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Model Review: Swiss Jet Fighters

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Swiss jet fighters

So the Swiss developed their own combat aircraft

N.20 Aigullon

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N.20 Aigullon was to have two 20mm HS-804 cannon with sixteen 100ib or two 800ib unguided weapons or thirty-six 87mm rockets or four 30mm HS-825 cannon or in its reconnaissance roll four light bomb K24 Cameras with 500l fuel which must be a reconnaissance system.

FFA P.16

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The FFA P.16 was to have two 30mm Hispano-Suiza HS.825 Cannons with 240 rounds or two 30mm Oerlikon KCA Revolver cannons with four under wing hardpoints for 5700ibs with two retractable matra `1000 launcher with 44 68mm sneb unguided rockets.

Had the Swiss built these then odds are the Swiss would never have bought the DH-100 Vampire, DH-112 Venom and Hawker Hunters.

so in regards I really like these as the N.20s looks like a F7U Cutlass although the Rolls Royce Avon probably would have been the better option instead of the Armstrong-Siddeley Mamba Turboprop converted into a Turbofan which was ambitious not powerful enough as was the 1660ibf Sulzer D45 turbojet instead I’d have taken the Hunter F.6’s 11,000ibf Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire and put it in N.20 Aigullon instead as for the P-16 i do like it as it looks like the learjets as the elements that make up the Lear is well displayed

So this is the last of the model review series, hopefully you all enjoyed it and i’ll see you next time

Model Review: DH-110 Sea Vixen FAW.2

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DH-110 Sea Vixen FAW.2

the last fixed wing all British jet fighter armed with Red Top

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Somehow if the Sea Vixen was given blue dolphin then it would have been better as it was intended had the British been able to develop the missile that the sea vixen would have blue dolphin

Credit to Britmodeller for the awesome model which despite having missiles and rockets with fuel tanks but i really like the details of the coal where the RIO would sit and watch the radar and the way the canopy is offset from the centre is very well detailed and the fuselage is quite well designed too.

Model Review: Britain’s proposed fighters – The P.1103 & P.1121

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I was digging around weeks back and found these

P.1103: https://preview.redd.it/32fh3ji57ie61.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fce9f613ad90557fc02fdc601c72e38efb5ec8f7

The P.1103 was a proposed interceptor designed to meet the RAF’s requirement for an interceptor that could defend the UK from Soviet supersonic nuclear bombers like the Tu-22 Blinder and was designed to use the 20,000ib thrust De-Haviland Gyron Turbojet and was to be armed with the infrared guided Red Top AAMs or a smaller version of the Red Dean Active-Radar guided AAM or an improved model of the De-Havilland Firestreak known as Blue Jay but it never left the design stage.

P.1121: https://preview.redd.it/eypt7pdi7ie61.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f3a3514ec3c564875474dd3bbf9b34b30a02a0b

The 2nd is the Hawker P.1121 was a proposed supersonic fighter intended to be an interceptor plus a ground-attack platform and was intended to replace the RAF’s Hawker Hunters although unfortunately there is limited information available so I can’t provide much detail sadly but it was apparently proposed to have similar performance and capabilities to the US F-4 Phantom 2

Credit to both model makers as these are really good

Model Review: Project 11780 Class Helicopter Carrier

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The Project 11780 Kherson Helicopter Carrier

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Equal to the USA’s Tarawa class Helicopter Carrier powered by a boiler and steam turbines generating 180,000 horsepower to give this ship a speed of 30 knots while cruising at 18 knots gives a range of 8000 miles.

Her planned armament was to be 1 or 2 130mm AK-130 Naval Guns, 8 Six-cell VLS for 48 3K95 Dagger Surface to Air missiles and 2 or 4 Kashtan CWIS

Capacity is up in the air she was apparently able to use the Kamov Ka-25 like the Ka-25BSH Hormone-A Anti-Submarine Warfare Helicopters but I think these are the more likely loadout

In the Anti-Submarine Warfare role she’d have had 25 Kamov Ka-27PL Helix-A Helicopters.

If the ship was configured for Amphibious Assault then she’d have 12 Kamov Ka-29TB Helix-B Assault Transport Helicopters and 4 Ondatra Class Landing Craft which would’ve had a capacity of 250 Soviet Marines as the ship was capable of carrying 1000 Soviet Marines and 2 Tsaplya-class Landing Craft Air Cushions aka Hovercraft or 50 Tanks likely a model of the PT-76 Amphibious Light Tank.

So what are your thoughts on this proposed Soviet Helicopter Carrier and I wonder what else the Soviets had planned and what to call this thing

So i think this model is interesting as its shows how good the soviet designers as its look like a ship designed to hunt and kill Submarines or land troops

Model Review: Convair XB-46

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The Convair XB-46 a rival to the B-45 Tornado

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The XB-46 was a competitor for the first US jet bomber powered by four 4000ib Allison J35-3 turbojets with two 12.7mm M2 Browning machine guns and a munition load of 22,000ibs.

It could fly as high as 40,000 feet and fly as far as 2870 miles with a cruise of 381 knots with its top being 474 knots and had a crew.

The Model is quite good for an aircraft that never got built

Model Review: Graf Zeppelin Class Aircraft Carrier

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Something a little different today as I’m doing a ship

The German Graf Zeppelin Class Aircraft Carrier was one of the obscure WW2 Carriers

The Graf Zeppelin Class Aircraft Carrier was to have 43 Aircraft

The Graf Zeppelin’s air wing was to have BF109T-1 Fighters which would’ve had two nose mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine guns with 2000 rounds and two wing mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine guns with 1000 rounds and an external fuel tank.

The bombers would’ve been Ju-87C Stuka would’ve had two wing mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine guns with 1000 rounds and a single rear turreted 7.92mm MG-15 machine guns with 900 rounds and a single 550ib SC250JA munition.

The Torpedo Bomber was to be the Fi-167A-0 with a single nose mounted 7.92mm MG-17 machine gun with 500 rounds and a single rear turreted 7.92mm MG-15 machine guns with 600 rounds

In her Torpedo strike, the Fi-167A would carry a single LT F5B Torpedo or in her bomber role the munition was to be a single 2200ib SC1000 or 1100ib SC500 or four 110ib SC50 Munitions.

The BF109T-1 had a range of 586 miles while the Ju-87C Stuka’s range was between 370 to 490 miles and the Fi-167A-0 had a range of 810 miles.

Her gun armament was eight 2-turret 5.9-Inch SK C/28 Naval Guns and 62 Anti-Aircraft Guns which would have consisted Twelve 4.1-inch SK C/33, Eleven 2-turret 1.5-Inch SK C/30 and Seven 4-turret 0.79-inch SK C/30 Anti-Aircraft Guns.

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So the model for this unfinished Nazi aircraft carrier looks very good for German’s attempt at an Aircraft carrier even though the soviet stole it and sunk and its remains weren’t discovered until the early 21st century

Model Review: US Bomber models – YB-60 and XB-55

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As we know the Tu-95 Bear-H exists but what if I told you there was an American equal, I present the Boeing XB-55

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Video unfortunately why I do not know

If you think you’re seeing a Turboprop B-47 Stratojet well yeah the XB-55 was to take a similar B-47 Airframe with less sweep on its wings and four Allison T40-2 Turboprops with three-bladed contra rotating props producing 5600 Horsepower each and was suppose to have ten 20mm M24A1 autocannons with presumably 8000 rounds of ammo and a bomb load of 24,000ib but it was cancelled due to a number of factors

but I’d expect if it was that there probably would have been changes at some point during development and likely would’ve had eight of the ten 20mm M24A1 autocannons being deleted and the 5600 horsepower T40-2 Turboprops being replaced with four Pratt and Whitney T57-1 Turboprops which produced 15,000 horsepower but who knows

The Convair YB-60 or the B-36 Peacemaker with jet engines

The idea was sound however poor performance doomed it and it was based on old 1940s tech so it didn’t stand a chance against the B-52

YB-60: https://preview.redd.it/597aaqek1i761.jpg?width=899&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4008d29152facda5bbf064464ad28f1d95de4446

So both this models look pretty good for unbuilt bombers of which the XB-55 should have been proceeded with