Built to a 10,000 ton displacement due to treaty restrictions, once fully equipped and loaded she was well over 12,000 tons. The Admiral Graf Spee was the last and heaviest of the 3 Deutschland-class ships built, sitting somewhere between a conventional heavy cruiser and a battlecruiser. Her protection, while nowhere close to an actual battleship, is sufficient enough to take a considerable amount of damage, especially at longer ranges. The Graf Spee primarily excels at long range engagements, capable of out-range any other cruiser at her rank. In War Thunder, the Admiral Graf Spee lives up to her "pocket battleship" moniker thanks to her slow but hard-hitting firepower. Culiminated into the Battle of the River Plate and the Graf Spee's eventual demise. During her three months career in World War II, she sunk nine vessel with ~50,000 GRT weight in total, prompting the British to sent out a task force to hunt her down. The Admiral Graf Spee, the last and heaviest-armoured ship of the class, is best known for her brief but dramatic career. "Armoured ship") while the successor Kriegsmarine later classified the ship simply as a heavy cruiser. Meanwhile, the Reichsmarine (Weimar German Navy) called the ship "Panzerschriff" (lit. In many aspects, the class is essentially a modernized incarnations of an armoured cruiser of old, featuring large calibre armaments while having sufficient protection and speed to defend itself against anything but a capital ship.īuilt during the Weimar Republic era in accordance with the displacement restriction imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, the ship's short length and dispropotional main turrets has led the British to nickname it "pocket battleship" - a name that became permanently associated to the class as a whole. The Deutschland-class cruiser is one of the first ship to be considered an archtypical of the so-called "pocket battleship". It was introduced in Update 1.95 "Northern Wind". The Deutschland-class, Admiral Graf Spee, 1939 is a rank V German heavy cruiser
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