WIP maritime attack Shinden

[manuel]

After the sinking of the two boats delivering the nuclear bombs in July 1945 , the attack on Japan islands was postponed until march 1946. Due to the attack of the northern islands by Soviet Union and continuous raids by Navy Hellcats and Marine Corsairs, the starving increases, and finally Japan surrender in February 1946. The country was partitioned until 1980. Soviet Union occupies Hokkaidō and part of Honshu island,the remains was shared by UK, USA and Mexico .

The Type18 Shinden新田 described in this article is a maritime attack variant. His main objective it's destruction of PT boats, which plague the Inner Sea and forbidden all maritime transport. The second objective is the attack of aircraft carriers. These airplanes carry a new missile ハリケーン (hurricane) derivate from Henschel Hs 293 (Germany arms were bought by Tokyo in 1944, in the same packet they get me262, me 163). The plane itself was a derivate of the standard Shinden with a remote control and a wired pylon for the hurricane missile. The small wheels under the vertical stabilizer were suppressed

The missile has a shaped charge, propelled by two rockets, and remote controlled by radio. It has a 12 inches diameter, 7 feet long (limited by the place between main wheels and the nose wheel) 3 feet wing span.
The hits record was very low around 10%, mainly due to :
•   asymmetrical ignition,
•   in flight breaks due to the poor fabrication standards,
•   jamming of remote control,
•   loss of control by the pilot which acts also as weapon system officer.
But every time the missile hits, the target takes a lot of damage, most of the PT boats were sunk and when RN aircraft carrier "Indomitable" was hit, the armoured deck was reamed, three hellcats were destroyed in the hangar.

Ten planes were delivered from March 1944 to December 1994 to 447 koku sentai, the lone squadron equiped with this subtype. During the Shinden's ten months deployment availability of planes was around 17%. The low rate was due to shortage of spares, complexity of the weapons system, incompetence of mechanic and radio staff. Stunningly no plane was destroy in flight though uncountable air raids, perhaps a tribute to his camouflage ?

Just need to finish the plane do the missile some months of work 

P.S : sorry for my scholar English

[Rafael]

Great model, Manuel. I like the camo scheme, and the subject is one of my favorites. The backstory is very interesting.

Rafa

[Sauragnmon]

I agree, interesting colour scheme, very nice backstory.

[Maverick]

Nifty stuff Manuel,

Great backstory and the model is coming along well.  The Shinden is just too sexy in my opinion and deserves to be built over & over.

Regards,

Mav

[sotoolslinger]

Excellent work Manuel  I am really looking forward to seeing that missile

[Weaver]

Nice project Manuel! 

I like the credible back-story with the realistic problems. Sometimes it's too easy to write up "luft'46ish" things as wonder-weapons and forget that all new technology has teething troubles.

[Eddie M.]

I like your choices for the colors. Excellent story and a good looking build!

[Joe C-P]

An interesting model and story, Manuel. Those early remote-control missiles were amazingly devastating when they managed to connect.


One little known fact, which I learned from a physics professor who'd worked in the Manhattan Project: if needed, they were ready to start up an "assembly line" of nukes, with another bomb ready every two weeks. If I remember him correctly, they could have started in December 1945.