1/72 JMSDF Torpedo Boat PT-15 - Tamiya 79003  [79003]

A PT Boat With Countless Presence

The PT-15 wound up being the fifth ship regarding the PT-11 system, that's been built inside the Japanese self-defense Forces' 3rd Defense Arrange initiated in 1967. The PT-11 proceeded in which the 1960-vintage PT-10 left down and included the newest torpedo watercraft technologies in those days. She ended up being 35m extended, 9.2m wide, had the average displacement of 100 tons, and had been certainly armed with two 53cm torpedo pipelines for each part associated with vessel also a Bofors 40mm device ahead and aft concerning the connection. The aluminum V-shaped hull offered the woman superb seaworthiness and high-speed performance. Energy originates from your ex two "Combined Diesel and Gas" (CODAG) devices which produced a complete of 11,000hp allow a premier cost of 40 knots. Construction from the motorboat were only available in 1973 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Shimonoseki shipyard and she was finished in July, 1975. After being implemented towards JMSDF Maizuru area, she finished up being employed inside Yoichi Coastal Defense Group inside Ominato District in October 1990 and patrolled the waters around Hokkaido. In 1993, the Yoichi Coastal Defense Group received missile vessels to replace its torpedo ships along with the PT-15's profession stumbled on a finish whenever she had been certainly stricken through JMSDF register in March 1995.

Based on the Model

• That's a 1/72 scale artificial construction kit variety of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Torpedo Boat PT-15.
• Length: 488mm, Width: 130mm.
• The paid down hull accurately reproduces the deep V-shape.
• The ship's different gear and weaponry are often faithfully rendered, together could expect from a kind of this size.
• The fore and aft Bofors 40mm device mounts are rotated which means weapon barrels are elevated.
• Torpedo pipelines might be assembled with or with no 53cm torpedoes.
• The most effective and right back deck areas are realistically reproduced detail by detail with a rope and sequence handrails.
• Bridge area features practical details.
• 12 team numbers are included that can also be posed through motorboat to incorporate further realism.
• Decals the text unit panels as well as other other markings so when a display stand can be included.