1:700 Top Grade North Carolina BB-55Length overall: 222. 1m Beam: 33m Displacement Standard36600t Full Load46700t The North Carolina (BB 55) was laid down 27 October 1937 by New York Naval Shipyard; launched 13 June 1940 and commissioned at New York 9 April 1941. North Carolina completed her shakedown in the Caribbean prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, and after intensive war exercises, entered the Pacific 10 June 1942. When the U. S. attacked Guadalcanal in early August of 1942, North

This was the first and only nuclear shell to be fired from a cannon (the Little Feller 1 test shot of an M388 used a Davy Crockett Weapon System which was a recoilless smooth bore gun firing the warhead mounted on the end of a spigot inserted in the barrel of the weapon

These craft are probably the most numerous class of missile boats ever built

In 1942 in the battle of Midway

Certainly she was the most powerful warship of her day and her displacement of 41

she had two hangar deck levels

Navy Reserve Fleet

-  the hull made from two-directional slide molds

M53s were stadardized as M55s

Both guns use the same US standard 127mm ammunition

and recovery vehicles

initiated to partially replace the fleet of ageing HMMWV utility vehicles

Item No   AF35272 Item Name    IDF M109 1982 Rochev Scale   1:35 Item Type    Plastic Model Military Kit