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Zerstörer 1943C Original Design

Hello! This is my first creation I've ever made in Naval Art and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. It's an original design of a German-inspired destroyer in an alternate setting where Germany became Democratic instead of Fascist and fought against the British Empire and the USSR (I made this setting mostly because there are no proper Kriegsmarine flags in the game lol)

Part count: 1010
Build time: Roughly 70 hours when not accounting for time spent afk and spinning the camera in circles

Stats:

Displacement: 2,400 t (standard load), 3,400 t (full load)
Length: 116.7 m (382.9 ft)
Beam: 12.2 m (40 ft)
Height: 35.3 m (115.8 ft)

Propulsion: 32,191 shp (this is *way* too low for a ship of this displacement but the game says its okay so whatever lol)
Speed: 38.2 kts (70.7 km/h, 44 mp/h)

Armament:
4x2 12.8 cm (5 in) SK C/41 Twin DP turrets
2x5 53.3cm (21 in) Quintuple Torpedo Tubes
4x2 3.7 cm (1.45 in) SK C/30 Flak AA gun
10x1 2 cm (0.78 in) Oerlikon AA Autocannon (Assume this is a perk of being in the allies shhhh)
20x WBH Depth Charges
Paravanes

Electronics:
FuMO 24/25 Surface search RADAR
FuMO 27 Gunnery control RADAR
Gruppenhorchgerät (GHG) SONAR

Design Description:
As a result of British attacks on German shipping in the early days of the war both by sea and air, the Bundesmarine Admiralty became acutely aware of the need for indigenous escort ships capable of both protecting convoys and standing to a superior enemy in an outnumbered fight. Designs began to be produced in mid 1942, but many were either undergunned for the task they needed to fill, or too large for the still growing German naval industry to produce in reliable numbers. Finally, in early 1943, design studies began to circulate for the 1943 series destroyers utilizing the newly developed 12.8 cm SK C/41 dual purpose guns, which previous designs had lacked due to complications in production. Now with guns capable of fulfilling both anti-air and surface duties, the 1943 designs were able to more efficiently use space to fulfill the roles required, and four design iterations, from A to D, varying in armament and size, were developed, with the 1943C class finally being chosen for production.

The 1943C design was small in length- especially for how much armament it carried- but still quite heavy, and was at the upper limit of what German dockyards could produce quickly. Due to British air raids on German dockyards, production was delayed further, but with the combined forces of the Luftwaffe and the USAF, the air war over Germany shifted in favor of the allies, and with dockyards now unimpeded, production soon began in full. The first of the 1943C destroyers was completed in February of 1944, Z-83 "Viktor Valois", and the class completed production with a size of 18 ships. This class proved to be potent in combat and highly survivable with numerous instances of its members taking far more damage than expected to survive and managing to limp back to port- and in the role of an anti-destroyer and escort vessel, the class became infamous in the Royal Navy for its deadliness against their own destroyers. The class wasn't without its flaws, and the short ship size limited the amount of ammunition it could take into battle and the fuel it could carry for long range missions, but it was widely considered to be the first truly successful destroyer of the Bundesmarine in WWII. By the end of the war, four ships were lost.


Sorry for the excessive paragraph, I just like writing things like this lol. I plan on making a full fleet of this alt-history Germany's navy working up in size, so look out for that if you liked this work. Thanks for reading if you got this far!