Product Description
- Aoshima's water line has been renewed with more precision!!
- A 1/700 scale plastic model kit of the 8th Kagero-class destroyer [Yukikaze], a lucky ship that fought in various battles throughout the Pacific War and survived until the end of the war.
- The late war appearance, with the turret removed and anti-aircraft weapons strengthened, is simple, easy to assemble, and accurately reproduced with a parts configuration that keeps the essential points down.
- Newly designed 12.7cm twin guns, anti-aircraft guns, naval vessels, and other equipment have been added.
- Achieves dense and precise molding using a slide mold!!
- Mainly weapons such as destroyer main guns and machine guns, carrier-based aircraft and various equipment have also been updated!!
[Outfitting parts renewed with new molds]
・Type 96 25mm triple machine gun
・70cm signal search light
・Direction finder antenna
・3rd year model 12.7cm twin gun (C/D type)
・No. 13 electric probe
・No. 22 electric probe
・Type 92 quadruple torpedo tube
・Type 94 Depth Charge Thrower
・Quartrant davit
・7m cutter
·anchor
[Ship type: Destroyer]
[Country: Japan]
[Ship history]
- The destroyer Yukikaze was completed on January 20, 1940 as the 8th ship of the Kagero class.
- The construction site is Sasebo Arsenal.
- After completion, she belonged to the 2nd Torpedo Squadron, 16th Destroyer Squadron, along with Hatsukaze, Tokitsukaze, and Amatsukaze.
- In the Pacific War, she participated in the southern invasion operation at the outbreak of the war, and exchanged gunfire with the Allied fleet at the Battle of Surabaya.
- Since then, he has fought in fierce battles such as the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the South Pacific, the Third Battle of the Solomon Islands, the Ga Island evacuation operation, the Battle of the Mariana Gulf, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the Yamato surface suicide attack, but he has always miraculously survived. He showed his luck.
- Through these battles, Yukikaze's ship size changed significantly, transforming from a ship with strong weapons for ship-to-ship combat to a ship with enhanced air defense combat weapons.
- A new machine gun turret was built in front of the bridge, and one twin 25mm machine gun was installed there.
- In addition, the 25mm twin machine guns installed in the center of the hull were changed to three guns, and in 1944, the second main gun turret at the rear was removed and two 25mm triple anti-aircraft guns were installed here. It was done.
- As the battle intensified day by day and her consort ships were lost one after another each time she participated in the battle, she became the only survivor of the A-class destroyers, including not only the Kagero-class but also the similar type Yugumo-class. .
- After the end of the war, all weapons were removed and living facilities were built, and the ship became a demobilization ship and was engaged in transporting Japanese people from overseas.
- It is said that more than 10,000 demobilized soldiers were carried away by the snow and wind.
- Manga artist Shigeru Mizuki also recalls being demobilized by Yukikaze.
- On July 6, 1947, she was delivered to the Republic of China as a war reparation ship and her name was changed to Danyang.
- The Republic of China welcomed Yukikaze as the flagship of its fleet.
- It was demolished in 1970 due to the effects of typhoons and deterioration.
*The images shown are prototypes.
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )
Item Size/Weight : 29 x 11 x 3.8 cm / 134g
Product Specifications
- Item code
- 06664
- JAN code
- 4905083066645
Purchase Information
This item is limited to 3 per household.