Product Description
Dry Dock Shelter for NATO SSN/SSGN special forces operations in 1/192 scale. Dry Deck Shelters (DDS) could be deployed on:
Permit SSN class (5 boats)
Sturgeon SSN class (6 boats: Silversides, Archerfish, L. Mendel Rivers, Cavalla, Tunny, William H. Bates)
Los Angeles SSN class (3 boats: Dallas, La Jolla, Buffalo)
Virginia SSN class (10 boats: Virginia, Texas, Hawaii, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Missouri, California, Mississippi, Minnesota)
Seawolf SSN class (1 boat, Jimmy Carter)
Ohio SSGN class (4 boats: Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, all can support dual DDS)
Ethan Allen converted SSN class (2 boats: John Marshall and Sam Houston)
Benjamin Franklin converted SSN class (2 boats: Kamehameha and James K Polk, both can support dual DDS)
The Sturgeon class USS Cavalla was the first submarine to utilize a DDS and first deployed operationally in 1983.
Only 6 DDS were ever produced!
This is the 1/350 model scaled up to 1/192.