Shipbucket

Nice!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

Bravo A fine thread with excellent drawings

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Thanks.

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All posted Cannons have been updated (adjusted the size of the amidship 20mm tubs, Osterhaus loses its captain's pulpit sponson, as it lacked one as per photo evidence)...

The USS McConnell as refitted early in 1945:



The JDS Asahi, ex-USS Amick (DE-168), one of the two Cannons acquired by Japan in the mid-1950s as part of rebuilding
its navy, the Maritime Self-Defense Forces. They were retired in the mid-1970s and turned over back to the US.



In 1976 the Philippine Navy acquired the ex-USSs Amick and Atherton (DE-169), following the vessels' return to the US after their stint with the JMSDF. Respectively designated as RPS Datu Sikatuna (PS-77) and Rajah Humabon (PS-78), they were refurbished in South Korea, using 2 retired ROKN Cannons cannibalized for spares. The two ships would be commissioned into the PN in 1980, redesignated respectively as PF-5 and PF-6. Sikatuna served until 1989, while the Humabon soldiered on till 1993.



PF-5 is the least-known and least-documented of the 3 PN Cannons, so she might not really have the most accurate representation here...

In 1995 the PN decided to refurbish and reinstate the Rajah Humabon back into service (with its flying bridge enclosed and losing her ASW gear and its original combat electronics), and was recommissioned in the following year, under the new hull number PF-11. She would become the PN's flagship and its sole remaining major combatant for many years, until the advent of ex-USCG Hamilton-class WHECS in 2011 and 2013, and still soldiers on to this day as of time of posting.

The Rajah Humabon as of 2009:



...and in 2010 onwards:



Datu Kalantiaw will follow at a later posting.

cheers -- wb21

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Excellent work, particularly on the export users.

Great work!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

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Will the Greek Aetos class be done?

Excellent work.
Its amazing the Rajah Humabon is still going strong, they certainly never skimped quality for speed of construction in those days!

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