Product Description

[Feature: Destroy enemy air defense facilities! Wild Weasel]
- The advent of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and fire-control radars in the early 1950s posed a threat many times or even tens of times greater than previous anti-aircraft fires such as machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.
- The threat became a reality in the Vietnam War, when many American military planes were shot down by the Soviet-made SAM SA-2 guideline (S-75) operated by North Vietnam.
- The U.S. Air Force, with a sense of crisis, created a strategy to silence enemy air defenses, including SAMs. That is SEAD (enemy air defense network suppression).
- The biggest point of this mission is to approach air defense facilities including missile sites at a closer distance by aircraft.
- and become the target of enemy missiles and be illuminated by enemy radar.
- It was always a back-to-back action with the danger of being shot down first.
- Becomes a decoy, pinpoints the enemy's position, and hits it.
- For this mission, a dedicated aircraft with additional functions corresponding to the normal aircraft was assigned. This is the [Wild Weasel] machine.
- Its aircraft are equipped with more advanced radars and related equipment, armament, and are constantly evolving to the present day.
- Airplane model special No. 39 focuses on this [Wild Weasel] and introduces examples of successive Wild Weasel aircraft.
- We will also explain the details of the mission, the profile of each aircraft, various weapons, etc.

[New kit selection]
- Tamiya 1/48: Lockheed P-38J Lightning

[Main examples]
- F-100F Wild Weasel I : Trumpeter 1/48
- F-105F Wild Weasel II : Monogram 1/48
- F-105G Wild Weasel III : Trumpeter 1/72
- F-4G Wild Weasel V : Zoukei-mura (SWS) 1/48
- F-16CM Viper: Tamiya 1/48 modified
- F-16DM Viper: Hasegawa 1/48 modified
- S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) : Trumpeter 1/35
- S-125 Never (SA-3 Gore): A&A Models 1/72

[Explanation]
- Wild Weasel - Its history and tactics, special aircraft and weapons
- Wild Weasel Detail Photo Collection

[serial]
- Modeling JASDF ~ I want to see, shoot, and create! ~
- TOMCAT SQUADRONS
- Watayu Douin - What are you doing? ~

- 128 pages


Item Size/Weight : 29.8 x 21 x 0.6 cm / 452g

Product Specifications

Item series

Air Model Special

Item code

341124

ISBN code

4910087341124

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