Arleigh Burke Class Missile Destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur DDG-54 (Plastic model) - HobbySearch Military Model Store

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- The Arleigh Burke Class Missile Destroyer is a US Navy missile destroyer class.
- Although this ship is an expensive Aegis ship, it is a ship that has achieved mass construction of more than 70 ships, which is the largest number of surface combat ships built by the US Navy after World War II due to its efficient design.
- Curtis Wilbur is the fourth Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer and missile defense capable ship.
- Named after Curtis Wilbur, the 43rd Secretary of the Navy under President Calvin Coolidge.
- The ship was laid down in 1991 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and commissioned in Long Beach, California in 1994.
- Relocated from San Diego to Yokosuka, Japan in 1996 and joined the 7th Fleet.
- In 2002, she participated in Exercise Missilex 02 near the Okinawa Islands with US ships based in Yokosuka and Sasebo and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship Sagami.
- In March 2011, the Curtis Wilbur was dispatched with the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan to support Japan in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
- In 2021, after 25 years of forward-deployed duty, she departed from her home port, Yokosuka Air Base, for transfer to San Diego.

[Kit overview]
- Full hull model (with display stand)
- Number of parts: 1,300 or more (38 runners)
- Total length when completed: approx. 769mm, total width: approx. 111mm
- Photo-etched parts 7pcs, metal chain for anchor chain included
- With same scale SH-60B

* All images other than package art and line drawings are painted by assembling the kit.

Item Size/Weight : 83 x 29 x 9 cm / 1800g