Product Description

- Aoshima's water line has been renewed with more precision!!

- A 1/700 scale plastic model kit of the Japanese Navy aircraft carrier [Hiryu], known for its success in the early days of the Pacific War and for its bravery at the Battle of Midway.
- The parts structure is simple and easy to assemble, and can be accurately reproduced.
- In addition to various equipment such as regular machine guns and high-angle guns, a newly designed anti-aircraft firearm with a shield (smoke shield) on the starboard side where the chimney is located has been added.

- Achieves dense and precise molding using a slide mold!!
- Mainly weapons such as destroyer main guns and machine guns, carrier-based aircraft and various equipment have also been updated!!

[Outfitting parts renewed with new molds]
・Type 94 shooting device
・Type 89 12.7cm twin high-angle gun
・Type 89 12.7cm twin high-angle gun (smoke shield)
・Type 96 25mm twin machine gun
・Type 96 25mm twin machine gun (smoke shield)
・Type 96 25mm triple machine gun
・12m fire lunch
・12m fireboat
・Radial davit
・9m cutter
・Chrysanthemum emblem
·anchor

[Ship type: Aircraft carrier]
[Country: Japan]

[Ship history]
- The aircraft carriers [Hiryu] and [Soryu] were built under the London Disarmament Treaty in 1933, and were part of the 1933 disarmament expansion plan.
- First, [Soryu] was completed at the end of 2012, but further improvements were made to this [Soryu], and [Hiryu] was completed at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on July 5, 1939.
- Based on the operational experience of the previously completed [Soryu] and [Kaga], it was decided that the bridge would be installed in the center of the hull so as not to interfere with the aircraft taking off, but on the starboard side. It was decided that the ship would be placed on the port side in order to reach the top of the chimney.
- Although the arrangement was favorable in terms of weight distribution, it was discovered that the air currents generated from the bridge had a negative effect on carrier-based aircraft landing on the ship.
- Therefore, aircraft carriers built after this time had a bridge on the starboard side, so Hiryu and Akagi were the only ones with a bridge on the port side, giving them a unique appearance.
- However, she became an extremely successful and powerful aircraft carrier, with features such as high speed performance exceeding 34 knots, improved hull strength, improved defense capabilities, and a carrying capacity of 57 aircraft.
- [Hiryu]'s military history includes support for the invasion of the continent in 1945, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1945, the capture of Wake Island, the sweep of Java and New Guinea, and the Indian Ocean. During the operation, the bomber squadron carried on board had an amazing hit rate, and was successful in sinking the British aircraft carrier [Hermes] and the heavy cruiser [Cornwall].
- Then, at the end of May 1945, [Hiryu] left Japan to participate in the fateful Battle of Midway.
- Early in the morning on June 5, 1945, Captain Tomonaga of the Hiryu judged that the first attack was insufficient and requested a land attack, and ordered the equipment of the air force that matched the attack equipment of the ships waiting on the mother ship. This led to a hectic situation in which they had to switch to land attack equipment.
- In addition, in the unusual situation where a reconnaissance aircraft reported the discovery of an enemy task force and the equipment of the air force was changed to ship attack equipment again, a US naval bomb squadron flew in and dive-bombed [Akagi] [Kaga] All three of the [Soryu] ships burst into flames in an instant.
- [Hiryu] was the only ship left unscathed, so he launched an attack on the US aircraft carrier, rendering the US aircraft carrier [Yorktown] unable to navigate.
- However, during the bombing raids of attack forces launched from the remaining two aircraft carriers, four bombs hit the ship, and two close-in hits caused the ship to burst into flames and become unable to navigate.
- Under the judgment that rescue was hopeless, two destroyers, Arashi and Nowaki, carried out torpedo strikes, and the ship was thought to have sunk, but it was later found drifting without sinking. The aircraft on board discovered it and hurriedly went to rescue it, but by the time they arrived at the scene, the ship was gone.

*The images shown are prototypes.



Item Size/Weight : 39 x 14.5 x 6 cm / 300g

Product Specifications

Item series

Water Line

Country

Japan

Item code

066553

JAN code

4905083066553

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