Tamiya 77520 - 1/700 German Battle Cruiser Gneisenau  [77520]

The Gneisenau went into commission on twenty-first might, 1938. Ranking using the Scharnhorst, she happen the biggest and a lot of effective battleship inside the German Fleet of the times. The lady displacement finished up being certainly established become 26,000 tons, actually the lady standard displacement was 31,800 tons. The key armament contained nine 28 cm weapons, of smaller in calibre than those the identical course vessels possessed by other nations. Another armament, but was at reality effective sufficient and contains twelve 15 cm weapons, fourteen 10 cm AA weapons, sixteen 37 mm AA device weapons, ten 20 mm AA unit firearms and six 53 cm torpedo pipelines. She was protected with strong armour and, no matter what the girl big displacement, had mortgage loan of 32 knots. These kind of factors combined to really make the Gneisenau one of several first-rank high-speed battlecruisers around the world.