RODEN 058 FAIRCHILD & LTV NC/AC-123K "BLACK SPOT" NIGHT INTRUDER 1/72 SCALE
DESCRIPTION:
The C-123 Provider was one of the most significant aircraft in aviation history; its design was first used in prototype form during the Second World War, and it has since become the classic layout for all transport aircraft. However, the war in Vietnam proved that transport planes can be used not only for their main purpose, but also for purposes far removed from the carriage of goods by air.
The earlier conversion of the well-known DC-3 into the AC-47 'Spooky' was one of the first attempts to turn a transport plane into a strike plane. However, it was simply a kind of flying gun truck, with an array of weapons, which could not actually track ground targets from the air to be able to effectively destroy them.
At the end of 1965 the US Air Force as part of the newly launched 'Black Spot' program ordered from the Fairchild company two experimental prototype strike aircraft. It was assumed that the machine would be able to conduct an independent search for ground targets around the clock regardless of weather conditions. The notorious Ho Chi Minh trail had long been a source of constant problems for the US Army and therefore the accuracy of night air attacks in the area was one of their biggest priorities.
Soon, in cooperation with LTV and E-Systems, two C-123 aircraft were converted to the Black Spot standard. These airplanes differed from the standard transport with an elongated nose, fashioned to enable the installation of the massive radar from the F-104 fighter. In the rest of the lengthened nose was installed infrared equipment, and Doppler radar navigation equipment. In the back part of the transport compartment was located a bomb bay, amongst other equipment as part of the Black Crow system, which initiated the moment the ignition was turned on. In case of target acquisition and tracking attack decisions were made by computer, not by the crew, an essential innovation of that time.
FEATURES:
* Brand: Roden
* Title: NC/AC-123K Black Spot
* Number: 058
* Scale: 1/72
* Type: Full kit
* Released: 2015 New parts
* Topic: Fairchild C-123 Provider » Propeller (Aircraft)
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