Product Description
After trying out several heavy-lift helicopters, including the CH-47 Chinook, the West German Heer decided on the Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion for the role. In June 1968 they ordered 110 to be built under licence by West German company VFW-Fokker. The CH-53G Mittlerer Transporthubschrauber (Medium Transport Helicopter) served with Heeresfliegerregiment 15 (15th Army Aviation Regiment), Heeresfliegerregiment 25, and Heeresfliegerregiment 35. US Marines also used CH-53 Sea Stallions alongside their CH-46 Sea Knights during the intervention in Grenada in 1983.
In Israeli Servce
In 1968, an Israeli Air Force (IAF) delegation visited Sikorsky’s plant seeking to select their next assault helicopter. They required a helicopter with good payload capacity, was highly manoeuvrable, and robust. The CH-53 Sea Stallion met these requirements. The CH-53 first saw action with 118 Squadron during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, at the Third Battle of Mount Hermon when the entire squadron (15 helicopters) transported two reserve paratrooper battalions into combat.
FIELDING CH-53 SEA STALLION HELICOPTERS
US Marines
You may replace all of a Marine Rifle Platoon’s UH-1 Huey transport helicopters with two CH-53 Sea Stallion transport helicopters.
West Germans
You may replace all of a Fallschirmjäger Zug’s UH-1 Huey transport helicopters with one CH-53 Sea Stallion transport helicopter. You may add one CH-53 Sea Stallion transport helicopter for every two (or part thereof ) Wiesel Tank teams in a Wiesel TOW Panzerabwehr Zug, or a Wiesel FK 20mm Flugabwehr Zug for +1 point per helicopter.
Israelis
You may replace all of a Paratrooper Platoon’s UH-1 Twin Huey transport helicopters with two CH-53 Sea Stallion transport helicopters. You may add one CH-53 Sea Stallion transport helicopter for every two (or part thereof ) Rabbi Jeep teams in a Rabbi Anti-tank Platoon or a Rabbi Recce Platoon for +1 point per helicopter.
THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS:
- 1x resin and metal CH-53 Sea Stallion Helicopter (with cardboard rotors)
- 2x resin optional external fuel tanks
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These miniatures are supplied unassembled and unpainted
