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Dark class torpedo boat

Main data:

Scale 1/43, overall length 507 mm, equal to 20 inches.

Cabin doors and hatchcovers:

Your eyesight can reach every corner of the superstructure

through two cabin doors and four hatchcovers,

as if you¡¯re personally on the scene.

Outdoor navigation space:

If you stepped onto the wooden inner deck through the back door of the

navigation space, you would see everything needed is ready,

including exquisite panel, helm as well as the engine telegraph.

24-carat gold goldplated propellers:

Two three-blade propellers, two four-blade propellers

on the rear end of each torpedo, blades polished.

Flag:

Unfadable silk British national flag flaunting with the wind.

Crew dummies:

Six lifelike dummies, including the Captain and bluejackets.

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Dark class torpedo boat

High-speed performance:

As is known by people who have the experience of driving a yacht,

the farther the distance between the stern and the wake,

the higher the speed is.

What speed do you think is the model running at?

It takes her 15.93 seconds to finish 50 meters,

which is not yet the maximum.

The record is 9.1 seconds, equal to a scale speed of 70 knots!

Video Clip No.1 (5.39M)

 

Capacity of continuous sailing:

With 3000 mAh rechargeable battery package,

she get a maximum scale speed of 40 knots, equal to 3.14 m per second,

and can run continuously at this speed for about 60 minutes. She has been proved to be a sailing master.

 

Stability:

Advanced technical support ensures the Dark class¡¯safe and stable running.

Even she is galloping on the water surface,

you don¡¯t have to worry about her getting list or overturn.

Video Clip No.2 (2.9M)

The video shows with on-the-spot record the agile turn performance of the

model. She is making high-speed small radius gyrations. It takes

approximately 1.5 second for her to make a 360 degrees full-speed gyration,

the radius of which is 1.6 m, only 3 times as long as the overall length of the model.

Her outstanding agility helps her survive

from all kinds of emergencies whenever necessary.

Her high-speed stability in waves and agility

as well as excellent speeding performance makes a dizzy scene.

High-speed agility:

It takes her just one second to reach full speed from stillness or revert to stillness from full speed.

 

Seakeeping capacity:

In waves as high as 3 m in scale (actual height 69.8 mm) she can still keep high-speed sailing.

You can see her cutting her way out with sharp bow through billows and the

water slipping over the smooth clipper-built hull,

white spoondrift splashing, and her sailing safely in the surfy water.

Listen carefully, you will hear poops while she is flapping the water

jumping from one peak to another of the waves.

Video Clip No.3 (974K)

Easy controllability and agility:

If you¡¯re a sophisticated controller, the model will promptly respond to

your orders, following your willing.

Video Clip No.4 (2.28M)

 

R/C rotary MG:

The two MGs can make 120 degrees free horizontal rotation,

the pitching angle can be adjusted freely

and the angle of the attached gunsight will change accordingly,

which reproduces an omnidirectional aim and shot.

Night navigation lights:

As you wish, we can make signal lamp, navigation light.

We can also add an indoor lamp in the navigation space

to beacon the bluejackets and equipment on the controlling desk.

Rotary Radar:

As a careful operator, you¡¯ll find a surprise, she has a rotary radar.

 

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Dark class torpedo boat

 

Main data:

Overall length 21.8 m, beam 5.9 m, draft 1.8 m, placement 70 t,

maximum speed 40 knots.

 

Features:

Her distinctive adjustable transom flap can accommodate

the angle of trim to conditions of the sea for better sailing status

so as to gain higher speed.

The high-speed performance and seaworthiness

outstand the Dark Class from kin torpedo boats of the world,

and her agility is also remarkable,

as you¡¯ll agree with me after seeing the video.

 

Armament:

As a multipurpose boat, there are three optional configurations for her.

The first one is to act as a torpedo attack boat,

armed with four torpedo launching tubes, one 20 mm Oerlikon double AA MG,

six stand-by caissons and two depth charges.

The second one is to act as a high-speed gunboat,

armed with one 4.5-in. 8cwt QF Mark I gun, one 40 mm MG,

six stand-by caissons and two depth charges.

 

The third one is to act as torpedo gunboat,

armed with two torpedo launching tubes, one 4.5-in.

8cwt QF Mark I gun, one 40 mm MG,

four stand-by caissons whose covers can be pulled open

and the ammo in them are piled up trimly, as well as two depth charges.

The model boat you see in the following photo

is configured in the third way.

If you are apt to choose the other two, we¡¯ll fabricate them accordingly.

 

Dark clas s in the history:

She is the precursor of famous Brave class mosquito craft.

Based on her successful design the Brave class is developed.

So the Dark class is technical pioneer of mosquito craft family.

 

From Oct. 1954 to Sep. 1955 as many as six Dark class torpedo boats were

constructed for the British Navy, namely

P1101 Dark Adventurer, P1102 Dark Aggressor,

P1103 Dark Antagonist, P1104 Dark Biter,

P1105 Dark Avenger, P1108 Dark Buccaneer.

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