Smerch

Scratch built card model in 1:250 scale.

Model by Igor Cherniak.

Russian monitor 1864.
The prototype was the Danish monitor "Rolf Krake".
Displacement - 1521 tons, twin-screw steam power plant power plants - 700 hp. with., speed - 8.75 knots. Length - 57.5 m in width - 11.6, the average deepening - 3.5 m.
Reservations: towers 114 mm, about 152 loopholes, belt 114, at 102 tip, 25.4 deck, fighting felling 114 mm. Armament: 2 229 - mm guns, 4 37 - mm cannon, 4 4 - pound cannon. Since in 1892 - battleship coastal defense. Since in 1909 - blokshiv № 2. In the First World War was used as a warehouse mines barricades. In 1918, the transition from Gelsingforsa in Kronshtadt, in the Great Patriotic War provided the actions of fleet forces, after the end of hostilities in the dismantled metal.