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15 of 17 humans found the following review helpful.
warship
By el capitan
Bought this as a gift to a family of three boys. The toy performs better than expected, moves speedily and with assurance through the waters of a huge community pool. The problem was that the boys ages 2,5 and 8 took the controller into the pool and shorted out the box. I had given this as a gift hence I did not have the instruction booklet and didn’t recognise what to do when it got dipped in the pool. Also, sure elements (plastic) were clipped onto the frame, they necessitated to be cemented, they popped off for the duration of the trial run. Overall, was satisfied, the price was right, just need to find another control unit
3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
Great RC boat
By T
My 8 year old just loves this destroyer. Very seaworthy on our little pond. Easy to navigate after a couple of tries. Great detail on the boat.
3 of 4 humans found the following review helpful.
I hope this helps…It genuinely is a neat RC toy
By GROG
I purchased one of these from another marketer back in 2007 or so. I was astonished by the level of detail; it is more like a scale model than a toy in appearance. Some of the finer details break off without apparent effort but this does not affect the function of the boat. It looks very much like a Russian Sovremenny Class DDG in 1/200 scale. After having it for a while I disassembled it and painted more to scale, it looks great as is but with a nice scale model like paint occupation it is even better.
The boat runs real well forward, reverse, left and right. There is no “throttle” just go or no go. The boat runs well in a little lake and does not get too trouble if the water is not glass smooth. There is no steering trim adjustment so it may not run in a real straight line.
It has a neat safety feature: the motors will not run unless the boat is in the water or a lot of other form of conductor touching both propeller shafts. I found this out when bench testing the boat before I used it in water. The selective information on the box (which is the only “manual” you get) is not real clear regarding this feature.
Update: 7/1/10 After a reasonable amount of use my firstborn one of these sat for a year or so. The next time I went to use it the motors had seized up due to water intrusion and rust. I had already purchased more of these and placed one in service. This newer one has a great deal of minor changes that include less top side penetrations (like no off/on switch like my introductory one did) and water drain holes to support in drying out the internals. In addition to that, I disassembled the ship to paint it and for the duration of reassembly I sealed the deck to hull seam with RTV.
A couple things to bear in mind that it is VERY IMPORTANT to get any water that seeps in the ship out when done for the day or the motors will rust up very quickly and you will have a one use RC toy that is now a static model. For introductory use an adult and/or an individual intimate with RC will have to help with the firstborn set up. Also you have just expended around $50 for a toy with the size and detail that you find on RC ships costing ten times the price, so something had to give somewhere. On the ones I have purchased all the operation and maintenance selective information you get is on the outside of the box and is poorly translated, so read it carefully. If you find you self not understanding what is on the box I commend you pack it up and send it back.
Over the past four years I have purchased assorted RC boats/ships in respective price ranges. For around $50 this is one of the better ones, but that may not be saying much. This one is fine for what it is. To get a real decent ready to run RC boat/ship you are looking a spending around $200.00 to $500.00 or more.
For something littler and for less the “HT” torpedo boat is another HT boat that I found to be rather good for the money.
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