"Submarine Aircraft Carriers" Topic
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| Tango01 | 24 Apr 2019 10:00 p.m. PST |
"In many ways HIJMS I-400 was decades ahead of her time. She was the world's largest submarine with a length of 400-ft and a surface displacement of 3,530 tons. Above her main deck rose a 115-ft. long, 12-ft diameter, hangar housing three torpedo-bombers. These float planes were rolled out through a massive hydraulic door onto an 85-ft pneumatic catapult, where they were rigged for flight, fueled, armed, launched, and after landing alongside, lifted back aboard with a powerful hydraulic crane. The I-400 was equipped with a snorkel, radar, radar detectors, and capacious fuel tanks that gave her a range of 37,500 miles: One and a half times around the world. She was armed with eight torpedo tubes, a 5.5-in 50-cal deck gun, a bridge 25mm antiaircraft gun, and three triple 25 mm A/A mounts atop her hangar. The advent of guided missiles and atomic bombs transformed her from dinosaur to an overspecialized undersea menacing strategic threat….."
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 25 Apr 2019 6:19 a.m. PST |
I built the plastic model long ago.  |
| Tango01 | 25 Apr 2019 11:43 a.m. PST |
Do you finished and paint it?… (smile)
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| chironex | 03 May 2019 4:13 a.m. PST |
Don't know about his, but mine certainly isn't ready. |
| Lion in the Stars | 07 May 2019 5:48 p.m. PST |
Bought the 1/350 scale plastic model after the announcement of the rediscovered wrecks off of Hawaii in 2013. Still haven't built it, though. The original idea they were build for was a good one (destroying the Panama Canal to force US Atlantic Fleet reinforcements to go the long way around and adding several more months travel time), but the sub-carriers needed to be done in 1941. |
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