GIANT RC SHINANO IJN JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER – READY TO RUN ( RTR ) – 53 INCHES IN LENGTH
This 53 inch length ship is a museum quality ship representing the Imperial Japanese Navy of WWII in 1:200 Scale.
The Shinano comes with beautifully detailed Japanese aircraft as shown in the photos.
Extremely detailed in every way, this ship will satisfy the most discriminating modelers. The ship is ready to run with all RC installed. Battery and charger are not included.
The ship is incredibly steady on the water and will take wind and wave with ease.
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Model is shipped in a heavy wooden box.
Model is custom built and will take approximately 90 to 120 days to build.
Shinano (信濃), was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time. Laid down in May 1940 as the third of the Yamato-class battleships, Shinano's partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to a carrier following Japan's disastrous loss of four fleet carriers at the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. Her conversion was still not finished in November 1944 when she was ordered to sail from the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to Kure Naval Base to complete fitting out and transfer a load of 50 Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka rocket-propelled kamikaze flying bombs. Hastily dispatched, she had an inexperienced crew and serious design and construction flaws, lacked adequate pumps and fire-control systems, and did not even carry a single carrier aircraft. She was sunk en route, 10 days after commissioning, on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the U.S. Navy submarine Archerfish. Over a thousand sailors and civilians were rescued and 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
