Vampire

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Vampire

Destroyer | Commonwealth | Tier III

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points9,500

Main Battery

102 mm/45 QF Mk.V on an LA CP Mk.II mount4 х 1 pcs.

Rate of Fire12 shots/min.

Reload Time5 sec.

Rotation Speed10 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time18 sec.

Firing Range10.11 km.

Maximum Dispersion90 m.

HE Shell102 mm HE 31 lb

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,500

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell5 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity805 m./s.

HE Shell Weight14.06 kg.

AP Shell102 mm SAP 31 lb

Maximum AP Shell Damage1,700

Initial AP Shell Velocity805 m./s.

AP Shell Weight15.2 kg.

Torpedo Tubes

533 mm TR Mk I1 х 3 pcs.

Rate of Fire0.97 shots/min.

Reload Time62 sec.

Rotation Speed25 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time7.2 sec.

Torpedo533 mm Mk II

Maximum Damage10,000

Torpedo Speed53 knot

Torpedo Range6 km.

AA Defense

40 mm/39 Vickers QF Mk.II on a Mk.II HA mount2 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second11.4

. . . Firing Range2.49 km.

20 mm Breda Model 1940 on a Model 1940 mount1 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second3.4

. . . Firing Range2.01 km.

13.2 mm Breda Model 1931 on a twin mount2 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second8.2

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed34 knot

Turning Circle Radius520 m.

Rudder Shift Time2.5 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range6.29 km.

Air Detectability Range2.38 km.

Battle Levels

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13.9

Vampire

Destroyer | Commonwealth | Tier III

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points9,500

Main Battery

102 mm/45 QF Mk.V on an LA CP Mk.II mount4 х 1 pcs.

Rate of Fire12 shots/min.

Reload Time5 sec.

Rotation Speed10 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time18 sec.

Firing Range10.11 km.

Maximum Dispersion90 m.

HE Shell102 mm HE 31 lb

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,500

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell5 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity805 m./s.

HE Shell Weight14.06 kg.

AP Shell102 mm SAP 31 lb

Maximum AP Shell Damage1,700

Initial AP Shell Velocity805 m./s.

AP Shell Weight15.2 kg.

Torpedo Tubes

533 mm TR Mk I1 х 3 pcs.

Rate of Fire0.97 shots/min.

Reload Time62 sec.

Rotation Speed25 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time7.2 sec.

Torpedo533 mm Mk II

Maximum Damage10,000

Torpedo Speed53 knot

Torpedo Range6 km.

AA Defense

40 mm/39 Vickers QF Mk.II on a Mk.II HA mount2 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second11.4

. . . Firing Range2.49 km.

20 mm Breda Model 1940 on a Model 1940 mount1 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second3.4

. . . Firing Range2.01 km.

13.2 mm Breda Model 1931 on a twin mount2 х 2 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second8.2

. . . Firing Range1.2 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed34 knot

Turning Circle Radius520 m.

Rudder Shift Time2.5 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range6.29 km.

Air Detectability Range2.38 km.

Battle Levels

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III

Special

Vampire — Commonwealth special premium Tier III destroyer.

One in a series of advantageous Type 5 flotilla leaders designed and built for the Royal Navy. In 1933, the ship was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy. During World War II, she was slightly upgraded and partially rearmed.

Vampire was awarded for free to players who completed a series of in-game missions in December 2017, and also offered for sale worldwide starting on 5 December 2017.

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 ()
102 mm/45 QF Mk.V on an LA CP Mk.II mount	12	18	90	1,500	5	1,700		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 ()
Vampire	9,500	6	10	4		2/1/2	1			0	0

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	Torpedo Tubes Reload Time (sec)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Damage (HP)	Torpedo Speed (knot)	Torpedo Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
533 mm Mk II	1	62	7.2	10,000	53	6		0	0

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Mk III		0		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 27,000 hp	34		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2

Player Opinion

Performance

Vampire is a Tier III Commonwealth destroyer that combines good maneuverability, great guns, and surprising torpedoes into a deadly package. Rounding her toolkit off is a decent stealth with the Concealment Expert commander skill, allowing stealth torpedo attacks on unsuspecting victims.

Her guns are her bread and butter. They have a high rate of fire at 12 rounds a minute, a decent fire chance at 5% (buff-able to 8% with relevant commander skills and signal flags), and excellent fields of fire for the A, B, and X, turrets, with X turret practically able to fire forward. Her armor piercing rounds are very potent as well, having excellent penetration for a 102mm shell — able to citadel cruisers at mid-to-close range — while also being able to get decent penetration damage on broadside battleships and cruisers at mid to long range.

Her torpedo launcher is a different matter, though one that isn't as bad as the stats may say. She has one triple torpedo launcher able to fire 6.0 km range torpedoes; the tricky part is the firing patterns. She has two patterns: single launch and wide spread. Wide spread is great for large groups of enemies, and the single launcher allows precision firing of the torpedoes one at a time at targets. A quick 62 second reload has torpedoes in the tubes quickly for the next strike.

Her AA isn't much to write home about; captains should steer clear of aircraft wherever possible. Her maneuverability is fantastic with a 520m turning circle and 2.5s rudder shift time. She is able to dodge and weave incoming fire very well, and makes retreating from enemies much easier.

Vampire’s Smoke Generator  is a key part of her arsenal; it is the same one afforded to her American cousins, packing a 109 second uptime for her smoke giving her ample time to fire out of her smoke as she caps, deals damage, or simply retreats.

Pros:

• Main guns have a great fire rate and range for her tier.
• The wide firing arcs of the main guns allow captains to fire without exposing much of the ship’s side.
• Like Gallant, Vampire can launch each torpedo individually, allowing for more precise torpedo attacks.
• Quick rudder shift time combined with a tight turning circle allow the ship to easily dodge incoming fire.
• Vampire’s smoke screen has a longer duration than most other destroyers at her tier.

Cons:

• Shell arcs are only slightly below orbital.
• Vampire only has three torpedoes.
• Inability to stealth torpedo without Concealment Expert. With the captain skill, she has a 200 meter stealth torpedo window.
  

Research

As a premium ship, Vampire doesn't have any upgrades to research.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades for Vampire are as follows:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1 *
• Slot 2: Engine Room Protection

Upgrade Slot 1 provides players with a choice between two viable upgrade options. The first is Main Armaments Modification 1, which improves the survivability and repair time of the ship's main armaments. Alternatively, some players may choose to mount Magazine Modification 1 , an upgrade which significantly reduces the chance of detonation.

Commander Skills

Key skills for Vampire commanders include anything that boosts her gun power — such as Basic Firing Training, Adrenaline Rush, and Demolition Expert — as well as other destroyer staples like Last Stand, Survivability Expert, and Concealment Expert. With only a single torpedo launcher, Vampire does not benefit as much from torpedo skills as other destroyers.

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack				Defense
1	Grease the Gears +15% main battery traverse speed.	Liquidator +30% chance (multiplicative) of causing flooding.	Consumables Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party ,  Repair Party .	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type.	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	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire. +15% to the damage-inflicting area of HE shells fired at submarines. ★★	Swift Fish +5% torpedo speed. ★★	Consumables Enhancements +10% action time of: Hydroacoustic Search , Surveillance Radar , Smoke Generator , & Engine Boost .	Extra-Heavy Ammunition +7.5% main battery AP shell damage. +10% damage from depth charges.	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies aiming at you with main battery.	Last Stand The ship remains able to move and maneuver - slowly - while the engine or steering gears are incapacitated. ★★
3	Main Battery & AA Specialist -5% main battery reload time. +10% continuous AA damage.	Fill the Tubes -10% torpedo tubes reload time.	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells Base fire chance reduced by half.	Superintendent +1 charge to all consumables.	Survivability Expert +350 HP per ship tier. ★★
4	Main Battery & AA Expert +20% main battery range. +15% flak damage.	Swift in Silence So long as the ship remains undetected: +8% ship speed +5% main battery reload time.	Radio Location Shows the direction to the nearest enemy ship. The enemy is alerted that a bearing has been taken..	Fearless Brawler +1 flak burst per salvo. -10% main battery reload when ship is spotted.	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★	Dazzle For 15 seconds after you are detected: * +20% dispersion of enemy shells fired at you. * +8% ship speed. ★★
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Vampire can equip the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Smoke Generator 
• Slot 3: Engine Boost 

Camouflage

As a premium ship, Vampire comes with Default permanent camouflage and a set of permanent combat bonuses.

Signals

Vampire can utilize various signal flags that can boost her offensive and defensive capabilities. India X-Ray () and Victor Lima () are very useful in boosting main battery power by increasing fire chance, while Juliet Whiskey Unaone () helps increase flooding chance for torpedoes. Taking Sierra Mike () will increase Vampire’s the top speed. Finally, Juliet Charlie () is a recommended to prevent an early exit to port via detonation.

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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  Vampire unleashes its ordinance.

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  Vampire destroys an enemy Langley.

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  Flag of Vampire. Given to players who purchased a special bundle containing Vampire.

Historical Info

HMAS Vampire, 1942

Construction

Builder: J. Samuel White & Co Ltd;
   Island of Wight, England

Laid Down: 10 October 1916

Launched: 21 May 1917

Commissioned: 22 September 1917
   (as HMS Wallace)

Decommissioned: 11 October 1933

Transferred to Australia

Commissioned: 11 October 1933

Decommissioned: 31 January 1934

Recommissioned: 11 May 1938

Sunk: 9 April 1942

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Specifications

Displacement: 1,188 tons standard

Length: 95.1 m

Beam: 9.0 m

Draft: 4.2 m

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Machinery

2 x Brown-Curtis turbines, twin screws

3 x White Forster boilers

367 tons of fuel oil

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Performance

34 knots at 27,000 shaft horsepower

3,500 nm at 15 knots

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Armament

Main

Four (4×1) 101.6mm QF Mk V guns

Anti-aircraft

Four (2x2) 7.7mm Lewis guns

Four (1x4) 7.7mm Vickers guns

Two (2x1) 40mm QF 2-pdr guns

Torpedoes

Three (1×3) 533 mm torpedo tubes

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Complement

6 Officers, 114-124 Enlisted

HMAS Vampire before her first deployment to the Mediterranean in 1939.

History

Design

Vampire belonged to the Admiralty "V"-class of flotilla leaders. Their design stemmed from the creation of the "S" class of destroyers which were capable of reaching a 36-knot top speed. Since the existing flotilla leaders were incapable of matching this speed, the Royal Navy requested a new class of leaders capable of keeping pace with the "S" class.

The "V"-class leaders were built under Britain's "Wartime Emergency Programme", so to speed production time they were built using the existing machinery designs of the "R"-class destroyers. The "R" class was larger than the proposed "V" class, so the larger machinery resulted in a higher weight and larger dimensions than originally planned, and further resulted in a decreased top speed of 34 knots.

The original "V"-class leaders were armed with two twin 21-inch torpedo tubes, and a later modification with two triple 21-inch tubes would become the "W" class. Vampire, however, was initially built as a test bed for the triple tubes, and as such, is still a "V"-class. The "V"-class introduced other improvements over previous classes, such as super firing guns in an AB-XY layout that would continue to be used for most of the following Royal Navy destroyer classes.

Throughout her carrier in the Royal Australian Navy, Vampire went through constant refits in order to maintain the functionality of her systems and update her armaments as the shape of naval combat changed. Particularly, there was a push to increase her anti-aircraft firepower. A refit in summer of 1941 had installed a single 12-pounder gun for a brief time. Her most extensive refit occurred in January 1942, where her aft torpedo-tube launcher was removed in order to install two 2-pounder guns in their place.

Service

In 1933, the British Admiralty agreed to loan a flotilla leader and four "V" and "W" class destroyers to the Royal Australian Navy to replace the ageing "S"-class destroyers that were currently in service in the RAN; HMS Vampire (D68) was among them. Sailing across the seas, Vampire reached Sydney on 21 December 1933, and was officially recommissioned into the RAN as HMAS Vampire on 14 July 1936. Vampire initially saw little duty beyond ordinary training and patrols, until the outbreak of World War II.

With the onset of war in the fall of 1939, Vampire and her flotilla departed from their bases of Sydney and Fremantle for Singapore. It was intended for the flotilla to be based at Singapore for a period of training, but it was decided that their stop at Singapore would be brief, and that they would continue on to the Mediterranean. Vampire arrived at Malta on 24 December 1939, her flotilla mates and herself forming the 19th Destroyer Division of the Mediterranean Fleet. At the time, Italy had not yet joined the war, so the Allies enjoyed naval supremacy in the Mediterranean. Vampire’s assigned duties were primarily routine escort and patrols from one end of the Mediterranean to the other. By 4 March 1940, she entered drydock at Malta for a 30-day refit. Following the refit, she returned to her escort duties without incident. Her first action came on 29 June 1940, when Italian aircraft attempted and failed to bomb her from high levels. Italy had declared war on Britain in early June, and the situation in the Mediterranean was changing rapidly. No longer were the waters exclusively in Allied or Neutral hand; there were but a few ports the Allies held, and the Regia Marina striking out from the heart of the Mediterranean.

Vampire’s days in the Mediterranean with her flotilla mates became the legacy of the "Scrap Iron Flotilla". This all-Australian flotilla would prove to be the thorn in the side of the Regia Marina, with Vampire at the head of it. Her first fight was the Battle of Calabria on 9 July 1940, where Vampire and her sister-ship HMAS Voyager screened the British carrier HMS Eagle. Vampire learned the value of violent evasive maneuvers when she came under repeated air attacks from Italian aircraft. Vampire was at sea for six whole days during Operation MA5 with the Mediterranean Fleet, her war diary recording that an estimated 1,350 bombs were dropped on her fleet. While Vampire avoided being hit directly, she suffered considerable damage from splinters, shrapnel, and near misses. Following repairs in Alexandria, Egypt, she resumed escort duty, covering convoys sailing from Alexandria to Malta and back again, operating out of Malta or Alexandria. Suffering only from repeated air raids, this was the norm for Vampire until the Italian invasion of Greece in late October 1940. Vampire joined the forces bound for the Aegean Sea to reinforce Greek resistance on land and sea, escorting troop convoys back and forth from Alexandria to Greece and Crete. By December 1940, Vampire joined the fleet supporting the Western Desert Campaign, striking into Italian Libya with resounding success, remaining off the coast of western Libya until 1941.

Things were continuing to change in the Mediterranean, however, for the Germans had arrived to aide their Italian allies. It gradually became much tougher to sail across the Mediterranean without coming under attack, and Vampire’s escort duties increased accordingly. She primarily found herself screening convoys in the western Mediterranean, particularly those ferrying vital men and equipment from Egypt to Greece, past the Axis-held Dodecanese Islands. During one such convoy run, Vampire transported ex-Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Stojadinović from the Gulf of Athens to Alexandria. While on an escort mission on 17 April 1941, Vampire came under attack from four German Ju88 dive bombers, successfully driving them off and hitting one in the port engine – twenty minutes later, only three Ju88s returned, and the plane kill was credited to Vampire. In Greece, however, the Greeks and British were fast losing ground to the German offensives, and a full-scale evacuation by sea was ordered. Vampire — as well as HMAS Perth and every other Australian warship in the Mediterranean — took part in the evacuations, screening unarmed troop convoys while carrying men themselves. With the German arrival in North Africa and the loss of Greece, Allied military fortunes were at a low, with the British being pushed back to the borders of Egypt by the Germans (save the garrison of the fortress of Tobruk, which was doggedly held by Australian troops). The duty of supplying these troops in Tobruk fell to the navy, and the "Tobruk Ferry" began.

For Vampire’s first "Ferry" trip on 13 May 1941, she set sail with materiel and 102 troops for Tobruk. She returned two days later with 180 wounded. On 21 May she sailed again, but limped back to Alexandria a tired, beaten ship. She was badly in need of repairs, and couldn’t maintain the speeds required for "Tobruk Ferry" work. The Admiralty reluctantly decided to withdraw her from the Mediterranean and send her to Singapore for an extensive refit. She departed via the Suez Canal at the end of May, reached Singapore in mid-June and entered drydock, remaining there until late November 1941. Returning to active duty on 26 November 1941, Vampire operated out of Singapore, becoming an escort for HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. On 8 December 1941, Prince of Wales and Repulse set sail with Vampire in tow in an attempt to intercept the Japanese invasion of Malaya. Following the disastrous loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse at the hands of Japanese aviation, Vampire recovered all the sailors she could and escaped back to Singapore.

Each day, the Japanese threat grew closer to Vampire. She kept busy escorting inward and outward convoys to Singapore. On 26 January 1942, she was sent alongside destroyer HMS Thanet to intercept Japanese transports within 80 miles of Singapore. These transports were escorted by the Japanese light cruiser Sendai and six Japanese destroyers. The resulting engagement sunk hopelessly outnumbered Thanet, but Vampire refused to sink that day, escaping back to Singapore — unscathed — by the following morning. She was dispatched to the British-held island of Ceylon, joining the screening force for aircraft carrier HMS Hermes until the end of March. It was clear to the British Admiralty that the overwhelming successes of Japanese operations on land and at sea was driving them further and further out of the Far East; if Ceylon fell, Australia and New Zealand would essentially be on their own against Japan, and a Japanese strike force was already underway for Ceylon. The Royal Navy rallied a force of five battleships, three aircraft carriers, six cruisers, and fourteen destroyers — including Vampire — to defend Ceylon. The Japanese striking force — comprised of five fast carriers and four battleships — fell upon the defenses of Ceylon too quickly for the Royal Navy to intervene. Cruisers HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall were lost at sea less than fifteen minutes after leaving Trincomalee, and Vampire and Hermes escaped south by the early morning of 9 April. At 10:35am on the 9th, aircraft were sighted by Hermes as Japanese dive bombers suddenly fell upon her, sinking the aircraft-less Hermes in twenty minutes. With Hermes sunk, the dive bombers turned their attention to lone Vampire. Fighting back with all her guns, she downed at least one aircraft before she broke in half after repeated hits, sinking in less than ten minutes and going down with her commanding officer and eight of her 130 men. The survivors from both Hermes and Vampire were recovered by the hospital ship Vita.

The ships of the "Scrap Iron Flotilla" became part of RAN legend. In 1949, four Daring-class destroyers were ordered by the Royal Australian Navy, each of them named after ships of the "Scrap Iron Flotilla": Vampire, Vendetta, Voyager, and Waterhen. Only the first three were completed and saw service with the RAN. The second HMAS Vampire (D11) had a long and illustrious career with the RAN, and was decommissioned in June 1986 before being transformed into a military museum ship. Today, HMAS Vampire’s legacy lives on as a part of the many exhibits of the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney.

Historical Gallery

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  HMAS Vampire, circa 1940.

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  HMAS Vampire in her original configuration. Note the division markings on her stacks.

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  Vampire in peacetime colors.

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  Vampire at anchor with her full set of awnings in place.

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  Vampire after her second torpedo launcher had been landed. Note her contrast camouflage scheme.

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  Vampire at sea, her contrast camouflage pattern fully visible.

Video

References

1. HMAS Vampire (D68) - Wikipedia
2. V and W-class destroyer - Wikipedia
3. https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-vampire-i

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Ship Change Log

See here for links to Update notes.

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.6.12.

Testing Changes

• Sep 20, 2017:
  • Preliminary characteristics.

• First appeared on sale in December 2017.
• Update 0.6.13:
  • Fire extinguishing time now 30 s instead of 60 s.
• Update 0.6.15:
  • A bonus was added to the "Type 9" permanent camouflage: a 10% discount to the cost of post-battle maintenance.
• Update 0.8.8:
  • Fixed a bug due to which the names of weapons in the "Modules" tab and in the performance characteristics of ships were different.
• Update 0.10.1:
  • Fixed geometry and textures.
• Update 0.11.3:
  • Minor fixes to geometry and textures of the ship.

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