Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Submarine class

Pravda-class submarine

Pravda or P class

The class in numbers

  • 4 Planned
  • 3 Completed
  • 1 Cancelled
  • 1 Lost

Design and service

Type
Submarine
In commission
- 1956

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, surfaced
1,200 long tons (1,219 t)
Displacement, submerged
1,870 long tons (1,900 t)
Length
90 m (295.3 ft)
Speed
20.5 knots (38 km/h, 23.6 mph)
Complement
54
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)
Armament
  • 4 × bow torpedo tubes
  • 2 × stern torpedo tubes
  • (10 torpedoes)
  • 2 × 100 mm guns
  • 1 × 45 mm guns

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