Product Description
High detailed and accuratre 1/6 scale of Soviet 7.62 mm ShKAS Aviation Machine-gun.
ShKAS an aviation rapid-fire machine gun of system Shpitalskiy-Komaritskiy 7.62-mm
The first sample of the Soviet rapid-fire aviation machine gun has been made in 1930. Machine gun has accepted the order about its acceptance on arms under the name «An aviation rapid-fire machine gun of system Shpitalskiy-Komaritskiy» on October, 11, 1932. Action of automatics of a machine gun occured due to energy of the powder gases removed from a bore. High rate of shooting of machine gun ShKAS has been received due to a short course of mobile parts of automatics and overlapping of some operations on a reload. Rate of shooting ShKAS has achieved 1800 shots/minutes that was a record the then.
Turret variant was established on the Il-4, Pe-8, TB-4, TB-3, Er-2, DB-3 aircrafts and others.
Wing variant was established on I-16 fighters and Il-2 attack aircraft, and synchronous - on I-16, I-153, LaGG-3, Yak-1, Yak-7 fighters etc.
Users:
Soviet Union
Spain Second Spanish Republic
Republic of China
Real scaled from original
Hollowed to saved material
Model unpainted
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