USS Curtis Wilbur DDG-54

Plastic kit for the USS Curtis Wilbur DDG-54

• Scale 1:200
• Dimensions LxW (built): 769 x 111 mm
• 1,300+ pieces
• One-piece fuselage, manufactured using the Slide Mold process
• Photo-etched parts included
• 1 SH-60B Seahawk helicopter included
• with model stand
• unbuilt/unpainted
• Paint and glue not included

USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) is named for the 34th Secretary of the Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur. She is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy and belongs to the Arleigh Burke class.

She is 154 meters long and 20 meters wide, can accommodate over 340 crew members and with the 100,000 hp (75 MW) gas turbines she can reach a speed of 31 knots (57 km/h). The armament consists of 90 VLS cells (VLS - Vertical Launching System - vertical launch facility for missiles), 1 127 mm gun and 2 triple torpedo launchers.

USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) was commissioned in March 1994, first homeport San Diego. Her first mission took her to the Persian Gulf. From 1996 she was transferred to Yokusuka/Japan, took part in exercises and missions both in the Pacific and again in the Persian Gulf and took part in searches for survivors of the South Korean ship Cheonan and after the Tohoku earthquake in Japan.

Their crossing of the Taiwan Strait sparked fierce protests from the Chinese government in 2021.