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Ported to OBJ from the Battle for the Baltic (BFTB) Russian-language fan mod for Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition (SH4G or SH4 1.5). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. To download, click on the Download icon.

These were both the most advanced and most successful class of Soviet-built "fleet boats" available at the start of World War II. Officially they are the Series IX boats in Soviet records, being the ninth main class that they had built. No relation to the German Type IX U-boats other than the name, although both share in common the name and the fact that they were among the best built by their respective countries during the war, as well as certain design elements (more on that later in the text). The original Soviet Series IX was older, with the first boat (Nalim) of three launched in 1935. Two more build groups quickly followed, the 45 boats of the Type IXbis series (the main wartime model) and 6 boats of the more advanced Type XVI (none of which were ever completed and were eventually discarded after war). The overall S class designation comes from the Russian word srednyaya (Средняя) or "medium," designating these were medium class submarines given their size. Unofficially they became known as the Stalinets class ("followers of Stalin") after Josef Stalin, the leader of the Communist Party and leader of the country during the war. It is no accident that they resemble classic German U-boats from the same era, because back during the 1920s and 1930s and the days of the Weimar Republic in Germany they were one of the few friends that the newly formed Soviet Union had in the world and they worked together on a lot of things. Weimar Germany gave the Russians considerable technical assistance in helping to work out the kinks in their own submarine building programs (there's quite a story there that also involves several other countries, go look it up), and the initial design for what would become Stalinets was drawn up in 1933 right before the Nazis came to power in Germany and the political landscape changed. There are too many technical and design improvements to list here, but let me again say what I said at the start in shorter form: this was the best class of Soviet submaines at the start the war. Stalinets was as good a fleet boat as anybody else fielded, and by themselves they accounted for one-third of all enemy tonnage that the Soviet Navy sunk by submarine during the whole war. That says a lot right there. The survivors of the war would continue to serve well into the Cold War era. Two surviving S class boats along with two surviving M class boats were loaned to China in 1954 to form the initial backbone of the PLAN submarine force, and they wound up buying two more old S class boats outright a few years later. The survivors of the Stalinets class would continue to serve the Soviet Navy until the "Whiskey boats" came along to replace them, after which they were gradually phased out of service and all but one scrapped. S-56, one of the later Series IXbis boats and one with quite a combat record for a World War II Soviet sub, was saved for conversion to a static museum ship as a memorial to the Great Patriotic War. The fully intact submarine can be visited today in Vladivostok on the shore of Golden Horn Bay. S-56 is still treated with the utmost respect by the Soviet Navy, and all of its naval vessels that pass her by are required to dip their colors in token of tribute. To find out more about the Stalinets class submarines of the World War II era Soviet Navy, follow the links below

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_S…

naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/sov…

skip down to S-class Oceanic Series IX & IXbis (1935)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_s…

www.fregataero.com/en/tours/vl…

This is a straight port with no changes by me.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE - As the text says, this is the BEST Soviet sub class at the start of the war and for all intents and purposes as good as anything anybody else fielded. Bear in mind that most of these fought in the narrow confines of the Baltic Sea, which helps obscure them from Western histories of the war and limited their comparable records, once you naysayers begin naysaying. You're not going to get the kind of tonnage killed numbers in there that you're going to get in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian oceans, and that too helps to hide their effectiveness. The Germans had a lot of respect for them, so that should tell you something there.

TRIVIA - The difference between the first three (Series IX) and the last forty-five (Series IXbis) is that the first three were built with foreign assistance and used a lot of foreign-made equipment, and the second was tweaked to use only domestically produced equipment. That was a fortunate thing, given how fast relations between Russia and Germany soured once the Nazis came to power in Germany and the subsequent invasion of Russia by Germany during the war.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the Battle for the Baltic (BFTB) Russian-language fan mod for Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition (SH4G or SH4 1.5). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. To download, click on the Download icon.

These were both the most advanced and most successful class of Soviet-built "fleet boats" available at the start of World War II. Officially they are the Series IX boats in Soviet records, being the ninth main class that they had built. No relation to the German Type IX U-boats other than the name, although both share in common the name and the fact that they were among the best built by their respective countries during the war, as well as certain design elements (more on that later in the text). The original Soviet Series IX was older, with the first boat (Nalim) of three launched in 1935. Two more build groups quickly followed, the 45 boats of the Type IXbis series (the main wartime model) and 6 boats of the more advanced Type XVI (none of which were ever completed and were eventually discarded after war). The overall S class designation comes from the Russian word srednyaya (Средняя) or "medium," designating these were medium class submarines given their size. Unofficially they became known as the Stalinets class ("followers of Stalin") after Josef Stalin, the leader of the Communist Party and leader of the country during the war. It is no accident that they resemble classic German U-boats from the same era, because back during the 1920s and 1930s and the days of the Weimar Republic in Germany they were one of the few friends that the newly formed Soviet Union had in the world and they worked together on a lot of things. Weimar Germany gave the Russians considerable technical assistance in helping to work out the kinks in their own submarine building programs (there's quite a story there that also involves several other countries, go look it up), and the initial design for what would become Stalinets was drawn up in 1933 right before the Nazis came to power in Germany and the political landscape changed. There are too many technical and design improvements to list here, but let me again say what I said at the start in shorter form: this was the best class of Soviet submaines at the start the war. Stalinets was as good a fleet boat as anybody else fielded, and by themselves they accounted for one-third of all enemy tonnage that the Soviet Navy sunk by submarine during the whole war. That says a lot right there. The survivors of the war would continue to serve well into the Cold War era. Two surviving S class boats along with two surviving M class boats were loaned to China in 1954 to form the initial backbone of the PLAN submarine force, and they wound up buying two more old S class boats outright a few years later. The survivors of the Stalinets class would continue to serve the Soviet Navy until the "Whiskey boats" came along to replace them, after which they were gradually phased out of service and all but one scrapped. S-56, one of the later Series IXbis boats and one with quite a combat record for a World War II Soviet sub, was saved for conversion to a static museum ship as a memorial to the Great Patriotic War. The fully intact submarine can be visited today in Vladivostok on the shore of Golden Horn Bay. S-56 is still treated with the utmost respect by the Soviet Navy, and all of its naval vessels that pass her by are required to dip their colors in token of tribute. To find out more about the Stalinets class submarines of the World War II era Soviet Navy, follow the links below

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_S…

naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/sov…

skip down to S-class Oceanic Series IX & IXbis (1935)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_s…

www.fregataero.com/en/tours/vl…

This is a straight port with no changes by me.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE - As the text says, this is the BEST Soviet sub class at the start of the war and for all intents and purposes as good as anything anybody else fielded. Bear in mind that most of these fought in the narrow confines of the Baltic Sea, which helps obscure them from Western histories of the war and limited their comparable records, once you naysayers begin naysaying. You're not going to get the kind of tonnage killed numbers in there that you're going to get in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian oceans, and that too helps to hide their effectiveness. The Germans had a lot of respect for them, so that should tell you something there.

TRIVIA - The difference between the first three (Series IX) and the last forty-five (Series IXbis) is that the first three were built with foreign assistance and used a lot of foreign-made equipment, and the second was tweaked to use only domestically produced equipment. That was a fortunate thing, given how fast relations between Russia and Germany soured once the Nazis came to power in Germany and the subsequent invasion of Russia by Germany during the war.