & specs

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Survivability

Hit PointsInitial: 12,600 → 15,500

Displacement2,763 t

Hull dimensions

Length x beam at the waterline, with the hull's draft where the client carries one. Ships whose client entry holds only the 260 x 20 m placeholder use a curated real-world figure instead, and any ship we have no trustworthy size for omits this row rather than print the placeholder. Length matters when dodging torpedoes; beam and draft shape how hard the ship is to hit.

115.2 x 11.6 m (measured from the ship model)

Armor range6–16 mm

Plate armor thicknesses6, 10, 13, 15, 16 mm

Armor material/layer entries28

Fire resistance

Does not reduce the damage a burning fire does per second: replay-measured burn ticks run at the full rate on every ship. By elimination it lowers how often hits set you on fire; ignition-rate replay data is consistent with that but too confounded by attacker mix to measure the reduction directly.

Initial: 20% → 23.3%

Fire duration30 s

Fire damage

Each fire ticks 0.3% of max HP per second for the full 30 s, so one unattended fire burns 9% of the pool (1,395 HP on this ship). 4 fire points can burn at once. Verified against measured burn ticks in replay data.

0.3% of HP per second

Flood duration40 s

Flood damage

A flood ticks 0.25% of max HP per second for the 40 s duration, so one unattended flood costs 10% of the pool (1,550 HP on this ship). Verified against measured flood ticks in replay data.

0.25% of HP per second

Torp Reduction

Reduces torpedo hit damage. Replay data shows no effect on floods: flood ticks run at the full rate and flood frequency does not decline with protection.

Magazine HP

Per-turret powder-magazine HP, a separate pool from the ship's. Penetrating hits wear it down and the turret is likelier to be knocked out as it falls, so a larger pool keeps the guns firing through punishment that silences a peer's.

7,800

Steering gear HP

Durability of the steering gears. As this pool drops, hits are likelier to jam the rudder; unlike most modules the steering can be knocked out and repaired but is never permanently destroyed.

4,700

Effective HP

Base 15,500 HP plus everything Repair Party can restore: 0.5%/s x 28 s = 2,170 HP per charge, x2 charges = 4,340 HP. Ceiling, not a prediction: a charge only restores damage actually taken, and only the regeneratable share of it. Across 1,826 players in our replay corpus the median ship realized about half of this, mostly because half the charges go unspent — when Repair Party IS pressed it returns ~97% of the per-charge figure above.

19,840

Repairable: penetration50%

Repairable: steering gear50%

Main Battery

ModuleArtillery: 130 mm/50 B-2LM

Mounts / barrels2 mounts / 4 barrels

Reload time5 s

Firing range (base)9.6 km

Firing range (top fire control)10.6 km

Turret traverse9.7 °/s

Turret armor13 mm

Turret traverse arcs

How far each mount can train, in degrees to either side of the mount's own facing, read from in-game data. A rear turret with ±150° leaves a 60° blind wedge over the bow; one-sided arcs are wing mounts that cover a single side. The data does not say which way each mount faces, so the arcs are listed per mount without bow/stern angles.

±148°, ±154°

Guns to bear

How far off the bow (or stern) the ship must angle before every main turret can fire: the widest blind wedge among the rear-facing (or forward-facing) mounts, from each mount's trainable arc. Mount facing is inferred from turret stations and verified against known layouts, including Izumo's aft-facing forward turret.

32° off bow / 26° off stern

See the firing-arcs diagram ↓

HE fire DPM vs T5 BB28920

Effective HE DPM vs T5 BB120120

Shell Grouping (σ)2

Max Horiz Disp

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model:

σ_{H} = (\frac{R}{30} \cdot \frac{idealRadius - minRadius}{idealDistance} + minRadius) \cdot 30

= (\frac{10583.1}{30} \cdot \frac{8 - 0.5}{1000} + 0.5) \cdot 30 = 94.4 m

94.4 m at 10.6 km

Max Vert Disp

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:

σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax

= 94.4 \cdot 0.6 = 56.6 m

56.6 m at 10.6 km

Med Horiz Disp

50%-hit horizontal radius:

σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 94.4 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 28.3 m

28.3 m at 10.6 km

Med Vert Disp

50%-hit vertical radius:

σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}

= 56.6 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 17 m

17 m at 10.6 km

Turret turn time

180 degrees / 9.7 deg/s traverse speed = 18.6 s.

18.6 s

Shells/min

4 broadside guns x 60 / 5 s base reload = 48.

HE shells

HE Damage1,900

HE Velocity870 m/s

Fire Chance8%

HE penetration

22 mm ≈ 130 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

22 mm

HE full-salvo alpha

1,900 HE damage x 4 broadside guns = 7,600.

7,600

HE DPM

7,600 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5 s base reload = 91,200.

91,200

Fires/min

48 shells/min x 8% fire chance = 3.84.

3.84

AP shells

AP Damage2,500

AP Velocity870 m/s

Min Ricochet45 deg

Guaranteed Ricochet60 deg

Fuse Timer0.01 s

Fuse Threshold22 mm

AP overmatch

floor(130 mm caliber / 14.3) = 9 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

9 mm

AP Pen Close

Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity:

P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v_{0}^{1.38}

= 10^{- 7} \cdot 1615 \cdot {33.5}^{0.69} \cdot {0.13}^{- 1.07} \cdot 870^{1.38} = 184.1 mm

. Matches the in-game spec card.

184.1 mm point-blank

AP Pen Far

Same formula at the ship's max firing range (10.6 km), where the shell has slowed to 428.6 m/s:

P = 10^{- 7} \cdot 1615 \cdot {33.5}^{0.69} \cdot {0.13}^{- 1.07} \cdot {428.6}^{1.38} = 69.3 mm

69.3 mm at 10.6 km

AP full-salvo alpha

2,500 AP damage x 4 broadside guns = 10,000.

10,000

AP DPM

10,000 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5 s base reload = 120,000.

120,000

AP AOE Radius

AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.

Torpedoes

ModuleTorpedoes: 533 mm Triple 1-N

Launchers / tubes2 launchers × 3 tubes = 6 tubes

Reload time

Base reload of the top torpedo module (all-upgrades configuration); the stock module reloads in 70 s. In-game port tooltips additionally fold in your installed modernizations and commander effects - e.g. Torpedo Launchers Mod. 3 alone is x0.85:

60 \times 0.85 = 51

60 s

Projectile speed

Speed of the top torpedo module (all-upgrades configuration, 65 kt); the stock torpedo module runs 60 kt. Site stats assume the full-upgrades fit unless a row shows a stock → top pair.

65 kt

Range8.04 km

Maximum simulated damage

Estimate of WG's in-game value; matches the in-game port screen within ±5%. Saturation: most targets only intersect one hull section, so the sim transfers ~1/3 of the warhead alpha (2/3 when the warhead blast >= 5000 and the burst reaches a second section). For this ship:

D_{sim} = α \cdot c = 42, 000 \cdot 0.333 = 14, 000

≈ 14,000

Maximum damage (ammunition)

The ammunition card's 'Maximum Damage' stat, exact: warhead alpha / 3 plus the blast addend. This is the per-torpedo number most references quote; the 'Maximum simulated damage' row above is WG's separate geometry-sim stat from the launcher spec panel.

15,100

Torpedo detectability1.4 km

Reaction time

How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its detectability range (lower means less warning):

t_{react} = \frac{1.4 km}{65 kt \times 2.6855} = 8 s

. The 2.6855 m/s-per-knot game-speed factor is calibrated from in-game measurement; the community's traditional 2.6 reads about 3% slower. Base value; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower it further. Community torpedo-reaction calculator by u/LorenDovah and u/The_ColorOutofSpace.

8 s

Flooding chance

Read straight from the game's own data: this torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 2.5 per hit, shown as

2.5 \times 100 = 250 %

. Torpedo flood values above 100% are normal: in battle the base chance is scaled down by the target's torpedo protection (the Torp Reduction stat on its Survivability card) and any flood-resistance modifiers, so a value above 100% keeps flooding likely even through partial protection. Not shown on the in-game port screen.

250%

Torpedo launcher traverse25 °/s

Torp Turn

Time to rotate the launchers 180 deg:

t_{turn} = \frac{180 °}{25 ° / s} = 7.2 s

7.2 s

Torp Arming205 m

Per-side salvo damage

One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 14,000 = 84,000.

84,000

AA Defense

AA mount pointsInitial: 5 → 11

Maximum AA range

Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 3.5 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.

3.5 km

12.7 mm DShKInitial: 12.7 mm DShKM-2B (4×2) → 12.7 mm DShK (4×1)

76 mm 39-K1×2 76mm

37 mm 70-K (upgraded hull only)6×1 37mm

Guns76 mm 39-K

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 4 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 1 hit probability = 14 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Initial: 21 → 14

Range3.5 km

Guns37 mm 70-K

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 27 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 1 hit probability = 94 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Range3.2 km

Total DPS in Aura

Far 14 + Medium 94 = 108

108

Guns12.7 mm DShK

Continuous DPS

Effective DPS: 14 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.95 hit probability = 47 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.

Initial: 100 → 47

Range1.2 km

Total DPS in Aura

Far 14 + Medium 94 + Near 47 = 155

155

See the AA layers diagram ↓

Maneuverability

Engine power52,200 hp

Maximum speed37 kt

Turning circle radius610 m

Rudder shift time4.8 s

Engine power-boost threshold7 kt

Engine spool-up time7.7 s

Reverse spool-up time3.8 s

Reverse speed

top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 37 / 4 + 4.9 = 14.2 kt. The community reverse-speed model from the WoWs ShipBuilder project, the same source as the acceleration model on this card. Base value; speed modifiers scale it. Not shown on the in-game card.

14.2 kt

Crash stop

Seconds from top speed to a dead stop after ordering full reverse: reverse power winds in over the reverse spool-up while water drag does most of the braking. Same community-model simulation as the acceleration times, using the ship's own reverse-power ratio from in-game data. The full curve is on the acceleration chart.

15.3 s

Engine boost threshold (reverse)

Speed below which the engine's built-in power boost applies in reverse. Matches the in-game maneuverability card's reverse threshold (Vampire II reads 10.5 here and the card shows 11; the card rounds half up).

11.1 kt

Acceleration 0-90%

Time to reach 90% of top speed (33.3 kt of 37 kt), from our in-house acceleration model.

17.9 s

Acceleration 0-99%

Time to reach 99% of top speed (36.6 kt of 37 kt). 99% rather than 100% because true top speed is asymptotic (thrust meets drag), so the last fraction of a knot is never quite gained.

30.5 s

Traverse-to-turn ratio

How many degrees the turret can swing for each degree the hull turns. Turn rate

ω_{hull} = \frac{180}{π} \cdot \frac{V_{max} (m/s)}{R_{turn}} = \frac{180}{π} \cdot \frac{37.0 \cdot 0.5144}{610} = 1.79 ° / s

, so

ratio = \frac{ω_{turret}}{ω_{hull}} = \frac{9.7}{1.79} = 5.4 \times

. Below 5 the turrets drag in a turning fight; 25+ keeps up with any rudder.

5.4× slow

See the full acceleration curve ↓

Concealment

Detectability by sea6.9 km

Detectability by air3.54 km

Smoke firing penalty2.69 km

Detect when firing (sea)

Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach. Matches the in-game 'Detect Firing Sea' value on all 8 unmodified captures, and range-modified captures track the modified range.

10.58 km

Detect when firing (air)

Air detectability plus the gun-firing bloom (2.6 km, which tracks main-battery caliber x 0.020). Matches the in-game 'Detect Firing Air' value on every captured ship.

6.14 km

Detect when on fire (sea)

Base sea detectability + 2.0 km while burning; matches the in-game 'Detect Fire Sea' value on every captured ship.

8.9 km

Detect when on fire (air)

Base air detectability + 3.0 km while burning; matches the in-game 'Detect Fire Air' value on every captured ship.

6.54 km

Guaranteed Detect2 km

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Consumables

Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 10 s active

Repair Party2 charges · 80 s reload · 28 s active · 2,170 HP (14% of max HP) total heal (per charge)
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Heal per second (0.5%) x effective active time (28 s) = up to 14% of max HP restored per charge.
· 4,340 HP (28% of max HP) total heal (all charges)
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14% per charge x 2 charges = up to 28% of max HP if the whole Repair Party loadout is used.
· 78 HP/s (0.5% of max HP) heal per second
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0.5% of max HP (15,500 HP) per second = 78 HP/s. WoWS heals a flat percent of MAX HP each second, so this rate holds at any health level.

Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +8% speed bonus

Smoke Generator2 charges · 240 s reload · 20 s emit / 81 s cloud active · 450 m radius

Module options (3)

Stats above use the fully-upgraded modules. These are the research-tree alternatives; trade-offs are flagged.

HullUpgrade

Hit points12,600 → 15,500
Rudder shift8.7 → 6.2 s
AA mounts5 → 11
Close-range AA DPS36 → 45

Fire controlUpgrade

Main battery range9,621 → 10583.1 m

TorpedoesUpgrade

Range6.03 → 8.04 km
Reload70 → 60 s
Alpha damage40,200 → 42,000
Display damage13,400 → 14,000
Speed60 → 65 kt

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Numbers the spec table cannot show directly: alpha-strike math, DPM, dispersion, AP penetration. Click the formula chip on any row to reveal how it is calculated.

Main battery formulas

Shell Grouping (σ)2

Max Horiz Disp94.4 m at 10.6 km

Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model:  $σ_{H} = (\frac{R}{30} \cdot \frac{idealRadius - minRadius}{idealDistance} + minRadius) \cdot 30$   $= (\frac{10583.1}{30} \cdot \frac{8 - 0.5}{1000} + 0.5) \cdot 30 = 94.4 m$

Shell scatter width @ 5 km52.5 m

Horizontal scatter at a fixed 5 km, from the same verified dispersion model as the rows below - a knife-fight-range anchor comparable across ships.

Shell scatter width @ 10 km90 m

How wide your shells scatter at 10 km, from the same dispersion model as the max-range figure above. Picking a fixed range makes this number directly comparable from ship to ship: max-range dispersion makes a longer-range gun look worse even when it's tighter at any common range. The interactive Dispersion tab on the Charts card plots the full curve from 0 to max range.

Max Vert Disp56.6 m at 10.6 km

Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot radiusOnMax$ $= 94.4 \cdot 0.6 = 56.6 m$

Shell scatter height @ 10 km53 m

How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data:  $radiusOnZero = 0.2$  at 0 m,  $radiusOnDelim = 0.5$  at  $delim \cdot R_{m a x} = 0.5 \cdot 10583.1 = 5292$  m, and  $radiusOnMax = 0.6$  at 10583.1 m. Above the kink:  $k = 0.5 + (0.6 - 0.5) \cdot \frac{10000 - 5292}{10583.1 - 5292} = 0.589$ , so  $σ_{V} = σ_{H} \cdot k = 90 \cdot 0.589 = 53 m$ .

Med Horiz Disp28.3 m at 10.6 km

50%-hit horizontal radius: $σ_{H, 50} = σ_{H} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 94.4 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 28.3 m$

Med Vert Disp17 m at 10.6 km

50%-hit vertical radius: $σ_{V, 50} = σ_{V} \cdot \frac{0.6}{σ}$ $= 56.6 \cdot \frac{0.6}{2} = 17 m$

Dispersion familyDD Disp.

Standard destroyer dispersion baseline.

AP Pen Close184.1 mm point-blank

Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity:  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v_{0}^{1.38}$   $= 10^{- 7} \cdot 1615 \cdot {33.5}^{0.69} \cdot {0.13}^{- 1.07} \cdot 870^{1.38} = 184.1 mm$ . Matches the in-game spec card.

AP Pen Far69.3 mm at 10.6 km

Same formula at the ship's max firing range (10.6 km), where the shell has slowed to 428.6 m/s:  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot 1615 \cdot {33.5}^{0.69} \cdot {0.13}^{- 1.07} \cdot {428.6}^{1.38} = 69.3 mm$ .

AP pen 5 km114 mm

AP penetration at a fixed 5 km, read off the same PC-validated ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the canonical community AP formula  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$ . Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.

AP pen 10 km73 mm

AP penetration at a fixed 10 km, read off the same PC-validated ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the canonical community AP formula  $P = 10^{- 7} \cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{- 1.07} \cdot v^{1.38}$ . Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.

AP flight time @ 10 km5.98 s

How long an AP shell takes to reach a target at a fixed 10 km, from the same numerically integrated trajectory the Charts card plots. The shell slows under quadratic air drag,  $a_{drag} = k ρ v^{2}$ , where  $ρ$  is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and  $k$  bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.2857 \cdot {0.13}^{2}}{8 \cdot 33.5} = 5.66 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 870 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77: the game clock runs faster than real time, and that factor was measured against stopwatch runs in the Training Room. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.

HE flight time @ 10 km5.99 s

How long an HE shell takes to reach a target at a fixed 10 km, from the same numerically integrated trajectory the Charts card plots. The shell slows under quadratic air drag,  $a_{drag} = k ρ v^{2}$ , where  $ρ$  is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and  $k$  bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass:  $k = \frac{π C_{d} d^{2}}{8 m} = \frac{π \cdot 0.2857 \cdot {0.13}^{2}}{8 \cdot 33.4} = 5.68 \times 10^{- 5}$ . That runs from a 870 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77: the game clock runs faster than real time, and that factor was measured against stopwatch runs in the Training Room. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.

HE penetration22 mm

22 mm ≈ 130 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).

AP overmatch9 mm

floor(130 mm caliber / 14.3) = 9 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).

AP AOE Radius9

AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.

Broadside guns used for alpha4

All 4 barrels bear on the broadside.

Turret turn time18.6 s

180 degrees / 9.7 deg/s traverse speed = 18.6 s.

HE full-salvo alpha7,600

1,900 HE damage x 4 broadside guns = 7,600.

AP full-salvo alpha10,000

2,500 AP damage x 4 broadside guns = 10,000.

HE DPM91,200

7,600 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5 s base reload = 91,200.

AP DPM120,000

10,000 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5 s base reload = 120,000.

Shells/min48

4 broadside guns x 60 / 5 s base reload = 48.

Fires/min3.84

48 shells/min x 8% fire chance = 3.84.

Torpedoes

Torpedo detectability1.4 km

Estimated torpedo reaction time8 s

detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 game-speed factor, m/s per knot, calibrated from in-game measurement; the community's traditional 2.6 reads about 3% slower).

Torpedo speed65 kt

Travel time to max range46.1 s

range / (speed kt x 2.6855 game-speed factor, m/s per knot, calibrated from in-game measurement).

Torpedo module damage1,100

Per-torpedo module/blast damage parameter from in-game data. Most torpedoes carry 500 to 2,000; ships announced by WG as dealing increased module damage carry 9,000 to 12,000, so their hits knock out engines, rudders, and turrets far more often. Comparative figure; the exact module-HP conversion is not published.

Tube count6

2 launchers x 3 tubes.

Per-side salvo6 torpedoes

6 (centerline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).

Full-salvo damage84,000

All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 14,000 = 84,000.

Per-side salvo damage84,000

One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 6 x 14,000 = 84,000.

AA defense

AA DPS at max range14

Only families that reach 3.5 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 76mm 39k 1x2 -> 7 DPS @ 3.5 km; 76mm 39k 1x2 -> 7 DPS @ 3.5 km; 37mm70K 6x1 -> 95 DPS @ 3.2 km; 12 DShK 4x1 -> 47 DPS @ 1.2 km.

Maximum AA range3.5 km

Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 3.5 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.

AA DPS layered by range14 DPS @ 3.5 km, 109 DPS @ 3.2 km, 156 DPS @ 1.2 km

Cumulative AA DPS at each family range threshold. Inner ranges stack the outer families, so a target closing the distance hits stronger AA bubbles as it crosses each band.

AA DPS at point-blank156

Sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (1.2 km).

AA threat index409

SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.

Near aura range1.2 km

Armor Beta

Hull HP 12,600 → 15,500 with hull upgrade, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds. HP caps are estimated from the standard WoWs damage-allocation model.

Bow & stern16 mm

Overmatched by 92+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.

Farming6 mm

Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 23%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →

Section	Plates	HP cap	Threats	Tactic
Bow	16 mm primary (range 6–16 mm)	≈ 775 (~5% of HP)	Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Bow-tank fits behind this exterior plate. Saturation is FAST here; the cap is often only a few thousand HP.
Hull (midship)	16 mm	≈ 11,625 (~75% of HP)	Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest.
Stern	16 mm primary (range 13–16 mm)	≈ 775 (~5% of HP)	Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Moltke, Graf Spee)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+	Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation.
Citadel	16 mm primary (range 10–16 mm)	no cap	Citadel pen: full damageOver-pen: ×0.10 damage	Effectively no cap; citadel pool sits at ~165k HP on every ship. An AP citadel penetration deals the shell's full damage, the biggest single hit available; only over-penetrations are damped, to ×0.10.
Superstructure	6 mm primary (range 6–16 mm)	no cap	Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage	Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage. HE-spam target, and the section saturates fast (often only a few thousand HP).

Saturation cap = HP a section can absorb before further damage to it is reduced (the "bow-tank" effect). Citadel pool is ~165k on every ship (effectively no cap); damage is gated by pen/over-pen multipliers instead. Superstructure saturates fast but HE always pens regardless of the plate thickness. Rudder (and other module HPs) are a separate pool from ship HP: damaging a module doesn't drain ship HP. Incapacitated modules like the rudder and engine are restored by DCP, but secondary and AA mounts destroyed at 0 HP stay out for the rest of the battle.

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Balance History

Balance updates affecting Boevoi. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.

Buff ×4Rework ×2Main Battery ×1Torpedo ×2Consumable ×3

2025-10-30

Ministry of Balance: Preparing for Winter

Main battery reload time reduced from 7 to 5 seconds.
Stock torpedo range increased from 5 to 6 km.
Upgraded torpedo range increased from 7 to 8 km.
Added Repair Party consumable.
Changed the order of consumables to be consistent throughout the Soviet destroyer Tech Tree branch:
Damage Control Party.
Replaced the "Short Range" trait with "Exposed".

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