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1/700 FlugDeckKreuzer AIV Stern (w/out Deck Planki
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When assembling the athwartships bracing, make sure the alignment pins on the vertical side are pointing forwards. They are needed to align bow and stern fast and easy.
The Grossflugdeckkreuzer concept (not to be confused with the flugzeugkreuzer) emerged in 1942 following the need to provide air cover for Kriegsmarine operations and their use as large surface commerce raiders, even though the latter concept died to death with Bismarck the previous and Scharnhorst the following year.
Notwithstanding, a series of hybrid designs was drawn up for a 'large aviation cruiser', the four designs (the first was a proper carrier) of the A series, even though they were in all intents and purposes aviation battleships, ranging from 40,000 to 70,000 metric tons in displacement.
Design AIV was the last of the series to be developed, aside from AIIa (a further development of AII), having the same size as the latter, 250mt long, with 16 15cm casemated guns (the same installed initially on the Graf Zeppelin class), and a single quadruple 28cm turret at the bow. Anti-aircraft armament was 16 10.5cm and 14 3.7cm twin mounts, with a 32 aircraft airgroup. Developing 280,000shp for a speed of 34kn at 70,000 tons, it would have been a massive logistical strain for the Kriegsmarine at that time.
Commerce raiding in large surface ships was proven not viable anymore already with the battle of the Falklands in WW1, and the outdated doctrine for this kind of Kriegsmarine operations really show the toll taken by the forced two-decade pause in the management of a large surface navy imposed by the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty.
The Grossflugdeckkreuzer concept (not to be confused with the flugzeugkreuzer) emerged in 1942 following the need to provide air cover for Kriegsmarine operations and their use as large surface commerce raiders, even though the latter concept died to death with Bismarck the previous and Scharnhorst the following year.
Notwithstanding, a series of hybrid designs was drawn up for a 'large aviation cruiser', the four designs (the first was a proper carrier) of the A series, even though they were in all intents and purposes aviation battleships, ranging from 40,000 to 70,000 metric tons in displacement.
Design AIV was the last of the series to be developed, aside from AIIa (a further development of AII), having the same size as the latter, 250mt long, with 16 15cm casemated guns (the same installed initially on the Graf Zeppelin class), and a single quadruple 28cm turret at the bow. Anti-aircraft armament was 16 10.5cm and 14 3.7cm twin mounts, with a 32 aircraft airgroup. Developing 280,000shp for a speed of 34kn at 70,000 tons, it would have been a massive logistical strain for the Kriegsmarine at that time.
Commerce raiding in large surface ships was proven not viable anymore already with the battle of the Falklands in WW1, and the outdated doctrine for this kind of Kriegsmarine operations really show the toll taken by the forced two-decade pause in the management of a large surface navy imposed by the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty.
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