TomDougherty Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 Sailfish was originally built as a postwar (WWII) radar picket submarine, and commissioned in 1956. The diesel powered submarine was equipped with BPS-2 and BPS-3 radars installed in the sail and on a short pylon aft of the sail. The postwar radar picket role was short-lived and the radars removed. In 1965, Sailfish went into the Philadelphia Navy Yard for upgrades, and emerged with the 3 AN/BQG-4 PUFFS sonar "fins" on deck. These were employed to derive bearings on nearby ships and submarines by using the deck length as a baseline to discriminate the time of arrival of acoustic signals at each unit. Sailfish served until 1978, when she was decommissioned and eventually sunk as a target. The Iron Shipwright 1/350 scale kit consists of a resin hull and 3-D printed pieces (sail, masts, rudder, planes, propellers and PUFFS units). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Deliduka Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Amazing work on a subject I knew nothing about! Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmarc Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 LLLLLLLLLLLLLLooking great ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonL Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 (edited) Very cool model and Cold War history. I recently talked to a 1960s diesel sub sailor whose first cruise included a blue-water rescue mission for another sub, that was damaged when it "...escaped from a Russian river with its sonar out." Unbelievable. "Where have you been - !?" Edited January 26 by VonL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWScholten Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 Nice build, and a cool history lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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