Friday, October 22, 2021

1/144 PLAN Type 092 Xia Class SSBN (#05910) - Trumpeter

 1/144 PLAN Type 092 Xia Class SSBN (#05910) - Trumpeter

This was announced back in the 2017-2018 catalogue, the Trumpeter site says this was released in 2021-04, but its only shown up on Hannants this week (October 2022)

The 6,500-ton Type 092 Daqingyu (US Department of Defense designation Xia-class, Chinese designation 09-II) submarine was the first ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine class (SSBN) deployed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, and the first SSBN designed and built in Asia. She was designed by Huang Xuhua, and derived from the Han-Class SSNs, with an extended hull to accommodate four missile tubes.

The first Changzheng 6 (# 406) of its class was laid down in 1978 at Huludao 120 miles North-East of Beijing; she was completed in 1981. She then spent 6 years being fitted out and conducting tests with its 12 JL-1 (CSS-N-3) missiles, becoming active in 1987. Later, the submarine went through numerous upgrades in incremental step, including using Type H/SQ2-262B sonar manufactured by No. 613 Factory replacing the original Type 604 sonar on board.

Item No 05910

Item Name PLAN Type 092 Xia Class SSBN
Bar Code 9580208059105
Scale 1:144
Item Type Plastic Model Warship Kit
Model Brief Length: 833mm beam: 89mm
Total Parts 40+
Metal Parts n/a
Photo Etched Parts 1 piece
Film Parts n/a
Resin Parts n/a
Total Sprues 2 sprues , upper hull , lower hull and stand
Released Date 2021-04 (this was announced in 2017-2018 catalogue)
More Features the kit consists of over 40 parts - contains display stand

Release (UK): October 2021

Price (UK): £69.99











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