Product Description
The only former Imperial Japanese Navy combat ship handed over to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force!
DE-261 Wakaba is the only destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force that operates former Imperial Japanese Navy vessels.
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).
Shortly after its establishment, it was recommissioned as a patrol ship for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Initially operated as an unarmed training ship, it was later refitted with twin 76mm guns and Hedgehog anti-submarine missile launchers.
In 1960, the SPS-8B high-angle radar, the only equipment on an escort ship, was installed on the bridge, and the ship served as an experimental ship in the Practical Experimental Squadron (now the Development Squadron) until it was decommissioned in 1971.
・1/700 scale plastic model
・Offshore model/full hull model selectable
-Includes Tachibana-class destroyer hull bottom parts with added sonar
Total length: approx. 142mm
・1 vessel
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Product Specifications
- Item code
- SPJ04
- JAN code
- 4986470074566
Purchase Information
This item is limited to 3 per household.