1/700 German Battle Cruiser Gneisenau - Tamiya 77520  [77520]

The Gneisenau went into payment on twenty-first might, 1938. Ranking using the Scharnhorst, she happen the greatest and plenty of effective battleship inside the German Fleet regarding the times. The lady displacement finished up being certainly established become 26,000 tons, actually the girl standard displacement ended up being 31,800 tons. The main element armament included nine 28 cm weapons, of smaller in calibre compared to those the identical course vessels possessed by other nations. Another armament, but was at truth effective adequate and contains twelve 15 cm weapons, fourteen 10 cm AA tools, sixteen 37 mm AA device weapons, ten 20 mm AA unit firearms and six 53 cm torpedo pipelines. She ended up being protected with strong armour and, no matter what the girl big displacement, had mortgage loan of 32 knots. These types of factors combined to really make the Gneisenau one of several first-rank high-speed battlecruisers around the world.