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Hughes is a Tier VI American torpedo destroyer. The torpedoes travel, so target reaction time is shorter than peer DDs; this is a torpedo-spam kit, not a gun trade kit. Standout traits: best close-range AP pen in T6 DDs (237.7 mm) and top-decile long-range AP brick in T6 DDs (75.5 mm).
Sit at the edge of a contested cap from concealment and cycle torpedo waves into lanes the enemy has to use - 8 km reach at 40 kt means the wall arrives before targets can react. Drop on probable lanes from cover, stay unspotted between waves, and let the wall do the work.
The kit pays out by saturating lanes, not by waiting for guaranteed broadsides; missed waves still force rotations and protect your team's flank. Idle torpedo tubes are the worst output state.
8 km range, 20 s duration. Detects all enemy ships within a fixed radius regardless of line-of-sight. Controls caps and punishes smoke-firing DDs.
237.7 mm AP pen at 1.5 km, best of T6 DDs. Citadels broadside cruisers up close.
75.5 mm AP pen at max range, top decile of T6 DDs. Threatens citadels even from range.
2200.0 damage per HE shell, best of T6 DDs. Punishes superstructure and modules harder than peers.
60.0° AP min ricochet angle, best of T6 DDs. Larger impact-angle window where shells always penetrate.
120.0 s torpedo reload, bottom decile of T6 DDs. Long wait between drops.
Hughes is a Tech Tree ship. The normal acquisition path is researching and purchasing it in its nation/class line. Official source cards below may also show its temporary Early Access window before it became a normal Tech Tree unlock.
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Where Hughes sits among Tier VI DDs (40 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 Hughes -- 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
Smoke Generator2 charges · 240 s reload · 15 s emit / 121 s cloud activeAll 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.
Shell grouping (sigma); shown in-game as Shell Grouping.Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model: $\sigma_H = \left(\dfrac{R}{30}\cdot\dfrac{\text{idealRadius}-\text{minRadius}}{\text{idealDistance}} + \text{minRadius}\right)\cdot 30$ $= \left(\dfrac{9910}{30}\cdot\dfrac{8-0.5}{1000} + 0.5\right)\cdot 30 = 89.3\,\text{m}$Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $\sigma_V = \sigma_H \cdot \text{radiusOnMax}$ $= 89.3 \cdot 0.6 = 53.6\,\text{m}$50%-hit horizontal radius: $\sigma_{H,50} = \sigma_H \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 89.3 \cdot 0.319\;(\sigma = 2) = 28.5\,\text{m}$50%-hit vertical radius: $\sigma_{V,50} = \sigma_V \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 53.6 \cdot 0.319\;(\sigma = 2) = 17.1\,\text{m}$Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{-1.07} \cdot v_0^{1.38}$ $= 10^{-7}\cdot 2750 \cdot 30^{0.69} \cdot 0.127^{-1.07} \cdot 830^{1.38} = 279.1\,\text{mm}$. Matches the in-game spec card.Same formula at the ship's max firing range (13.6 km), where the shell has slowed to 321.9 m/s: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot 2750 \cdot 30^{0.69} \cdot 0.127^{-1.07} \cdot 321.9^{1.38} = 75.5\,\text{mm}$.21 mm ≈ 127 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).floor(127 mm caliber / 14.3) = 8 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 4 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 11 deg/s traverse speed = 16.4 s.2,200 HE damage x 4 broadside guns = 8,800.3,300 AP damage x 4 broadside guns = 13,200.8,800 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5 s base reload = 105,600.13,200 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 5 s base reload = 158,400.4 broadside guns x 60 / 5 s base reload = 48.4 HE shells x 60 / 5 s reload x 9% fire chance = 4.32.detectability / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).range / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).2 launchers x 4 tubes.8 (centerline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 20,880 = 167,040.One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 20,880 = 167,040.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (18×3.5×0.95) + (18×3.5×1) = 123. 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.Filtered to official World of Warships: Legends pages where this ship is a focus, reward, line member, or high-context variant mention.