1/40 KSN Midori Great Britain Hornet Anti-Tank Missile Armored Car - FV1620 Humber Hornet With Malkara Missiles
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
Rare, larger-scale (1/40) kit from the 1970s and well detailed for that time. Motorized with a wind-up clock motor and winding key, both of which are included. Features rear wheel drive, real rubber wheels and even spring-loaded launching missiles. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The Hornet was developed in the 1950s to provide British and Australian airborne units with an air-dropped long-range anti-tank capability. Based on the British Army's FV1611 Humber "Pig" one-ton four-wheel drive armoured truck, it carried two Malkara, missiles on a retractable boom at the rear, as well as two reloads. It could be transported by air in a Blackburn Beverley and air-dropped on a cluster of 6 special parachutes. The gunner fired the missiles from inside the cab and controlled them by means of a joystick attached to a wire which unreeled from the rear of the missile and connected to the sights. Electronic signals controlling the missile's flight were transmitted through the wire. With a 27 kg warhead, the Malkara missiles carried the largest warhead ever fitted to an anti-tank weapon and could destroy any tank in service at the time. The Hornet remained in service with British units until being replaced in the 1970s by the Ferret armoured car Mk 5 equipped with Swingfire missiles. It was also operated by a squadron of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment.
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