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When cargo ships arrive at their destination port after thousands of nautical miles, they still have a difficult stretch ahead of them. This is where the harbor tugboats come into play, taking command and pulling the huge ships safely to the dock. The tugboats do not take on cargo, but are used to haul and maneuver large tankers and cargo ships. These small, robust, but very maneuverable vessels have very powerful engines ranging from 250 to several thousand horsepower. Their conning bridges are designed as high superstructures in order to guarantee, in accordance with their task, good all-round visibility for safe guidance through the narrow port area. The stern, bow and sides are usually reinforced and additionally equipped with wickerwork.

Features

• One-Piece Hull
• Ram Protection
• Structured Superstructure
• Lifeboat
• Two Masts
• Lifeboat And Dinghy
• Captain And Two Sailors
• Two Display Stands
• Detailed Decals

Hayabusa is the name of a class of modern Japanese rocket boats. Units of this type entered service in 2002-2004. In total, six units of this type were built. The Hayabusa-class ships are 50.1 meters long and 8.4 meters wide. Full displacement is around 240 tons and the maximum speed is clearly over 40 knots. They are armed with: four SSM-1B missile launchers, a single 76 mm cannon and two 12.7 mm machine guns. The Hayabusa class currently consists of six units: Hayabusa (lead unit), Wakataka, Otaka, Kumataka, Umitaka and Shiritaka. All these units were built at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Shimonoseki. Hayabusa-class boats were developed to replace the PG-class units in the line, i.e. the Italian Sparviero class, produced under license in Japan. Compared to their predecessors, the new units differ in almost every element: they are much larger, have a significantly larger crew, a larger radius of action, better seafaring and more elaborate electronic equipment. Units of this type are primarily used for patrol duty.

This is an injection-plastic ship model kit.

Includes

• 2x Full kits of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force's missile crafts, Wakataka and KumatakaHayabusa and Umitaka
• P-3C Orion anti-submarine aircraft
• Exploded-view pictorial-type instructions, with color callouts and notes in Chinese, English, French, German, and Japanese.

Sachsen-Class Frigate

The Sachsen-class is the German Navy's latest class of highly advanced air-defense frigates.

The design of the Sachsen-class frigate is based on that of the F123 Brandenburg class but with enhanced stealth features designed to deceive an opponent's radar and acoustic sensors.

The class incorporates an advanced multifunction radar APAR and a SMART-L long-range radar which is purported to be capable of detecting stealth aircraft and stealth missiles.

Features

Kit comes with photo-etched parts, clear parts, and decals for three versions.

Detailed kit of the Uji builds into a waterline model.

Uji was the second and final vessel in the Hashidate-class gunboats in the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s.

Kaiwo Maru was a Japanese training sailing ship, a twin ship Nippon Maru, launched in 1930. The length of the ship at the time of launching was 97 m, width 12.95 m, and full displacement - 2,290 tons. Kaiwo Maru was never armed. It was a four-masted ship with a total sail area of 2,397 square meters, but it had an additional propulsion in the form of two diesel engines with a power of 600 HP each.

The Kaiwo Maru was built at Kawasaki's Kobe shipyard and originally served as a training unit for Japanese merchant navy officers. When the war in the Pacific began, it was incorporated into the navy, continuing to serve as a training unit. The ship survived the war and continued to serve in the fleet after its end. In 1955 its rigging was modernized. Kaiwo Maru served until 1989. At present, she is a museum ship moored in the port of Imizu.

Aoshima's full-hull kit of the Kaiwo Maru features vacuformed sails, a display stand, twine for rigging, and cloth flags. Also includes a nice selection of white metal detail parts. At 1/150 scale this beauty will measure 64.7cm long, 15.3cm wide, and 37.5cm tall when completed.

This is an injection-plastic sailing ship model kit.

Yamashita Hobby brings to you this highly detailed 1/700 scale plastic model kit of the "NV3U Special Type Destroyers Type II Ayanami" as shown in the photos. This kit includes runners molded in gray and clear parts, as well as an instruction manual in Japanese. Order today!