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Product Description ■ The only former Japanese Navy battleship handed over to the Maritime Self-Defense Force!
The DE 261 "Wakaba" is the only destroyer in the Maritime Self-Defense Force that operates a vessel of the former Navy. Navy. The Tachibana-class destroyer Nashi, its predecessor, sank in the Seto Inland Sea in July 1945 (1945) due to an attack by an American carrier-based aircraft.
After the war, it was salvaged in 1954 (1954), and its repair work was completed in May 1956 (1956). It was recommissioned as a patrol vessel to the newly inaugurated Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Initially operated as an unarmed training vessel, but later it was equipped with a 76 mm multiple gun and a Hedgehog anti-submarine missile launcher.
In 1960 (1960), it was equipped with the SPS-8B high-angle measuring radar, which was the only equipment in the destroyer JS Hashikami.
Until its expulsion in 1971 (1971), it served as an experimental vessel in the Commercial Experimental Fleet (currently the Development Fleet).
・ 1/700 Scale Plastic Model
・ Offshore model / full hull model selectable
・ Equipped with sonar, Tachibana-class destroyer with bottom parts
・ Total length : approx. 142 mm
・ One vessel
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Scale : 1/700