This kit has been upgraded using Dragon's latest technology and
high detail standards. It features a completely new lower hull
which allows it to be modelled as either a waterline or full hull
version. Add to this all of the overhauled and improved details and
parts as well as a wide array of photo-etched parts and you have a
kit that any mariner can appreciate!
Main Features
- newly tooled hull bottom
- assembly option of waterline or full hull version
- new superstructure components for variant 965E
- brand new radar mount with realistic details
- photo-etched radar components and masts
- photo-etched railings
- photo-etched helicopter rotor blades
- Cartograf decals offer markings for various Russian destroyers
of this class
About the Sovremenny Class
The first of
eighteen Russian Sovremenny Class destroyers, with a displacement
of 8480 tons, was completed in 1985. Only five of these Type 956
destroyers remain in Russian service, though the Chinese Navy
(PLAN) also has several of them.
Each destroyer is armed with a mini-arsenal of 48 air-defense
SA-N-7 Gadfly missiles, eight SS-N-22 Sunburn anti-ship missiles,
torpedoes, long-range 130mm guns, four six-barrel 30mm AK-630 guns,
mines, a Ka-27 helicopter, and a comprehensive electronic warfare
system.
