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Item Name: .Yakovlev Yak-38M Forger VTOL Strike Fighter Aircraft
Kits .Trumpeter
Scale: .1:48
Builder:.Wing
Item Status:.Built To Order / Pre-Order

Detail features:

Award winner built Yak-38, very high level of detailing throughout the whole model with accurate cockpit details and conform perfectly panel lines, nicely detailed landing gear and wheel bay, flaps, ailerons, and rudder also with details, full weapons display and more.

* Top-quality with a very high level of detail and accuracy.
* Finely scribed details on all of the visible surfaces including panels finish.
* Detailed beautifully cockpit tubs with clear canopy to show details.
* Nice looking ejection seat with details.
* The instrument panel with instrument faces details.
* Control surfaces with many details.
* Engine intake trunking with detail as well.
* Engine nozzle with great detail with the optional position.
* Nose-wheel bay with great detail in a busy looking.
* Intricately detailed main wheel wells with pipes and cable detail.
* Tire with great finishing on both sides with hub details.
* Pitot antenna, sensors and more exterior details,
* Full pylons and weapons loaded with rockets and more.

Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Wash to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, rivets, and more. Brushing to emphasize and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Filter out the contrast and blend color effects with airflow marks. Real-life nozzle burned multicolor representing. Great detail paint job on grease with staining appearing and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long term collection

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The Yakovlev Yak-38 (Russian: Як-38, NATO reporting name: Forger) was Soviet Naval Aviation`s first and only operational VTOL multi-role combat aircraft.

The first drawings showed a supersonic aircraft strongly influenced by Hawker P.1154 in study in the United Kingdom but with two R27-300 engines. Supersonic performances would have implied many difficulties of development, and it was decided to initially develop a relatively simple aircraft limited to Mach 0.95. Although the Yak-38 and Yak-38M were developed from the land-based Yakovlev Yak-36, the aircraft had almost nothing in common.

The Prototype VM-01 was finished on April 14, 1970. Though outwardly similar to the British Harrier Jump Jet, it followed a completely different configuration. Apart from having a vectorable engine in the rear used for flight, two smaller, less powerful engines were housed in the front portion of the aircraft and used purely for take-off and landing. (The Harrier uses only one engine, vectoring its thrust through four nozzles.) The aircraft used a similar layout to the German experimental VTOL strike fighter, the VFW VAK 191B, which began development in 1961, and the contemporary Dassault Mirage IIIV.
A diagram showing the lift forces on a Yak-38 in VTOL mode

The Yak 36 was sent for tests in May and June 1970. Mikhail Deksbakh carried out the first flight of the VM-02 in conventional mode on January 15, 1971. The VM-03 made its first flight in short takeoff mode on May 25, 1971. Sea trials aboard the aircraft carrier ("aviation cruiser") Kiev were observed in 1975. 231 Yak-38 aircraft were produced, including 38 two-seat trainers (Yak-38U). These were based on the four Kiev class aircraft carriers.

The Yak-38 used a hands-free landing system. The aircraft could negotiate a telemetry/telecommand link with a computer system in the aircraft carrier which would allow it to be guided onto the deck with no interaction from the pilot.