GWS30 Sea Dart & GWS25 Sea wolf Missiles and launchers (2 in 1 )

Two very well known ship-borne missile systems are the subject for the latest release from Takom, both of these systems are offered in the same boxing.

Wait - what are they - and what the difference between the Sea Wolf, Sea Dart?

Sea Wolf
A Self-defence surface-to-air missile, highly automated but short ranged. Designed to protect the Type 22 frigates against a range of threats, but especially anti-ship missiles: either big air-launched threats like the AS-4 Kitchen or short-ranged submarine-launched missiles like SS-N-7 Starbright (arming the Soviets' Charlie-class attack submarines).

Sea Dart
Sea Dart (GWS30) was a quite successful medium-range ship-borne Surface to Air Missile. It was stored in a below-decks magazine, moved by trolley to the launcher hoists, and the twin-arm launcher then aimed the weapon for its initial flight. A solid rocket booster kicked it from a standstill to Mach 3 in three seconds flat, then a ramjet motor kept it at that speed to a range of forty miles. (So, a supersonic inbound threat could be engaged at seventy miles or so, to be hit at forty). The missile used semi-active radar guidance: the Radar 909 tracker locked onto the target with its tracking radar, then lit it up with J-band radar illumination and the missile homed on that reflected energy

Inside the box will be two different kits - both the Sea Wolf  and the Sea Dart missile systems with their pedestal stands / mounts are included, both in 1/35th scale. Both of these will match the earlier Soviet missile and guns for ships that Takom seem to be forging ahead with now.

Both were happily and succesfull active in the Falkland war!