Italeri 5610 1/35 Vosper MTB 77

Price: HK$530.00

Highlights:
- photo-etched parts

- photographic reference manual

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Availability: [In Stock]
Weight: 2.41 kg

Description

World War Two
Royal Navy
MTB - Motor Torpedo Boat (72’6”)
coastal patrol and anti-submarine support
propelled by 3 engines (4,200 hp), 40 knots (70 km/h)
Type I & Type II - different combination of offensive and defensive weaponry. Usually armed with 457 mm torpedo tubes, depth charges, and 0.303” / 0.5” Vickers machine guns.
controlled by 10~13 crew.
MTB 77 was sunk by Fw190 on 8 Sep 1943 during Operation Ferdy - Landing at Vibo Marina (in the Calabria region of southern Italy) with the intention of cutting off the German units who were expected to retreat from British Eighth Army landings at the toe of Italy at Reggio Calabria.

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