AOSWL.A131 - Aoshima 1/700 Water Line Series No.131 USSR Aircraft Carrier Kiev WWHP112871

AOSWL.A131 - Aoshima 1/700 Water Line Series No.131 USSR Aircraft Carrier Kiev  WWHP112871

Preowned, Resealed, Mint Parts off sprue

Kiev (Project 1143 Krechyet) was the lead ship of the Soviet Navy's first class of fixed-wing aviation vessels, commissioned in 1975. Designated a "heavy aviation cruiser" in Soviet classification to allow passage through the Turkish Straits under the Montreux Convention, she combined an angled aft flight deck for Yak-38 VTOL aircraft with a massive forward armament of SS-N-12 anti-ship missiles, SA-N-3 and SA-N-4 surface-to-air missiles, torpedo tubes, and twin 76 mm guns — a unique hybrid with no Western equivalent. The class represented a significant expansion of Soviet naval power projection capability during the Cold War. Aoshima tooled this kit in 1979 as Waterline Series No.131, one of the earliest 1/700 scale kits of a Soviet carrier.

Box Contents:

• Large injection-moulded hull and flight deck (bagged separately)
• Plastic sprues — island superstructure, weapons systems, fittings, and detail parts
• Aircraft sprue — 12 × Yak-36 VTOL aircraft, 4 × Ka-25 helicopters (with dual rotor sets)
• Raised flight deck markings
• Waterslide decal sheet
• Japanese-language instruction sheet with painting guide