Description

Hobby Boss 87217 Ka-50 Black Shark Attack Helicopter Plastic Assembly Model Kit Scale 1/72 1:72

Ka-50 “Black Shark” is a single-seat attack helicopter. Coaxial Ka-50 has two three-blade rotors of 14.5m diameter each. Weapon-carrying wings with end plates are mounted on the streamlined fuselage, which tapers to the front and rear. “Black Shark” were armed with 12 supersonic anti-tank missiles with standardized seekers against armoured, ground-based and air targets, movable rapid-firing 30-mm gun having 450-rounds of ammunition, as well as with bombs and other destruction means. Fully armoured cockpit of Ka-50 safely protects the pilot against armour-piercing 12.7 mm bullets and fragmentations of 23mm projectiles.

Camouflage scheme: Russia Air Force Ka-50, N°21 / Russia Air Force, Ka-50 N°22, “Black shark”.