Heller 57093 Starter Kit Escorteurs Rapides E 5O 1/400

Heller 57093 Starter Kit Escorteurs Rapides E 5O 1/400Contains Glue • Brush • Main Colours In the late 1940s the National Navy thought of equipping itself with escort ships more or less derived from the Cannon class escort destroyers US-DE of which the French Navy owned 14 copies. The preliminary design featured a ship with a smooth decker type hull as in the US-DE but certain elements were inspired by the British type River of which six copies were also used in the French National Navy. The original 1948 project envisaged an armament consisting of a 105 mm cannon two 40 mm sets of four quickly replaced by two twin sets of Bofor's cannons of 57 mm with open shutter four 20 mm oerlikon one or two ship mortars with a cutout in the superstructure allowing for a subsequent installation of gate pedorear ear pedorear illingssätzen was possible. In addition the final setup featured three 57mm gun turret double barrels/60 ACAD remote controls model 1952 two 20mm Oerlikon four torpedo tube treble sets of 550mm and a Bofors Mle 54 six-speed rocket launcher of 375mm. In 1949 two ships the C 1 and C 2 were ordered which were quickly followed by the C 3 and C4.