Dragon Plastic Model Kits. 1/700 Scale U.S.S. Philippine Sea CG-58

 Dragon Plastic Model 1/700 Scale U.S.S. Philippine Sea CG-58.

• The USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) is a Flight II Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser.
• The name commemorates the WWII Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, in which more than 400 Japanese planes and three Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed.
• The USS Philippine Sea was launched in March 1989 and its first deployment was in the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1990 during the Gulf War.
• In fact it was the first vessel to fire missiles during this conflict with Iraq. 
• The USS Philippine Sea again saw action in October 2001 when it launched Tomahawk missiles against all Qaeda terrorist training camps in Afghanistan at the commencement of Operation Enduring Freedom.