Ship:Z-23

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Z-23 — Germany Tech Tree Tier VIII Destroyer.

The Type 1934 ships were followed by an improved Type 1936. The 1936A modification featured an "Atlantic-style" fore stem and 150 mm guns. The lead ship of this type, Z-23, entered service in 1940. The destroyer escorted convoys in the Norwegian waters and later in the Bay of Biscay. In 1941, Z-23 returned to Norway, where she hunted down Arctic convoys and laid minefields. In 1943, she was transferred to France again. During the Battle of the Bay of Biscay, Z-23 was damaged by British bombers and declared a write-off.

Pros

HE shells have high armor penetration capabilities
High AP shell damage
Hydroacoustic search consumable available
Torpedoes reload rapidly

Cons

Low HE shell damage
Low torpedo damage

Ship Stats

Hull Information

Main Battery

Torpedoes

AA Defense

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4
Slot 5

Consumables

Slot 1: Damage Control Party  (5.0s action, 40.0s cooldown)
Slot 2: Smoke Generator  (3 charges, 20.0s action, 160.0s cooldown)
Slot 3: Engine Boost  (3 charges, 120.0s action, 120.0s cooldown)
Slot 4: Hydroacoustic Search  (3 charges, 100.0s action, 120.0s cooldown)

Gallery

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 ===Pros===
-* Pro 1
+* HE shells have high armor penetration capabilities
-* Pro 2
+* High AP shell damage
+* Hydroacoustic search consumable available
+* Torpedoes reload rapidly
 ===Cons===
-* Con 1
+* Low HE shell damage
-* Con 2
+* Low torpedo damage
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 ! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | ARMOR DETAIL !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" |
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Belt (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | —
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Belt (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 19
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Deck (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | —
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Deck (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 19
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Superstructure (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | —
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Superstructure (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 13
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Extremities (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | —
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Extremities (mm) || style="color:inherit;" | 19
 |}
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 | style="color:inherit;" | • Turning circle radius (m) || style="color:inherit;" | 680 || style="color:inherit;" | 680
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Rudder-shift time (sec) || style="color:inherit;" | 8.2 || style="color:inherit;" | 5.9
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Rudder-shift time (sec) || style="color:inherit;" | 6.3 || style="color:inherit;" | 4.5
 |}
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 ! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | MAIN BATTERY !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | FKS Typ 8 Mod. 1 !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | FKS Typ 8 Mod. 2
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Arrangement || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 4×1 128mm
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Arrangement || colspan="1" style="color:inherit;" | 4×1 128mm (Hull A) || style="color:inherit;" | 3x1 + 1x2 128mm (Hull B)
 |-
 | style="color:inherit;" | • Firing range (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 9.85 || style="color:inherit;" | 10.84
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Reload time (sec) || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 4.0
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Reload time (sec) || colspan="3" style="color:inherit;" | 4.0
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Rate of fire (shots/min) || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 15
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Rate of fire (shots/min) || colspan="3" style="color:inherit;" | 15
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • 180° turn time (sec) || colspan="2" style="color:inherit;" | 22.5
+| style="color:inherit;" | • 180° turn time (sec) || colspan="3" style="color:inherit;" | 22.5
 |}
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 <div style="border: 2px solid rgba(212,175,55,0.8); border-radius: 3px; margin-bottom: 1em; overflow: hidden;">
 {| class="wikitable" style="margin:0; color:inherit; width:100%"
-! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | TORPEDO LAUNCHERS !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | PGPT010 !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | PGPT011
+! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | TORPEDO LAUNCHERS !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | G7 Steinbarsch !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | G7 Schildbutt
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Number of launchers || style="color:inherit;" | 1 || style="color:inherit;" | 1
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Number of launchers || style="color:inherit;" | 2x4 533mm || style="color:inherit;" | 2x4 533mm
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Torpedo name || style="color:inherit;" | PGPT010 || style="color:inherit;" | PGPT011
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Torpedo name || style="color:inherit;" | G7 Steinbarsch || style="color:inherit;" | G7 Schildbutt
 |-
 | style="color:inherit;" | • Reload time (sec) || style="color:inherit;" | 90.0 || style="color:inherit;" | 90.0
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 | style="color:inherit;" | • 180° turn time (sec) || style="color:inherit;" | 7.2 || style="color:inherit;" | 7.2
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Damage || style="color:inherit;" | 40200 || style="color:inherit;" | 40200
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Damage || style="color:inherit;" | 14400 || style="color:inherit;" | 14400
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Range (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 0.3 || style="color:inherit;" | 0.3
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Range (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 8.5 || style="color:inherit;" | 9.5
 |-
 | style="color:inherit;" | • Speed (kt) || style="color:inherit;" | 65 || style="color:inherit;" | 66
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 | style="color:inherit;" | • Detectability (km) || style="color:inherit;" | 1.3 || style="color:inherit;" | 1.4
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Flooding chance (%) || style="color:inherit;" | 2.4% || style="color:inherit;" | 2.4%
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Flooding chance (%) || style="color:inherit;" | 240% || style="color:inherit;" | 240%
 |}
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 {| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 0 0.8em 0; width:100%; color:inherit;"
 ! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | AA ARMAMENT !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | MOUNTS × BARRELS
+|-
+| style="color:inherit;" | 128 mm || style="color:inherit;" | 1 × 2
 |-
 | style="color:inherit;" | 37 mm || style="color:inherit;" | 4 × 2
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 |-
 | style="color:inherit;" | Mid-range || style="color:inherit;" | 94.5 || style="color:inherit;" | 100% || style="color:inherit;" | 3.5
+|-
+| style="color:inherit;" | Long-range || style="color:inherit;" | 25 || style="color:inherit;" | 100% || style="color:inherit;" | 5.8
+|}
+'''Damage by shell explosions'''
+{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 0 0.8em 0; width:100%; color:inherit;"
+! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | EXPLOSIONS / SALVO !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | DAMAGE !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | HIT CHANCE !! style="background-color:#1a3244; color:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;" | ACTION ZONE (km)
+|-
+| style="color:inherit;" | 1 || style="color:inherit;" | 1540 || style="color:inherit;" | 100% || style="color:inherit;" | 3.5–5.8
 |}
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 | style="color:inherit;" | • Number of charges || style="color:inherit;" | 2
 |-
-| style="color:inherit;" | • Bombs per charge || style="color:inherit;" | 2
+| style="color:inherit;" | • Bombs per charge || style="color:inherit;" | 12
 |-
 | style="color:inherit;" | • Reload time (sec) || style="color:inherit;" | 40.0
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 <gallery>
+File:Z-23(Hull A)_in_Hamburg.png
 </gallery>
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 </gallery>
+</div></div></div>
+<div class="b-popup"><div class="b-popup&#95;head js-tech-nav&#95;head"><div><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ship_Change_Log">Ship Change Log</h2></div></div><span class="b-tech-nav&#95;arrow"></span></div><div class="b-popup&#95;content" style="display: none;"><div>
+*Update 0.5.15:
+**Available to supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.5.15.
+*Update 0.5.16:
+**Introduced into the game as a researchable ship in Update 0.5.16.
+*Update 0.6.6:
+**Improved appearance of the ship using a special technology for high-quality rendering of thin elements (mainly rigging).
+*Update 0.6.12:
+**Detectability when firing main guns in smoke changed to 3.38 km.
+*Update 0.6.13:
+**Fire extinguishing time now 30 s instead of 60 s.
+*Update 0.6.15:
+**Added a bonus to the "Congratulatory" permanent camouflage - a 10% discount to the cost of post-battle maintenance.
+*Update 0.7.10:
+**Added a special Steel Rat camouflage.
+**The range of the Hydroacoustic Search consumable was unified - 5 km for detecting ships, 3.5 km for detecting torpedoes.
+*Update 0.8.5:
+**Credits earnings increased by +5%.
+*Update 0.8.6:
+**The HP of the stock hull was increased from 14,700 to 16,700.
+*Update 0.8.7:
+**Fixed the visual display of the "From the bottom of the Ocean" camouflage.
+*Update 0.9.5:
+**Armor penetration of 128 mm HE shells was increased from 21 to 32 mm, and penetration of 150 mm HE shells - from 25 to 38 mm.
+**Small changes to geometry and textures.
+*Update 0.10.3:
+**The 150 mm/55 Tbts KC/36T guns on an LDrh LC/38 mount were removed from the game. The main battery models were updated.
+**When Hull B is mounted, the artillery configuration will change: the fore turret will become twin-gun.
+**Fixed a bug due to which torpedoes inflicted damage if they had already passed the ship or were moving in the opposite direction to it.
+*Update 0.10.4:
+**Fixed the rotation time of the bow turret.
 </div></div></div>

SURVIVABILITY	Z-23 (A)	Z-23 (B)
• Hit Points	16700	19500
• Torpedo protection damage reduction (%)	—

ARMOR DETAIL
• Belt (mm)	19
• Deck (mm)	19
• Superstructure (mm)	13
• Extremities (mm)	19

MANEUVERABILITY	Z-23 (A)	Z-23 (B)
• Maximum speed (kt)	37.0	37.0
• Turning circle radius (m)	680	680
• Rudder-shift time (sec)	6.3	4.5

CONCEALMENT	Z-23 (A)	Z-23 (B)
• Detectability by sea (km)	7.68	7.68
• Detectability by air (km)	3.5	3.5
• Detectability after firing main guns in smoke (km)	2.99
• Detectability by depths (km)	3.5	3.5

DISPERSION
• Dispersion type	Standard DD dispersion
• Dispersion formula	Dispersion (m) = 7.5 × range(km) + 15
• Sigma	2.0
• Maximum dispersion (m)	88
• Dispersion at 5 km	52
• Dispersion at 9.85 km	89

HE SHELL
• Name	128 mm Spr.Gr.
• Maximum damage	1500
• Fire chance (%)	6.0%
• Shell velocity (m/s)	830
• Shell weight (kg)	28
• Penetration (mm)	32

AP SHELL
• Name	128 mm P.Spr.Gr.
• Maximum damage	3000
• Shell velocity (m/s)	830
• Shell weight (kg)	28
• Fuse time (sec)	0.01
• Ricochet start (°)	45
• Always ricochet (°)	60
• Normalisation (°)	10
• Arming threshold (mm)	21

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