Combat envelope
Range and detection
Every bar uses the same 10 km scale. Surface detection is a visibility threshold, not a weapon range.
Ship Database
Tier I
Cruiser
Italy
Eritrea
Eritrea, a sloop, was developed between 1932 and 1934 for service in African colonies. To increase the operating range, the ship was equipped with electric motors from Balilla-class submarines. She was also equipped with a hospital, generating stations for submarine service, and minesweeping equipment. Eritrea served in the Spanish Civil War, and in the...
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Eritrea, a sloop, was developed between 1932 and 1934 for service in African colonies. To increase the operating range, the ship was equipped with electric motors from Balilla-class submarines. She was also equipped with a hospital, generating stations for submarine service, and minesweeping equipment. Eritrea served in the Spanish Civil War, and in the 1930s, she served in the Red Sea. In 1948, she was transferred to the French Navy and saw action in Indochina and the Pacific Ocean.
At a glance
The numbers that shape the ship
- Hit points
- 8,100
- Maximum speed
- 20.0 knots
- Surface detection
- 6.6 km
- Main battery range
- 9.9 km
- Main battery reload
- 3.0 s
Damage comparison
Published maximum per hit
Bars are normalized only against this ship's highest listed hit. They are not salvo damage, expected damage or DPM.
Handling, concealment and protectionOverview
Handling
- Maximum speed
- 20.0 knots
- Turning circle radius
- 310 m
- Rudder shift time
- 5.7 s
Concealment
- Surface detection
- 6.6 km
- Air detection
- 5.1 km
- Submarine detection
- 5.1 km
Survivability
- Hit points
- 8,100
- Torpedo damage reduction
- 0 %
Published armour thickness
Only positive values supplied by the API are shown.
- Overall published range
- 6–10 mm
Weapons and payloadsArmament
Surface armament
Main battery
- Maximum range
- 9.9 km
- Reload time
- 3.0 s
- Rate of fire
- 17.1 rounds/min
- 180° turn time
- 22.5 s
- Maximum dispersion
- 89 m
Shells
Damage is the API's published maximum for one shell hit.
120 mm proiettili HE 1918
HE- Maximum damage per hit
- 850
- Fire chance
- 6.0 %
- Muzzle velocity
- 750 m/s
- Shell mass
- 23 kg
Gun layout
- Mount
- 120 mm/45 Schneider-Canet-Armstrong Model 1918/19 on a Model 1918/19 mount
- Mounts
- 2
- Barrels each
- 2
Automatic armament
Secondary battery
Anti-aircraft defence
- Aura
- 13.2 mm/76 Breda Model 1931 on a twin mount
- Calibre
- 13 mm
- Mounts
- 2
- Aura
- 40 mm/39 Vickers-Terni Model 1917 on a single mount
- Calibre
- 40 mm
- Mounts
- 2
Modules, hull and progressionTechnical data
Default hull
- Hull hit points
- 8,100
- Main-battery barrels
- 2
- AA mounts
- 4
Engine
- Published maximum speed
- 20.0 knots
Fire control
Module research tree
Names, research prices and defaults are reported directly by the API.
SDT 1
Default- Type
- Suo
120 mm/45 Schneider-Canet-Armstrong Model 1918/19 on a Model 1918/19 mount
Default- Type
- Artillery
Propulsion:7,800 hp
Default- Type
- Engine
Eritrea
Default- Type
- Hull
- Next ships
- 1
Compatible upgrades
Official modernization descriptions and listed purchase prices. Effects still depend on the slot and configuration used in game.
Main Armaments Modification 1
Modernization- Credits
- 125,000
Auxiliary Armaments Modification 1
Modernization- Credits
- 125,000
Next ships
Research costs published in this ship's official progression data.
- Ship
- Nino Bixio
- Research cost
- 100 XP
- Available module groups
- 10
- Compatible upgrades
- 2
- Researchable next ships
- 1
- Upgrade slots
- 1
- Published battle levels
- 1–1
Cross-nation comparison
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