1/700 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Defense Ship DE-261 Wakaba
$26.00
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■Product Description
The only former Imperial Japanese Navy warship to be taken over by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force!
DE-261 "Wakaba" is the only destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force that has operated a former Imperial Japanese Navy vessel. Its predecessor, the Tachibana-class destroyer Nashi, was sunk in the Seto Inland Sea in July 1945 (Showa 20) by an attack by American carrier-based aircraft. After the war, it was salvaged in 1954 (Showa 29) and restoration work was completed in May 1956 (Showa 31). It was recommissioned as a patrol ship for the newly established Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Initially, it was operated as an unarmed training ship, but later modifications equipped it with 76mm twin guns and Hedgehog anti-submarine projectile launchers. In 1960, the ship was equipped with the SPS-8B high-angle measuring radar, which became the only such equipment on a destroyer, and it served as an experimental ship in the Practical Experimentation Squadron (now the Development Squadron) until it was decommissioned in 1971.
・1/700 scale plastic model
・Waterline model/full hull model selectable
・Includes Tachibana-class destroyer hull bottom parts with added sonar
・Overall length: approx. 142mm
・1 ship included
■Product Specifications
Manufacturer: Pit-Road
Item No: SPJ04
Scale: 1/700
JAN: 4986470074566
1/700 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Defense Ship DE-261 Wakaba
$26.00
The only former Imperial Japanese Navy warship to be taken over by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force!
DE-261 "Wakaba" is the only destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force that has operated a former Imperial Japanese Navy vessel. Its predecessor, the Tachibana-class destroyer Nashi, was sunk in the Seto Inland Sea in July 1945 (Showa 20) by an attack by American carrier-based aircraft. After the war, it was salvaged in 1954 (Showa 29) and restoration work was completed in May 1956 (Showa 31). It was recommissioned as a patrol ship for the newly established Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Initially, it was operated as an unarmed training ship, but later modifications equipped it with 76mm twin guns and Hedgehog anti-submarine projectile launchers. In 1960, the ship was equipped with the SPS-8B high-angle measuring radar, which became the only such equipment on a destroyer, and it served as an experimental ship in the Practical Experimentation Squadron (now the Development Squadron) until it was decommissioned in 1971.
・1/700 scale plastic model
・Waterline model/full hull model selectable
・Includes Tachibana-class destroyer hull bottom parts with added sonar
・Overall length: approx. 142mm
・1 ship included
■Product Specifications
Manufacturer: Pit-Road
Item No: SPJ04
Scale: 1/700
JAN: 4986470074566