TAMIYA TAM78029 MISSOURI Military Scale Model Gray

Model Ship / Scale 1:350 / grey

Tamiya Models USS Missouri BB-63 Circa 1991 Model Kit Model:TM78029Description: An Intimidating PresenceThe Iowa-class was the final and largest of four U.S. battleship classes that were commissioned during WWII. The third of them was the USS Missouri in June 1944. It was assigned to the Pacific Theater and participated in action around Okinawa Iwo... moreJima and the main Japanese islands. In fact the signing ceremony of Japan's surrender documents took place on the Missouri's decks on September 3 1945. Following the end of the Korean War she was mothballed at the reserve fleet anchorage. Come 1986 however she was refitted with various modern weaponry such as Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles in addition to Vulcan and Phalanx weapons to rejoin the U.S. Navy. Along with her sister ship the Wisconsin the Missouri was deployed in the Gulf War in 1991 and fired some 28 Tomahawk cruise missiles on the first day of the conflict. In total she fired in excess of 750 16-inch rounds in support of land troops. In March 1992 she was decommissioned once more after some 50 years of service and she now resides in Pearl Harbor as a museum ship._1/350 scale plastic display model assembly kit of the USS Battleship Missouri as she appeared in the Gulf War of 1991. _Length: 774mm Width: 94.5mm Height: 182mm. _Exceptionally detailed scale reproduction includes accurate depictions of the bridge Tomahawk launcher deck aft deck dome-shaped radar No.1 turret ventilator deck ventilator and more. _Narrow beam bow and 4 screws on the hull are all faithfully recreated. _12.7cm DP gun turrets Mk 38 fire director and Mk 13 radar are also depicted. _Modelers can choose from 2 sets of photo-etched parts to recreate air- and surface-search radars and discone antenna. _Includes wire to recreate cables _Comes with display stand.