Kinetic Aircraft 1/48 Royal Navy Harrier FRS1 Kit ACCEPTING BACK ORDERS

The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical-landing/vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, a development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. It first entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980 as the Sea Harrier FRS.1 and became informally known as the “Shar”.

Unusual in an era in which most naval and land-based air superiority fighters were large and supersonic, the principal role of the subsonic Sea Harrier was to provide air defense of the fleet from Royal Navy aircraft carriers.

The Sea Harrier served in the Falklands War, both of the Gulf Wars, and the Balkans conflicts; on all occasions it mainly operated from aircraft carriers positioned within the conflict zone. Its usage in the Falklands War was its most high profile and important success, where it was the only fixed-wing fighter available to protect the British Task Force. The Sea Harriers shot down 20 enemy aircraft during the conflict with one lost to enemy ground fire. They were also used to launch ground attacks in the same manner as the Harriers operated by the Royal Air Force.

• One-piece slide molding nozzle
• Air-to-air missiles: AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9 Sidewinder
• Anti-ship missiles: Sea Eagle. Mk 17
• 1000lbs bomb BL755 CBU 

Markings:

• Sea Harrier FRS.1s of 800 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Yeovilton and deployed on HMS Hermes, 1981 to March 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1s of 801 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Yeovilton and deployed on HMS Invincible, 1981 to March 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1s of 899 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Yeovilton, 1981 to March 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1s of HMS Hermes’ Air Group, “Operation Corporate” – The Falklands/Malvinas War, Apr-Jun 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1s of HMS Invincible’s Air Group, “Operation Corporate” – The Falklands/Malvinas War, Apr-Jun 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 809 NAS on establishment / en route to the South Atlantic for “Operation Corporate”, late Apr/mid May 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1 of ex-809 NAS as part of HMS Hermes’ Air Group, “Operation Corporate”, late May/mid Jun 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1 of ex-809 NAS as part of HMS Invincible’s Air Group, “Operation Corporate”, late May/mid Jun 1982.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 800 Naval Air Squadron, “Exercise Arctic Express”, HMS Hermes, 1983.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, 1983.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 899 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton, 1988.

• Sea Harrier FRS.1 of 809 NAS deployed to the South Atlantic with 809 NAS on board HMS Illustrious, 1982

• Sea Harrier FRS.51s of 300 Indian Naval Air Squadron, 1983

• Sea Harrier FRS.51s of 300 Indian Naval Air Squadron, 2005