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USS Missouri BB-63

Brand EDUARD

SKU EDU-53292 EAN 8591437577019

Features

Nation: United States of America

Period: WWII

Scale: 1/350

Type: Ships

Price 43,05 €

Description

1/350 USS Missouri BB-63 (for Hobby Boss)

The Iowa class was a class of six fast battleships ordered by the U.S. Navy in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast capital ships like the Japanese Kongo class , while being able to serve in a traditional line of battle alongside slower battleships and act as its "fast wing." The Iowa class was designed to meet the "escalator clause" limit of the Second London Naval Treaty of 45,000 long tons (45,700 t) standard displacement. Four ships, Iowa ,The New Jersey , Missouri and Wisconsin were completed; two others, Illinois and Kentucky , were fixed but cancelled in 1945 and 1958 respectively before completion, and both hulls were scrapped in 1958-1959.

The four Iowa-class ships were the last battleships commissioned by the U.S. Navy. All older U.S. battleships were retired from service in 1947 and deleted from the Naval Vessel Register (NVR) in 1963. Between the mid-1940s and early 1990s, Iowa-class battleships fought in four major U.S. wars. In the Pacific theater of World War II, they served primarily as fast escorts for the Essex-class carriers of the Fast Carrier Task Force and also bombarded Japanese positions. During the Korean War , the battleships provided naval gunship support (NGFS) forUnited Nations forces and in 1968 the New Jersey bombed Viet Cong and Vietnam People's Army forces in the Vietnam War . All four were reactivated ??and modernized under the direction of the U.S. Congress in 1981 and armed with missiles in the 1980s as part of the Navy's 600-ship initiative . During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Missouri and Wisconsin fired missiles and 16-inch (406 mm) guns at Iraqi targets .

Costly to maintain, the battleships were decommissioned during the post-Cold War withdrawal in the early 1990s. All four were initially removed from the Naval Vessel Register , but the U.S. Congress forced the Navy to reinstate two on the basis that the existing NGFS would be inadequate for amphibious operations . This provoked a long debate over whether battleships should have a role in the modern Navy. Eventually, all four ships were removed from the naval ship registry and released for donations to nonprofit organizations. With the relocation of the Iowa in 2012, all four are part of nonprofit maritime museums in the United States.