ARP Kirishima

13.9

ARP Kirishima

Battleship | Japan | Tier V

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points54,100

Main Battery

356 mm/45 41st Year Type in a twin turret4 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire2 shots/min.

Reload Time30 sec.

Rotation Speed3.3 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time54.55 sec.

Firing Range21.2 km.

Maximum Dispersion236 m.

HE Shell356 mm HE Type0

Maximum HE Shell Damage5,700

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell25 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity805 m./s.

HE Shell Weight625 kg.

AP Shell356 mm AP Type91

Maximum AP Shell Damage10,200

Initial AP Shell Velocity775 m./s.

AP Shell Weight673.5 kg.

Secondary Armament #1

127 mm/40 Type 89 on a Model A1 mount4 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range4.3 km.

Rate of Fire12 shots/min.

Reload Time5 sec.

HE Shell127 mm HE Type0

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,100

Initial HE Shell Velocity725 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

Secondary Armament #2

152 mm/50 41st Year Type on a casemate mount14 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range4.3 km.

Rate of Fire6 shots/min.

Reload Time10 sec.

HE Shell152 mm HE Type4

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,500

Initial HE Shell Velocity825 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell9 %

AA Defense

127 mm/40 Type 89 on a Model A1 mount4 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second40.4

. . . Firing Range5.01 km.

25 mm/60 Type 96 on a twin mount6 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second16.2

. . . Firing Range2.49 km.

13 mm/76 Type 93 on a quadruple mount2 х 4 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second5.8

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

13 mm/76 Type 93 on a twin mount4 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second8

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed30 knot

Turning Circle Radius770 m.

Rudder Shift Time14.9 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range15.71 km.

Air Detectability Range9.36 km.

Battle Levels

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13.9

ARP Kirishima

Battleship | Japan | Tier V

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points54,100

Main Battery

356 mm/45 41st Year Type in a twin turret4 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire2 shots/min.

Reload Time30 sec.

Rotation Speed3.3 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time54.55 sec.

Firing Range21.2 km.

Maximum Dispersion236 m.

HE Shell356 mm HE Type0

Maximum HE Shell Damage5,700

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell25 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity805 m./s.

HE Shell Weight625 kg.

AP Shell356 mm AP Type91

Maximum AP Shell Damage10,200

Initial AP Shell Velocity775 m./s.

AP Shell Weight673.5 kg.

Secondary Armament #1

127 mm/40 Type 89 on a Model A1 mount4 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range4.3 km.

Rate of Fire12 shots/min.

Reload Time5 sec.

HE Shell127 mm HE Type0

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,100

Initial HE Shell Velocity725 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

Secondary Armament #2

152 mm/50 41st Year Type on a casemate mount14 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range4.3 km.

Rate of Fire6 shots/min.

Reload Time10 sec.

HE Shell152 mm HE Type4

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,500

Initial HE Shell Velocity825 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell9 %

AA Defense

127 mm/40 Type 89 on a Model A1 mount4 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second40.4

. . . Firing Range5.01 km.

25 mm/60 Type 96 on a twin mount6 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second16.2

. . . Firing Range2.49 km.

13 mm/76 Type 93 on a quadruple mount2 х 4 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second5.8

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

13 mm/76 Type 93 on a twin mount4 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second8

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed30 knot

Turning Circle Radius770 m.

Rudder Shift Time14.9 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range15.71 km.

Air Detectability Range9.36 km.

Battle Levels

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V

Special

ARP Kirishima — Japanese special premium Tier V battleship.

A Battleship of the "Fleet of Fog". Modeled after the Imperial Japanese Navy's 4th Kongo-class battleship, Kirishima. She was first seen engaging I-401, along with Haruna, at the battle in Yokosuka Bay. She was eventually defeated by I-401 due to her "trump card" backfiring under her rival's tactics. This warship has been specially designed for World of Warships, and is modeled after Kirishima as she appears in "ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA-".

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
356 mm/45 41st Year Type in a twin turret	2	54.5	236	5,700	25	10,200		0	0

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
ARP Kirishima	54,100	13	254	4	4/14	4/2/6/4				0	0

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Type5 mod. 2		0		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 136,000 hp	30		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3

Player Opinion

Performance

As she performs exactly like standard Kongo, see the article on Kongo for her performance appraisal.

Pros:

• All the pros of the standard Kongo.
• Comes with a number of free Commander Skill points (varies by region and event).
• Special unique announcer (voiced by her voice actor from the Ars Nova series).
• Captains can be transferred to and from other ships of IJN.

Cons:

• All the cons of the standard Kongo.
• Voice notifications of unique commander are in Japanese.

Research

ARP Kirishima comes fully upgraded, with the same upgrade slots found on Kongo and a captain with 6 free Commander Skill points.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

As this ship is basically a copy of the tech tree Kongo, the following recommended upgrades are the same:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1 *
• Slot 2: Damage Control System Modification 1 
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1 *

Slot 1 provides players with the first option in choosing a desired role. Typically, Main Armaments Modification 1 is recommended to provide additional survivability to the main battery, but players who desire to specialize in the secondary or anti-aircraft armament should choose Auxiliary Armaments Modification 1 .

Slot 3 allows for further specialization. Generally, Aiming Systems Modification 1 is recommended because it reduces shell dispersion of the main and secondary armaments. To increase the effectiveness of the anti-aircraft armament, mount AA Guns Modification 1 . Players wishing to specialize for secondaries should mount Secondary Battery Modification 1 .

However, as it is a copy, players can experiment with different upgrade combinations.

Commander Skills

As this ship is basically a copy of the tech tree Kongo, the following recommended commander skills for maximum effectiveness are the same. However, as it is a copy, players can experiment with different commander skill builds.

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack			Defense
1	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type. ★★	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance when firing at submarines.	Consumables Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party ,  Repair Party . ★	Emergency Repair Specialist -3% cooldown time of Damage Control Party  and Repair Party . ★★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning about a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5 km.	Preventive Maintenance −30% chance of main armament, engines, steering becoming incapacitated +15% to HP of secondary and AA guns. ★
2	Grease the Gears +20% main turret traverse speed. ★★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells. Base fire chance reduced by half.	Brisk So long as the ship remains undetected: +10% ship speed. ★	Vigilance +25% detection range of enemy torpedoes +7% damage reduction of Torpedo Protection System. . ★★	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★	AAA & ASW Expert +15% continuous AAA and flak damage . +10% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −40% ship consumables reload time..
3	Super-Heavy AP Shells +7.5% AP shell damage −10% fire and flood damage received +25% fire and flood duration.	Long-Range Secondary Battery Shells +20% secondary battery firing range.	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Basics of Survivability -15% repair, fire, and flooding duration. ★★★	Improved Repair Party Readiness −0.8% reload time of Repair Party each time your ship receives potential damage equal to 100% of the ship's base HP. After receiving 2M HP potential damage: +1 charge of Repair Party ..	Focus Fire Training In an active priority AA sector: •  +1.5% (to 5%) immediate damage. •  +25% continuous damage. •  +1 flak burst per salvo. −10% aircraft preparation time. −15% reload time of Airstrike armament..
4	Furious 1st fire / flood   −10% Main battery reload time 2nd etc. (up to 5), each   −5% Main battery reload time	Manual Secondary Battery Aiming −10% secondary battery reload time. −10% secondary battery dispersion. When firing at a manually selected target: dispersion gradually improves from -25% to -50%.	Close Quarters Combat -10% reload time of main battery if an enemy ship is spotted within secondary range.	Emergency Repair Expert Damage Control Party  and Repair Party : +1 charge (each). +10% action time . ★★★	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★★	Fire Prevention Expert -10% risk of fire. Three fires maximum. ★★★
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Just like the tech tree Kongo, players have access to the following consumables on ARP Kirishima:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Repair Party 
• Slot 3: Spotting Aircraft 

Camouflage

Mounts the ARPEGGIO- ARP Kirishima camouflage

Signals

As this ship is basically a copy of the tech tree Kongo, the following recommended signals for maximum effectiveness are the same. However, as it is a copy, players can experiment with different signals combinations.

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Juliet Charlie -100% to the risk of magazine detonation.	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration. ★★★	India Yankee -20% to fire duration. ★★★	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy. ★	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding. ★★	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating. ★
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating. ★★	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time. ★	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed. ★★	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables. ★	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used. ★★★
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator .	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire .

Note: Use of the Juliet Charlie signal makes detonation impossible.

Gallery

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  Kirishima as she appears in Ars Nova.

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  Kirishima’s original Mental Model as she appears in Ars Nova.

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  I-401s, or Iona's, Mental Model, who is assigned as the captain of Kirishima in the game.

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  Kirishima’s new body after her original was destroyed, available in game from a seperate mission.

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  Kirishima as she appears in the game, her glowing patterns clearly visible.

Historical Info

Kirishima (kanji: 霧島, katakana: キリシマ) Fast battleship of the Second Oriental Fleet. Later, guardian of Makie Osakabe and member of Blue Steel.

Voiced by: Yumi Uchiyama

Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova

In 2038, a mysterious fleet of warships, who have lurked around the world in the decades decades before, goes on the offensive against humanity. Modelled after ships that appeared in World War II, but possessing weaponry far superior to those in humanity's possession and protected by an indestructible barrier immune to whatever we have to throw at them, humanity quickly loses control of the seas and our military forces are annihilated in the desperate battles against them. The result was a world where humanity's presence in the oceans was no more, with communication via the seas cut off and humans isolated from each other, blockaded by the "Fleet of Fog".

In 2054, a change became across the Fleet of Fog. The ships of the Fog, impersonal and faceless, started developing "Mental Models", human avatars capable of thinking in ways similar to human beings, with personalities unique to each Mental Model. One of these was the I-401, or, Iona, who made contact with Gunzō Chihaya to become his ship. Gunzō, with Iona and a small band of friends who now crew the I-401, as Blue Steel seek to create a balance to this lopsided status quo with the Fleet of Fog, to bring a peace where humanity and the Fleet of Fog can happily coexist together.

Kirishima is a Fog battleship who joined Haruna’s effort to sink the I-401 in Yokosuka. Despite being able to combine with Haruna to form an even stronger vessel, both were defeated by I-401, with only her core surviving her destruction. It is later hidden inside a Teddy bear belonging to Makie. She then slowly gets adjusts to using the Teddy bear as her stand-in Mental Model over the course of the series and assists the Blue Steel Fleet alongside Haruna and Makie.

Historical

Kirishima (霧島, "Misty Island", named for Mount Kirishima) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval engineer George Thurston, she was the third launched of the four Kongo-class battlecruisers. Laid down in 1912 at the Mitsubishi Shipyards in Nagasaki, Kirishima was formally commissioned in 1915 on the same day as her sister ship, Haruna. Kirishima patrolled on occasion off the Chinese coast during World War I, and helped with rescue efforts following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

Starting in 1927, Kirishima’​s first reconstruction rebuilt her as a battleship, strengthening her armor and improving her speed. From 1934, a second reconstruction completely rebuilt her superstructure, upgraded her engine plant, and equipped her with launch catapults for floatplanes. Now fast enough to accompany Japan's growing carrier fleet, she was reclassified as a fast battleship. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kirishima acted primarily as a support vessel and troop transport, moving army troops to mainland China. On the eve of World War II, she sailed as part of Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's Kido Butai as an escort for the six carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

As part of the Third Battleship Division, Kirishima participated in many of the Imperial Japanese Navy's early actions in 1942, providing support for the invasion of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and in the Indian Ocean raid of April 1942. During the Battle of Midway, she provided escort to Nagumo's four carriers, before redeploying to the Solomon Islands during the Battle of Guadalcanal. She escorted Japanese carrier fleets during the battles of the Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz Islands, before sailing as part of a bombardment force under Admiral Nobutake Kondō during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. On the evening of 13 November 1942, Kirishima engaged American cruisers and destroyers alongside her sister ship Hiei. On the night of 14/15 November, in one of only two battleship duels of the Pacific War, Kirishima heavily damaged USS South Dakota (BB-57) before being crippled in turn by the battleship USS Washington (BB-56). Kirishima capsized and sank in the early morning on 15 November 1942 in Ironbottom Sound.

Historical Gallery

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  Kirishima docked at Sasebo in December 1915.

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  Kirishima at Tsukumo Bay on May 10, 1937.

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  Kirishima off Amoy, China, in 1938.

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  Kirishima in 1932, following her first reconstruction.

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  Kirishima and the fast carrier Akagi off Tsukumo, April 1939.

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  Takao (center) and the Kirishima steaming for Guadalcanal, 14 November 1942.

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  Washington fires on Kirishima during the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 15 November 1942.

Video

References

1. Japanese battleship Kirishima - Wikipedia
2. Kongō-class battlecruiser - Wikipedia

Ship Change Log

See here for links to Update notes.

• Added to the game in Update 0.5.2 for the ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA- event as a reward for completing special tasks.
• Update 0.5.10:
  • Fixed visual effects of the ship.
• Update 0.5.11:
  • The armored model of the hull was refined.
• Update 0.6.2:
  • Corrected the position of the aircraft on the catapult.
• Update 0.6.12:
  • Detectability when firing main guns in smoke changed to 14.17 km.
  • Detection distance of Kawanishi E7K carrier-based aircraft was adjusted to the correct value. Detection by aircraft now 7 km, from ships increased to 8 km.
• Update 0.6.13:
  • Improved display of thin elements.
• Update 0.6.14:
  • Improved display of thin elements. The changes do not affect game balance in any way.
• Update 0.7.1:
  • It became possible to dismiss unnecessary commanders. Please note: after the dismissal of commanders, they can no longer be received on the account.
• Update 0.7.4:
  • Added the option to sell the ship (for 1,125,000 credits).
• Update 0.7.6:
  • Improved display of thin elements on the body kit.
• Update 0.7.11:
  • Armor-piercing shells of 152-mm secondary battery guns were replaced with high-explosive shells.
• Update 0.8.1:
  • Fixed maximum firing range. It now matches the maximum firing range of battleship Kongo with improved FCS.
• Update 0.8.10:
  • The ship's special visual style is highlighted as a separate permanent camouflage with standard combat bonuses. You can also put special upgrades and other camouflages besides permanent ones. When camouflages are hidden through the additional content settings menu, the camouflage is removed.
• Update 0.9.0:
  • Converted into a premium ship. Now it receives increased credit earnings, and its permanent camouflage provides economic bonuses.
• Update 0.9.3:
  • Minor fixes to textures and ship model.
• Update 0.9.6:
  • The value of the in-game turning circle radius was changed to 770 m to correct prior discrepancy.
• Update 0.10.0:
  • The firing range of the secondary battery was increased to 4.3 km.

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