Lastly, the turret rangefinders are covered in 30 mm splinter protection. The barbettes are angular with 9 sides and have 330 mm of RCA, however once under the main armour deck the barbettes thin all the way down to 30 mm of RHA. The main turrets have sloped turret faces with 305 mm of RCA, the turret sides and roof are a uniform 125 mm RCA, the rear has the same 305 mm as the turret face, meanwhile the more vulnerable gunshields only have 152 mm of RHA. The deck of the fore and aft of the ship have only a single 10 mm layer. The final layer is a 30 mm splinter deck, which tapers to 15 mm over the torpedo bulges. Under this is the main armour deck, 90 mm of RHA (rolled homogeneous armour). The deck of the citadel has three layers of armour, the first is only 14 mm, intended to fuse shells and bombs prematurely.
The aft bulkhead is a lesser 275 mm RCA, though still capable of protecting the internals. The forward bulkhead is quite thick, 330 mm of RCA. Kronshtadt's 230 mm armour plateThe bow of the ship features a 20 mm icebreaker, which can fuse penetrating shells before they hit the bulkhead, though it's only half the height of the armour belt, leaving an unprotected gap between the icebreaker and the deck. Unfortunately for the Soviets however, construction began in 1939, shortly before the war broke out and the vessels of the class never had a chance to leave the shipyards before the German invasion permanently halted construction, the partially completed hulls were regarded as obsolete by the war's end and scrapped shortly thereafter. Over several years, the project evolved and grew through numerous iterations to the final battlecruiser design we have in game. The project began in the mid-1930s, first envisioned as essentially a super heavy cruiser of sorts, which was first intended to be able to defeat the treaty cruisers of other major powers. It was introduced in Update "Danger Zone". The Project 69, Kronshtadt, project is a rank V Soviet battlecruiser
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