HMS Aberdeen - Tier IX British Premium Cruiser 1963

A hypothetical addition to the Belfast-class cruisers, rearmed with the automatic 152 mm and 76 mm guns intended for the Minotaur-class cruisers project (1947) but instead used to complete the Tiger-class cruisers in the 1950s.

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Key Features and Battle Tips

Key Features

Aberdeen is equipped with eight twin automatic 152mm guns, the same mounts found on the Tier X Cruiser Minotaur. These guns fire only AP shells, which feature improved penetration angles and fuse timers, resulting in a high damage output for her tier. Her strengths include good concealment and superior agility compared to her peer, Neptune. For consumables, she uses a Short-Burst Smoke Generator, similar to British Destroyers and Belfast '43, and is equipped with Surveillance Radar, allowing her to use her smoke effectively even when operating alone.

Battle Tips

Play Aberdeen as a support cruiser for your team's destroyers, focusing on securing key areas of the map and wearing down larger targets. Use her high rate of fire to be a serious threat to enemy destroyers and cruisers. However, her short gun range, small hitpoint pool, and large citadel make her vulnerable. Avoid aggressive attacks and being caught in bad positions, as she cannot survive a heavy assault from enemy battleships. Use her numerous, short-duration smoke charges in combination with her radar to create windows of safe damage output.

Ship Info

Ship Name:   IX Aberdeen

Level: 9

WG introduction: November 20, 2025

Status during tests:  IX Aberdeen

Base value: 18,000

Estimated release: 15.1

Game Nation:  British

Armor

Hit points: 39,200

Fires duration: 30 s

Torpedo protection: 4%

Hull plating fore/mid/aft: 16/19-114/16 mm

Deck plating fore/mid/aft: 16/19/16 mm

Fore Athwartships: 19 mm

Aft Athwartships: 19 mm

Citadel Fore Athwartships: 63 mm

Citadel Aft Athwartships: 63 mm

Armor Belt: 114 mm

Plating: 25 mm

Citadel Deck: 6-76 mm

Superstructure: 13 mm

Citadel Bottom: 40 mm

Turrets: 38-102 mm

Tonnage: 14,934 t

Main Battery Armament

4 x 2 152 mm/50 QF Mk.V on a Mk.XXVI mount:

Firing range: 15.8 km

Reload time: 3.6 s

180-degree turn time: 4.7 s

Maximum dispersion: 142 m

Sigma: 2.05σ

Shell Types

HE Shells

Not Available

AP Shells

8x 152 mm AP 6crh Mk IV:

Alpha Damage: 3,200

Ammo Type: Armor Piercing

Shell Air Drag: 0.3475

Shell Always Ricochet At: 75.0°

Normalization: 8.5°

Shell Detonator: 0.005

Shell Detonator Threshold: 12.0

Shell Diameter: 152 mm

Shell Krupp: 2672.0

Shell Mass: 58.85 kg

Shell Ricochet At: 60.0°

Shell Speed: 768.0 m/s

DC Airstrike

Aircraft: Handley Page Halifax GR

Plane HP: 2000 hp

Reload time: 30.0 s

Available flights: 2

Number of aircraft in attacking flight: 1

Maximum range: 7.0 km

Number of bombs in payload: 2x 350 lb Bomb Mk VIII

Maximum bomb damage: 4,200

Fire chance: 24%

Secondaries

Not Available

Torpedoes

2 × 3 533 mm Mk IX:

Maximum damage: 16,767

Maximum range: 10.0 km

Speed: 62 kt.

Detectability range: 1.3 km

Torpedo tube reload time: 80 s

180 degree turn time: 7.2 s

Chance of Flood: soon%

Anti Aircraft Armament

Long Range

4 x 2 152 mm/50 QF Mk.V on a Mk.XXVI mount:

Action Zone: 3.5-6.9 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Damage Within an Explosion: 1,820

Continuous Damage Per Second: 112

Continuous Damage: 300

Number of Explosions Per Salvo: 5

Mid Range

4 x 2 76.2 mm/70 QF Mk.N1 on a Mk.6 mount:

Action Zone: 4.0 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Continuous Damage Per Second: 266

Short Range

20 x 2 20 mm Oerlikon Mk.II on a Mk.V mount:

Continuous damage per second: 245

Hit probability: 85 %

Action zone: 2.0 km

Mobility

Maximum speed: 32.5 kt

Turning circle radius: 730 m

Rudder shift time: 9.6 s

Propulsion: 80,000 hp

Detection

Detectability range by sea: 11.6 km

Detectability after firing a main gun shell: 15.8 km

Detectability after firing main guns in smoke: 5.7 km

Detectability when ship is on fire: 13.6 km

Detectability range by depths: 0.0-8.5 km

Detectability range by air: 8.5 km

Detectability after firing a main gun shell: 11.6 km

Detectability when ship is on fire: 10.5 km

Available Consumables

Slot 1: Damage Control Party

Charges: unlimited

Work time: 5 s

Reload time: 60 s

Slot 2: Repair Party

Charges: 3

Action time: 28 s

Reload time: 80 s

Regeneration per second: +196 hp/s

Slot 3: Surveillance Radar

Charges: 3

Action time: 40 s

Reload time: 120 s

Ship detection radius: 10 km

Slot 4: Short-Burst Smoke Generator

Charges: 5

Action time: 15 s

Reload time: 70 s

Smoke dispersion time: 40.0 s

Action radius: 0.6 km

Slot 5: Hydroacoustic Search

Charges: 3

Torpedo detection range: 3.5 km

Ship detection range: 5.0 km

Duration time: 100 s

Reload time: 120 s

Note: All stats are listed without crew and upgrade modifiers but with best available modules. The stats are subject to change at any time.

Important: All information in this post is 'Work in Progress', the announced adjustments and features may undergo multiple changes during testing, all changes will be added to this post immediately after they become available, the final details will be officially published and labelled in the ship info as 'Released' on this post.