USS Missouri

The third USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy battleship, notable as the final battleship to be built by the United States, the second-to-last in the world after HMS Vanguard, and the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. She was one of the Iowa-class "fast battleship" designs planned in 1938 by the Preliminary Design Branch at the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Missouri was ordered on 12 June 1940 and her keel was laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York on 6 January 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1944 and commissioned on 11 June. The ship was the fourth of the Iowa class and the final battleship commissioned by the US Navy. The ship was christened at her launching by Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S. Truman, then a senator from Missouri.

During World War II, Missouri saw action at the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, and shelled the Japanese home islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. In the 1950s, Missouri fought in the Korean War and was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets. She was recommissioned in the 1980s, and refitted with modern armaments. In 1991, she participated in the Gulf War.Missouri was decommissioned a final time on 31 March 1992, having received a total of eleven battle stars, and is presently a museum ship at Pearl Harbor.

Scale: 1:200
Length: 1355mm
Width: 165mm
Height: 240mms
Materials: Fiberglass Hull, wood deck
Weight: 7.2kg
Power: 2 x Powerful Direct Current Motor - type 540
Power Supply: 2 x 6v 10Ah batteries (not included)
Speed: 0.8M per second
Duration: 80 Minutes with Full Charge Batteries
RC System: Futaba Two Channel Digital Scale Remote Controller to include ESC
Three pivotable gun turrets
Three removable deck pieces for easy access to batteries, ESC, motors and servos. Large compartment for additional components such as sound and lighting.