Destroyer Escort DE-578 USS Robert I Paine 3D model

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This highly detailed model features extensive animations. Every component, from the depth charges and racks to the guns and mouse traps, has been painstakingly recreated in high definition. The flying bridge showcases intricate details such as the steel tubing frame supporting the canvas cover, speaking tube, and other key features. This high-poly model boasts a vast array of textures, elevating it to an exceptional level of realism. Users can bring the guns, propellers, rudders, davits, and mouse traps to life through intricate animations. Materials and textures are provided in exhaustive detail, exactly as seen here. The model is readily available in multiple formats. Buckley Class Destroyer Escorts were a specific class of ships hastily built between 1943 and 1944 for rapid deployment during World War II. Compared to their fleet destroyer counterparts, these vessels boasted smaller size, reduced speed, and decreased range, but excelled at ease of operation, affordability, quicker crew deployment, and enhanced maneuverability. A remarkable number - more than 150 units - of Buckley-class Destroyer Escorts served the US Navy or saw duty within the British Navy as Captain Class Frigates. Armed with three 3-inch artillery pieces, a single quad 40 mm anti-aircraft gun, three standard M14 torpedo launch tubes, and up to eight 20 mm cannons, these vessels played crucial roles on the battlefield. Each Buckley-class Destroyer Escort was further equipped with a trio of aft-mounted racks for deploying roll-off depth charges and six-to-eight K-Gun launchers, as well as cutting-edge sonar systems for tracking enemy submarines during intense anti-submarine warfare operations. The movie "The Enemy Below" prominently features the Buckley Class Destroyer escort. An immense majority of the film was shot onboard a vessel of this very class.