ESCORTEURS RAPIDES E 50 COLLECTION HISTORIQUE
Item no. 81093
GTIN 3279510810936
Scale 1:400
Parts 360+360
Packaging 250 x 375 x 70 mm
At the end of the 1940s, the National Navy was considering equipping itself with frigates
more or less derived from US-DE „Canon” class destroyer escorts, fourteen of which equipped
the French Navy. The preliminary proposal showed a unit equipped with a flush-deck hull as
on the US-DE types but with some elements inspired by the British „River” type, six of which
were also used by our national Navy. The initial proposal of 1948 provided for an armament
consisting of a 105 mm canon to the rear, two quadruple mounts of 40 mm rapidly replaced
by two double mounts of 57 mm open-air Bofor canons, four 20-mm Oerlikon canons,
one or two wake grenaders with a cut-out of the front superstructures providing the possibility
of installing triple mounts of torpedo tubes later on. In the end, the adopted configuration
was for three double mounts of 57 mm/60 remote-controlled ACAD 1951 model under turrets,
two 20 mm Oerlikon, four triple mount torpedo tubes of 550 mm and a Bofors Mle 54 sextuple
rocket launcher of 375 mm. In 1949, two units, the C 1 and C 2, were ordered, followed quickly
by the C 3 and C4.
Price:39,99 €
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