Sunday, May 16, 2021

Bell OH-58D Kiowa (USA)








Change of perspective with this topic on the OH-58D Kiowa helicopter. Started almost a year ago, it was only yesterday taught I finally decided to finish this kit. A single-engine, single-rotor family helicopters, the Bell OH-58 Kiowa was used by the US Army from 1969 to 2017 in the observation, utility and direct fire support roles. Coming into service from 1985, the OH-58D reconnaissance variant was an upgraded version with a new transmission and engine giving the aircraft the power needed for nap-of-the-earth flight profiles and a new four-bladed main rotor much quieter than the previous two-bladed one. Externally more distinctive, the OH-58D introduced the Mast-Mounted Sight above the rotor system which enabled operations in day/night and adverse weather conditions with limited vision and the target acquisition from relative cover.





The kit is from Revell. A simple kit but a good enough representation of this helicopter in the 1980s, at the time unarmed. (made 2020)










 

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