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Meteor is a Tier VIII Soviet long-range gunboat destroyer reaching 11.4 km: her guns out-reach peer DDs and most cruisers can be kited at the edge of her range. The kit is HE spam from open water rather than cap contesting; the torpedoes are a backup, not the primary threat. Standout traits: best armor plate in T8 DDs (50 mm) and best engine power in T8 DDs (150,000 HP).
Sit in open water at the edge of 11.4 km where peer DDs cannot return fire and most cruisers have to push to engage. The kit is HE pressure from distance, not cap contesting; let your peer DDs take the cap while you kite the rotating cruisers and BBs that come to support it. Your guns lose penetration at range, so aim AP at broadsides you can still citadel and put HE into superstructures and upper-hull sections, rather than the bow-in or belt armor your shells bounce and shatter on.
The detection window is a hard timer; if you are still firing guns when concealment closes again, you have already taken more damage than the drop earned.
+8% speed, 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact.
50.0 mm max plate, best of T8 DDs.
28.0 s Repair Party duration, best of T8 DDs. Restores HP for longer per activation.
100.5 m max horizontal dispersion, worst of T8 DDs. Long-range salvos are noticeably wider than peers'.
7.61 km surface detect, worst of T8 DDs. Visible before you can react; position early.
Meteor is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition path: Containers. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.
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Where Meteor sits among Tier VIII DDs (27 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.
Not standouts for Meteor -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active
Sonar2 charges · 180 s reload · 98 s active · 4.68 km ship detect 
Repair Party2 charges · 80 s reload · 28 s active · 3,500 HP (14% of max HP) total heal (per charge) 
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +8% speed bonus
Main Battery Reload Booster2 charges · 150 s reload · 20 s active · +50% reload boostAll values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
Numbers the spec table cannot show directly: alpha-strike math, DPM, dispersion, AP penetration. Click the formula chip on any row to reveal how it is calculated.
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model: $\sigma_H = \left(\dfrac{R}{30}\cdot\dfrac{\text{idealRadius}-\text{minRadius}}{\text{idealDistance}} + \text{minRadius}\right)\cdot 30$ $= \left(\dfrac{11400}{30}\cdot\dfrac{8-0.5}{1000} + 0.5\right)\cdot 30 = 100.5\,\text{m}$How wide your shells scatter at 10 km, from the same dispersion model as the max-range figure above. Picking a fixed range makes this number directly comparable from ship to ship: max-range dispersion makes a longer-range gun look worse even when it's tighter at any common range. The interactive Dispersion tab on the Charts card plots the full curve from 0 to max range.Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $\sigma_V = \sigma_H \cdot \text{radiusOnMax}$ $= 100.5 \cdot 0.6 = 60.3\,\text{m}$How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above.50%-hit horizontal radius: $\sigma_{H,50} = \sigma_H \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 100.5 \cdot 0.319\;(\sigma = 2) = 32.1\,\text{m}$50%-hit vertical radius: $\sigma_{V,50} = \sigma_V \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 60.3 \cdot 0.32\;(\sigma = 2) = 19.3\,\text{m}$Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{-1.07} \cdot v_0^{1.38}$ $= 10^{-7}\cdot 1900 \cdot 33.4^{0.69} \cdot 0.13^{-1.07} \cdot 950^{1.38} = 244\,\text{mm}$. Matches the in-game spec card.Same formula at the ship's max firing range (14.2 km), where the shell has slowed to 369.9 m/s: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot 1900 \cdot 33.4^{0.69} \cdot 0.13^{-1.07} \cdot 369.9^{1.38} = 66.4\,\text{mm}$.22 mm ≈ 130 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).floor(130 mm caliber / 14.3) = 9 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.All 6 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 15 deg/s traverse speed = 12 s.1,650 HE damage x 6 broadside guns = 9,900.3,150 AP damage x 6 broadside guns = 18,900.9,900 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5.8 s base reload = 102,414.18,900 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5.8 s base reload = 195,517.9,900 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5.2 s installed reload (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10%) = 114,231.18,900 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5.2 s installed reload (Main Battery Mod. 3 = -10%) = 218,077.6 broadside guns x 60 / 5.8 s base reload = 62.1.6 broadside guns x 60 / 5.2 s installed Artillery reload = 69.2.62.1 shells/min x 6% fire chance = 3.72.69.2 shells/min x 6% fire chance = 4.15.detectability / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).range / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).2 launchers x 5 tubes.10 (centerline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 10 x 13,400 = 134,000.One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 10 x 13,400 = 134,000.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (34×3.5×1) + (11×3.5×0.95) + (17×3.5×1) = 215. Covers AA-only mounts plus dual-purpose secondaries (Bismarck 105mm, USN 5"/38 cruiser secondaries) and dual-purpose main batteries (Sumner-class 5"/38, Akizuki-line 100mm). Formula validated against in-game captures on California, Sumner, Manfred von Richthofen, Dante Alighieri (exact) and within +/-17% on the remaining verified ships.Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.Hull HP 25,000, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds. HP caps are estimated from the standard WoWs damage-allocation model.
Overmatched by 129+ guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.
Thin belt: battleship AP citadels straight through it broadside. Rely on angle, speed and concealment, never sit flat.
Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 40%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the ballistics tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bow | 19 mm primary (range 19–20 mm) | ≈ 1,250 (~5% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ (Scharnhorst '43, Schill)Angle bounces 203mm19 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Bow-tank fits behind this exterior plate. Saturation is FAST here; the cap is often only a few thousand HP. |
| Hull (midship) | 19 mm primary (range 19–20 mm) | ≈ 18,750 (~75% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ (Scharnhorst '43, Schill)Angle bounces 203mm19 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest. |
| Stern | 19 mm primary (range 19–20 mm) | ≈ 1,250 (~5% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ (Scharnhorst '43, Schill)Angle bounces 203mm19 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 50 mm primary (range 13–50 mm) | no cap | Citadel pen: full damageOver-pen: ×0.10 damage | Effectively no cap; citadel pool sits at ~165k HP on every ship. An AP citadel penetration deals the shell's full damage, the biggest single hit available; only over-penetrations are damped, to ×0.10. |
| Superstructure | 19 mm | no cap | Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage | Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage. HE-spam target, and the section saturates fast (often only a few thousand HP). |
Saturation cap = HP a section can absorb before further damage to it is reduced (the "bow-tank" effect). Citadel pool is ~165k on every ship (effectively no cap); damage is gated by pen/over-pen multipliers instead. Superstructure saturates fast but HE always pens regardless of the plate thickness. Rudder (and other module HPs) are a separate pool from ship HP: damaging a module doesn't drain ship HP. Incapacitated modules like the rudder and engine are restored by DCP, but secondary and AA mounts destroyed at 0 HP stay out for the rest of the battle.
Every custom exterior Meteor can equip, from in-game data.
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