Destroyer Escort DE-161 USS Barber 3D model

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This model boasts an impressive level of detail, showcasing intricate components like guns, depth charges, racks and mouse traps with incredible accuracy. The flying bridge features a sturdy steel tubing frame that supports a canvas cover, speaking tube and other crucial features. This high poly model includes a wide array of textures, and its guns, propellers, rudders, davits, and mousetraps are all animateable. Each material and texture is provided as depicted in the accompanying visuals. The model is offered in multiple formats to cater to various user preferences. The Buckley Class Destroyer Escorts were a series of vessels constructed between 1943 and 1944, designed for combat service during World War II. While smaller and less maneuverable compared to fleet destroyer classes, these ships offered several advantages: they were easier to staff, less expensive to operate, quicker to launch, and more agile in the water. A staggering 150 of these vessels were built, serving in both the US Navy and the British Navy as Captain Class Frigates. Armed with three 3-inch artillery pieces, a single quad 40mm anti-aircraft gun, three torpedo tubes firing standard M14 torpedoes, and up to eight 20mm cannons, these ships were formidable on the battlefield. They also featured an impressive array of countermeasures, including M24 mousetrap launchers, two rear racks for launching roll-off depth charges, and 6-8 k-gun launchers for deploying depth charges. The latest sonar and underwater search gear made them highly effective in anti-submarine warfare. One notable mention is that the Buckley Class Destroyer escort played a starring role in the film "The Enemy Below," which was primarily filmed on board one of these ships.