Chinese WZ-10 Thunderbolt

Plastic model kit to build a Chinese WZ-10 Thunderbolt attack helicopter

• Scale 1:72
• Dimensions (built): Length 223 mm / Rotor diameter 180 mm
• 180+ pieces
• Clear and photo-etched parts included
• not built, not painted
• Paint and glue not included

The WZ-10 attack helicopter is developed after 1990, the prototype took the first flight in 2003. It is designed primarily for anti-tank missions but has secondary air-to-air capability as well. It’s the first attack helicopter of Chinese Army.

The WZ-10 have a standard structure of attack helicopter, the narrow fuselage, tandem cockpit with the WSO in front and the pilot at rear. Diamond-shaped fuselage cross-section can reduce the RCS. All of the important area are protected by armored.        

The prototype of the WZ-10 was fitted with two Pratt & Whitney PT-6C-67C turboshaft engines and then replaced by two WZ-9 engines. The helicopter may equipment with the FBW system and Helmet, head up display, optoelectronic devices and forward-looking infrared systems, radar and laser warning receivers, infrared jammers and decoy launching system.