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Category Name: Amphibious Ship
Category heading title: Philcrafter, Inc. - Ampibios Ship
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A collection of Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA),Landing Helicopter
Dock (LHD), Landing Platform Dock (LPD), Landing Platform
Helicopter (LPH), Landing Ship Dock (LSD), Landing Ship Dock
(Auxiliary) LSD, Landing Ship Logistics (LSL), Landing Ship Tank
(LST)
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Helicopter Assault (LHA),Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD),
Platform Dock (LPD), Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH),
Ship Dock (LSD), Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliary) LSD,
Ship Logistics (LSL), Landing Ship Tank (LST)
USS LST-24
Length: 24”
Landing Ship, Tank (LST) was the military designation for naval vessels
created during World War II to support amphibious operations by carrying
significant quantities of vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto an
unimproved shore.
The majority, a thousand, were laid down in the United States during WWII for
use by the Allies. Eighty more were built in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Price: 595
USS Arizona (BB-39)
Length: 26”
The USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States
Navy. The vessel was the third to be named in honor of the 48th state, though the first
since its statehood was actually achieved. She was commissioned in 1916 and saw
action in World War I. The USS Arizona is best known for her cataclysmic and
dramatic sinking, with the loss of 1,177 lives, during the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor on 7 December 1941, the event that brought about U.S. involvement in World
War II. The wreck was not salvaged, and continues to lie at the floor of the harbor. It
is the site of a memorial to those who perished on that day.
Price: 1,000
USS Essex (LHD-2)
Length: 26”
USS Essex (LHD-2) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship built at what is now the
Northrop Grumman Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and commissioned on 17
October 1992 while moored at North Island NAS beside the Kitty Hawk (CV-63).
Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense in the first Bush Administration, spoke at
the commissioning ceremony.
Price: 1,000
USS Nassau (LHA-4)
Length: 26”
The second USS Nassau (LHA-4) is a Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship. She is
capable of transporting over 3,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
She has 1,400 compartments—about the same number as a large hotel, has nine
elevators and two horizontal conveyors—more than most department stores. She has 2
boilers—the largest ever manufactured for the United States Navy. They can generate
a total of 400 tons of steam per hour and develop 140,000 horsepower (104 MW)—
equivalent to the power of more than 700 average automobiles. Nassau's electrical
power subsystem creates 14 MW to provide electrical power for the ship—adequate
electrical power to light 11,500 homes for 50,000 people. She has air conditioning
equipment rated at a total of 1500 tons (5.3 MW)—sufficient to environmentally
control a 32-storey office building or 500 average homes and can ballast 12,000 tons
of seawater for trimming the ship to receive and discharge landing craft from the well
deck.
Price: 1,000
USS Saipan (LHA-2)
Length: 26”
USS Saipan (LHA-2) is a Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship, the second United
States Navy ship named in honor of the World War II Battle of Saipan.
Saipan was laid down on July 21, 1972 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, Litton
Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched on July 20, 1974; sponsored by Mrs. J.
William Middendorf II, wife of Secretary of the Navy Middendorf.
Saipan’s operational career began in July 1979 when she was diverted from Fleet
Refresher Training to Special Contingency Operations for possible non-combatant
evacuation of American personnel from Nicaragua during that country’s civil war.
Price: 1,000
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BATTLESHIP
Category heading title: Philcrafter, Inc. - Battleship
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HMS King George V
Scale: 1/350
Length 25.5”
The first HMS King George V was a King George V-class of 1911 dreadnought, with
a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of ten 13.5 inch guns in twin gun
turrets and a secondary armament of sixteen 4 inch guns and had a crew complement
of 870, though this increased substantially by 1916 to 1,110, and had a length of
597 feet.
She took part in the Battle of Jutland, being the lead ship of the 1st Division of the
2nd Battle Squadron. Her sister-ships were HMS Centurion, HMS Audacious and
HMS Ajax.
HMS Audacious was sunk by a mine off the northern coast of Ireland, the rest
survived World War I and were all decommissioned by 1924. King George V herself
was decommissioned in 1919, used as a training ship between 1923-26 and scrapped
in 1926.
Price: 599
KM BISMARCK
Scale: 1/350
Length:29:
The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second
World War. The lead ship of her class and named after the 19th century German
chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck displaced more than 50,000 tons fully loaded
and was the largest warship then commissioned. Her chief claim to fame came from
the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941 during which the battlecruiser HMS
Hood, flagship of the Home Fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, was sunk within
several minutes. In response, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the
order to "Sink the Bismarck",[2] spurring a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy. Two
days later, with safer waters almost in reach, Fleet Air Arm aircraft torpedoed
Bismarck and jammed her rudder, allowing heavy British units to catch up with her.
In the ensuing battle on the morning of 27 May 1941, Bismarck took heavy
punishment for nearly three hours before sinking.
Price: 750/1,249
Montana class battleship
Scale: 1/350
Length:31”
The Montana class battleships of the United States Navy were the proposed
successors to the Iowa class, being slower, but larger, better armored, and carrying
more guns. Five ships of the Montana class were approved for construction during
World War II; however, changes in building priority during the War resulted in
cancellation of the new battleship class in favor of the Essex-class aircraft carriers
before any of the keels for the Montana class were laid.
With an intended armament of twelve 16-inch guns and more anti-aircraft capability
than the preceding Iowa-class battleships, the Montana class would have been the
largest and the most heavily armed battleship class ever put to sea by the United
States. The Montana class would have been the only battleship class commissioned
by the U.S. to have come close to equaling the Empire of Japan's Yamato-class
battleships on the basis of armor, armament, and tonnage.[7]
Price: 699
USS Arizona (BB-39)
Scale: 1/350
Length:21”
The USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States
Navy. The vessel was the third to be named in honor of the 48th state, though the first
since its statehood was actually achieved. She was commissioned in 1916 and saw
action in World War I. The USS Arizona is best known for her cataclysmic and
dramatic sinking, with the loss of 1,177 lives, during the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor on 7 December 1941, the event that brought about U.S. involvement in World
War II. The wreck was not salvaged, and continues to lie at the floor of the harbor. It
is the site of a memorial to those who perished on that day.
Price: 599/597/1,495
USS Missouri (BB-63)
Scale: 1/350
Length:31”
USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy battleship, and
was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of
Missouri. Missouri is the final battleship to be built by the United States, and among
the Iowa-class battleships is notable for being the site of the surrender of the Empire
of Japan at the end of World War II. Missouri was ordered on 12 June 1940 and her
keel was laid at the New York Navy Yard in the New York City borough of Brooklyn
on 6 January 1941.
During her career Missouri saw action in World War II during the Battle of Iwo Jima
and the Battle of Okinawa, and shelled the Japanese home islands of Hokkaidō and
Honshū. After World War II she returned to the United States before being called up
and dispatched to fight in the Korean War. Upon her return to the United States she
was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the
"Mothball Fleet" in 1955. She was reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part of the
600-ship Navy plan, and participated in the 1991 Gulf War.
Price: 599/1,079/1,499
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
Span:
Length:
3.75"
30.5"
USS New Jersey (BB-62), ("Big J" or "Black Dragon") is an Iowa-class battleship,
and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S.
state of New Jersey. Among the four completed Iowa-class battleships New Jersey is
notable for having earned the most battle stars for her combat actions, and for being
the only battleship of the class to have served a tour of duty in Vietnam during the
Vietnam War.
During World War II the New Jersey shelled targets on Guam and Okinawa, and
screened aircraft carriers conducting raids in the Marshall islands. During the Korean
War she was involved in raids up and down the North Korean coast, after which she
was decommissioned in to the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the
"mothball fleet". She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to Vietnam to support
U.S. troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969. Reactivated once more in
the 1980s as part of the 600-ship Navy program, New Jersey was modernized to carry
missiles and recommissioned for service. In 1983, she participated in U.S. operations
during the Lebanese Civil War.
Price: 597/999
Japanese battleship Yamato
Scale: 1/350. Length 30 inches
Yamato (大和), named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was a battleship
of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was lead ship of her class. She and her sister
Musashi were the largest, heaviest, and most powerful battleships ever constructed,
displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load, and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) main
guns.
The ship held special significance for the Empire of Japan as a symbol of the nation's
naval power ('Yamato' was sometimes used to refer to Japan itself), and its sinking by
US aircraft in the final days of the war during the suicide Operation Ten-Go is
sometimes considered symbolic of Japan's defeat itself.
BOAT
Fast Patrol Craft (PCF)
Scale: 1/30
Length:20”
Fast Patrol Craft (PCF), also known as Swift Boats, were all aluminum, 50-foot
(15 m) long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy for
counterinsurgency (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War.
Price: 425
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300)
Length: 31”
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300), the lead ship of her class of vehicle cargo ships for
Army vehicle prepositioning, was the only naval ship of the United States to be
named for the entertainer. Very few ships of the United States Navy have been named
for a person who was alive at the time of the christening.
The contract to build her was awarded to Avondale Industries on 2 September 1993
and her keel was laid down on 29 May 1995. She was launched on 27 March 1997,
and delivered on 18 November 1998.
Price: 999
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
Length: 31”
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), nicknamed "Abe", is the fifth Nimitz-class
supercarrier in the United States Navy. She is the second Navy ship named after
former president Abraham Lincoln. Her home port is Everett, Washington.
Price: 897/1,499
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
Length: 35”
The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, is the second naval
ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first
powered airplane flight. With the decommissioning of USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
in 2007, the Kitty Hawk became the first and last active ship of her class.
Kitty Hawk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New
Jersey, 27 December 1956; and launched 21 May 1960, sponsored by Mr. Neil H.
McElroy; and commissioned 21 April 1961 at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Captain
William F. Bringle in command.
Price: 1,199
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
Length: 37”
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a supercarrier in the United States Navy, the lead ship of its
class. She is one of the largest warships in the world. She was laid down, launched
and commissioned as CVAN-68, but was redesignated CVN-68 (nuclear-powered
multimission aircraft carrier) on 30 June 1975 as part of the fleet realignment of that
year.
Price: 1,199/1,499
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
Length: 38”
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier in the
service of the United States Navy. The ninth ship of her class, she was named in
honor of former President Ronald Reagan.
Price: 999/1,199/1,499
USS America (CV-66)
Length: 30”
The third USS America (CV-66), formerly CVA-66, was a Kitty Hawk class
supercarrier of the United States Navy that served from 1965 to 1996.
Originally ordered as an Enterprise-class nuclear carrier, the ballooning costs of
Enterprise during construction caused the cancellation of the nuclear CVAN-66 and
her reordering as a conventionally-powered Kitty Hawk-class carrier.[citation needed] She
was laid down on 1 January 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp.; launched on 1 February 1964, sponsored by Mrs.
David L. McDonald, wife of Admiral David L. McDonald, the Chief of Naval
Operations; and commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 23 January 1965,
Captain Lawrence Heyworth, Jr., in command.[1]
Price: 999
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
Scale: 1/350
The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is a United States Navy Nimitz class supercarrier
named after Carl Vinson, a Congressman from Georgia.
She was commissioned in 1982 and carries F/A-18 Hornets and F/A-18E/F Super
Hornets as well as surveillance and other aircraft. Carl Vinson can carry 85 planes and
5,500 personnel. Traditionally, few ships of the United States Navy were named after
a person who was alive at the time of the christening, but recently the number has
increased; the list includes Carl Vinson, Hyman G. Rickover, Arleigh Burke, John C.
Stennis, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Nitze, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush.
A member of the United States House of Representatives for fifty years, Carl Vinson
was, for twenty-nine years, the Chairman of the House Naval Affairs and Armed
Services Committee.
Price: 897/1,499
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
Scale: 1/350
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), nicknamed "Ike", is the second of 10 Nimitzclass supercarriers in the United States Navy, named after the thirty-fourth President
of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Originally, she was named Eisenhower,
much like her sister, Nimitz. On May 25, 1970, the name was lengthened to Dwight D.
Eisenhower. On commissioning, Ike replaced the aged World War II-era carrier USS
Franklin D. Roosevelt in the fleet.
Price: 897/1,499
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United
States Navy, named after the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman.
The keel was laid by Newport News Shipbuilding on 29 November 1993 and the ship
was christened on 7 September 1996. The official launching of the ship was on 13
September 1996. The crew moved aboard ship from contract housing in Newport
News in January 1998. The ship successfully completed builder's trials on 11 June
1998 and acceptance sea trials on 25 June 1998 before being commissioned on 25
July 1998. The builder's trials and sea trials were delayed from the initial scheduling
dates in May 1998 due to noise issues in one of the reactor closure heads during
hydrostatic testing. HST was authorized as USS United States but her name was
changed before the keel laying.
USS Hornet (CV-8)
Length: 37”
The seventh USS Hornet (CV-8) of the United States Navy was a Yorktown class
aircraft carrier of World War II, notable for launching the Doolittle Raid, as a
participant in the Battle of Midway, and for action in the Solomons before being sunk
in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
She was launched 14 December 1940 by Newport News Shipbuilding of Newport
News, Virginia, sponsored by Annie Reid Knox (wife of Secretary of the Navy Frank
M. Knox), and commissioned at Norfolk 20 October 1941, Captain Marc A. Mitscher
in command.
Price: 1,079/1,499
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Length: 37”
USS Yorktown (CV/CVS-10) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States
Navy that served in the Pacific during World War II, and is now a museum ship at
Patriot's Point , Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Launched in 1943, Yorktown is the
oldest surviving aircraft carrier still intact.[citation needed]
She was laid down on 1 December 1941 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport
News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Bon Homme Richard, renamed Yorktown on 26
September 1942 to commemorate Yorktown (CV-5), lost at the Battle of Midway. The
new Yorktown was launched on 21 January 1943, sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt,
and commissioned on 15 April 1943 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Captain Joseph J.
Clark in command, ready to avenge the death of her older namesake sister
Price: 1,097/1,499
USS Gearing (DD-710)
Scale: 1/192. Length 24 inches
USS Gearing (DD-710) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United
States Navy. She was named for three generations of the Gearing family, Commander
Henry Chalfant Gearing, Sr., Captain Henry Chalfant Gearing, Jr. and Lieutenant
Henry Chalfant Gearing, III.
Gearing was launched 18 February 1945 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.,
Kearny, New Jersey; sponsored by Mrs. Thomas M. Foley, daughter of Commander
Gearing; and commissioned 3 May 1945, Commander T. H. Copeman in command.
Price: 6/75/597/999
USS Chancellorsville (CG-62)
USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in
service in the United States Navy. She is named for the remarkable Confederate
victory over Union forces under Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville,
Virginia. United States Navy ships are rarely named for Confederate victories in the
American Civil War.
USS Lake Champlain (CG-57)
USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) is a Ticonderoga class cruiser in the United States
Navy. It is the third ship to be named Lake Champlain, in honor of Battle of Lake
Champlain, which took place during the War of 1812.
USS Chicago (CA-136)
The USS Chicago (CA-136) was a heavy cruiser laid down on 28 July 1943 at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, by the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Launched on 20
August 1944 she was sponsored by Mrs. Edward J. Kelly, wife of the Mayor of
Chicago, Illinois, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 10 January
1945, Captain Richard R. Hartung, USN, in command.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
Length: 28”
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States
Navy. She holds a place in history due to the notorious circumstances of her demise,
which was the worst single at-sea loss of life in the history of the U.S. Navy. After
delivering critical parts for the first atomic bomb to be used in combat to the United
States air base at Tinian Island on July 26, 1945, she was in the Philippine Sea when
attacked at 00:14 on July 30, 1945 by a Japanese submarine. Most of the crew was
lost to a combination of exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks as they waited for
assistance while floating helplessly for several days. Indianapolis was the last major
U.S. Navy ship sunk by enemy action in World War II (the submarine USS Bullhead
was attacked by Japanese aircraft with depth charges and sunk on August 6, 1945).
Price: 999
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
Length: 27.5”
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke, USN
(1901-1996), is the lead ship of her class of guided missile destroyers. She was laid
down by Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine on 6 December 1988, launched on 16
September 1989 by Mrs. Arleigh Burke. The Admiral himself was present at her
commissioning ceremony on 4 July 1991, held on the waterfront in downtown
Norfolk.
Price: 1,250
USS Howard (DDG-83)
USS Howard (DDG-83) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States
Navy. The ship is named in honor of Gunnery Sgt. Jimmie E. Howard, USMC,
(1929–1993), recipient of the Medal of Honor for his leadership of a platoon against
repeated attacks by a battalion-sized Viet Cong force. After receiving severe wounds
from an enemy grenade, he distributed ammunition to his men and directed air strikes
on the enemy. By dawn, his beleaguered platoon still held their position. Howard also
received the Silver Star Medal for service in Korea. A previous USS Howard (DD179) (1920–1945), named for Charles W. Howard, a U.S. Navy hero from the Civil
War, earned six battle stars in World War II.
USS Gridley (DDG-101)
The fourth USS Gridley (DDG-101) is the fifty-first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in
the United States Navy. Gridley is named after Captain Charles Gridley, Commander
of Admiral George Dewey's flagship Olympia, (Flag Captain) and recipient of
Admiral Dewey's famous command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" in
the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
In May 2004, the Secretary of the Navy announced the names of five new Arleigh
Burke class destroyers, including Gridley. Her keel was laid on 30 July 2004 at the
Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was christened 11 February 2006. The Gridley
was commissioned at the Port of Miami on Saturday, February 10, 2007.
She has joined the Pacific Fleet and is homeported at Naval Base San Diego.
USS Halsey (DDG-97)
USS Halsey (DDG-97) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the
United States Navy. Halsey is named in honor of Fleet Admiral William Frederick
"Bull" Halsey Jr. Halsey was commissioned July 30, 2005 at Naval Air Station North
Island, Coronado, California, under commanding officer Commander James L.
Autrey.[1][2]
USS Kidd (DDG-993)
USS Kidd (DDG-993) was the lead ship in her class of destroyers operated by the
U.S. Navy. Derived from the Spruance class, these vessels were designed for air
defense in hot weather. The vessel was named after Medal of Honor recipient Rear
Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl
Harbor, and was the first American flag officer to die in World War II.
Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7
Length: 28”
The Oliver Hazard Perry class (sometimes referred to as the Perry class or FFG-7
class), is a class of frigates named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The class
was designed in the United States in the mid-1970s as general-purpose escort vessels,
capable of most naval operations, yet cheap enough to be bought in large quantities to
replace World War II-era destroyers. 55 ships were built in the United States: 51 for
the United States Navy and four for the Royal Australian Navy. Additionally, 8 were
built in Taiwan, 6 in Spain and 2 in Australia for their respective navies, and ex-USN
ships have been acquired by the navies of Bahrain, Egypt, Poland and Turkey, with
Pakistan requesting six ships in 2007.
Price: 999
USS Thach (FFG-43)
USS Thach (FFG-43), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is a ship of the United
States Navy named for Admiral John Thach (1905–1981), a naval aviator during
World War II, who invented the Thach Weave dog fighting tactic.
Thach was laid down on 6 March 1981 by the Todd Pacific Shipyards Co., Los
Angeles Division, San Pedro, Ca.; launched on 18 December 1982; and
commissioned on 17 March 1983.
USS_Cole_DDG-67
Length: 28”
The second USS Cole (DDG-67) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis-equipped guided
missile destroyer homeported in NS Norfolk, Virginia. The Cole is named in honor of
Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine-gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19
February 1945. The ship was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and delivered to the Navy
on 11 March 1996.
On October 12, 2000, the Cole was damaged by a suicide attack while harbored in the
Yemeni port of Aden.
Price: 1,249
USS Liberty (AGTR-5)
Length: 27”
USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was a Belmont-class technical research ship. Her keel was
laid down on February 23, 1945, as Simmons Victory, a Maritime Commission-type
(VC2-S-AP3) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract at Oregon Shipbuilding
Corporation of Portland, Oregon. She was delivered to the Maritime Commission on
May 4, 1945, and chartered to the Pacific Far East Line of San Francisco, California.
She operated in commercial trade until 1958, Simmons Victory was returned to the
Maritime Administration for layup in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Olympia,
Washington.
Price: 995
Akula Project 971
Scale: 1/240. Length 29 inches
Project 971 Щука-Б (Shchuka-B, 'Shchuka' meaning pike, NATO reporting name
"Akula"), is a nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) first deployed by the Soviet
Navy in 1986. The class is sometimes erroneously called the "Bars" class, after one of
its members. Note that Akula ("shark") is the Soviet designation of the ballistic
missile submarine class designated by NATO as the Typhoon class submarine. They
are sometimes bitterly called "the Walker class," referring to John Anthony Walker,
whose espionage data related to sonar detection was used to improve this submarine.
Price: 599.95
Alfa Russian Project 705
Scale: 1/30. Length 24 1/2 inches.
The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 (Лира/Lyra) was a submarine class of
hunter/killer nuclear powered vessels (abbreviated PLA = Podvodnaya lodka
atomnaya, i.e. nuclear /hunter killer/ submarine). The class is also known by the
NATO reporting name of Alfa. They were the fastest and one of the deepest diving
military submarines built, with only the K-278 Komsomolets competing in crush
depth.
Price: 399
Gato class submarine
Scale: 1/160
Length: 24”
The United States Navy Gato class submarine design was rushed into production in
1940 and was the forerunner of all US World War II submarine designs. The class
was 77 strong and sunk more than 1,700,000 tons of Japanese shipping. New
construction of the class began in 1941 as the war in Europe escalated. More than half
the class was built at Electric Boat at Groton, Connecticut; 3 new slipways were
added to the north yard to accommodate their production.
Price: 399
Los Angeles class
Scale: 1/165
The Los Angeles class, sometimes called the LA-class or the 688-class, is a class of
nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) that forms the backbone of the United
States submarine fleet. Comprised of 62 submarines, this class has more boats than
any other nuclear powered submarine class in the world. The class was preceded by
the Sturgeon class and followed by the Seawolf class and Virginia classes.
Submarines of this class are usually named after U.S. cities, breaking a long-standing
Navy tradition of naming attack submarines after sea creatures.
Price: 450
USS Ohio (SSGN-726)
Scale: 1/240
USS Ohio (SSGN-726), the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered fleet ballistic
missile submarines, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the
17th state. She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-726, and with
her conversion to a conventional missile submarine she was re-designated SSGN-726.
Price: 450
Resolution class
Scale: 1/192. Length 26 1/2 inches
During the 1950s and early 1960s, Great Britain's only nuclear deterrent was through
the RAF's V-bombers. But developments in radar and surface-to-air weaponry made it
clear that bombers were becoming vulnerable. In January 1963, the Defence
Committee decided that the nation's nuclear deterrent should be carried by
submarines. In February of the same year, the government announced that it was to
order four Resolution-class submarines with nuclear power plants and be armed with
the polaris missile. The SSBNs would then take over the nuclear deterrent role from
the RAF's V-bombers from 1968 onwards.
Price: 425
I-400 class submarine
Scale: 1/192
Length: 25”
The Sen Toku I-400-class (伊四〇〇型潜水艦) submarines of the Imperial Japanese
Navy were the largest submarines of World War II, and the largest ever built prior to
the development of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. These were
submarine aircraft carriers and each of them was able to carry 3 Aichi M6A Seiran
aircraft underwater to their destinations. They also carried torpedoes for close range
combat and were designed to surface, launch the planes then dive again quickly
before they were discovered.
The I-400 was originally designed so that it could travel round-trip to anywhere in the
world, and it was specifically intended to destroy the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal.
A fleet of 18 boats was planned in 1942, and work on the first one was started in
January 1943 at the Kure, Hiroshima arsenal. Within a year the plan was scaled back
to five, and only three (I-400 at Kure, and the I-401 and I-402 at Sasebo) were
completed.
Price: 399
Typhoon class submarine
Scale: 1/124
Length: 28”
The Typhoon class submarine is a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile
submarine deployed by the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. With a maximum displacement
of 26,000 tonnes, Typhoons are the largest class of submarine ever built. The NATO
reporting name stems from the use of the word "typhoon" (тайфун) by Leonid
Brezhnev in a 1974 speech while describing a new type of nuclear ballistic missile
submarine.
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USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740)
USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740), an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, was the
third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 13th state. The contract to
build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation
in Groton, Connecticut on 5 January 1988 and her keel was laid down on 15
September 1988. She was launched on 17 July 1993 sponsored by Mrs. Kati
Machthley, and commissioned on 9 July 1994, with Captain John K. Eldridge
commanding the Blue Crew and Commander Michael Maxfield commanding the
Gold Crew.
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7)
The third US Navy vessel named after Mt. Rainier, USNS Rainier is the second ship
in the Supply class of fast combat support ships. After service in the United States
Navy from 1995 through 2003 as USS Rainier, her weapons systems were removed
and she was transferred on August 29, 2003 to the Military Sealift Command, which
designated her USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7).
Rainier has the speed to keep up with the carrier strike groups. She rapidly
replenishes Navy task forces. She receives petroleum products, ammunition and stores
from shuttle ships and redistributes these items simultaneously to carrier strike group
ships. This reduces the vulnerability of serviced ships by reducing alongside time.