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OSCAR Submarine Model

Russia’s enormous Oscar class nuclear attack submarines were designed during the Cold War with a specific mission in mind: kill American aircraft carriers.

Because each U.S. flattop is protected by its own fleet of escorting warships—many of them specialized in antisubmarine warfare—the Oscar submarines' primary game plan isn’t to creep up close for a torpedo attack.

Instead, the Oscar class was designed to lob enormous anti-shipping cruise missiles from hundreds of miles away. Twenty-four massive ten-meter long cruise missiles weighing eight tons each! The missiles cruise at speeds as high as Mach 2.5. They are guided to the target by a satellite system. If multiple missiles are fired in a volley, they can be networked together to relay targeting information and approach from different angles. The missiles can also be equipped with five-hundred-kiloton nuclear warheads. No wonder why NATO names it SS-N-19 Shipwrecks!

In order to carry heavy armament, an Oscar submarine is huge, more than one and a half football fields long and displaces 12,500 tons while surfaced. Nonetheless, they can attain an excellent maximum speed of thirty-seven miles per hour while submerged. Two nuclear reactors generated seventy-three megawatts of electricity for the enormous submarine. A crew complement of around one hundred occupied nine compartments that could be sealed off from one another.

An Oscar submarine does not lack shorter-range backup weapons. In addition to its four regular 533-millimeter tubes that can fire RPK-2 “Starfish” anti-submarine missiles, it has two 650-millimeter tubes that can fire extra-large SS-N-16 Stallion missiles, which can strike targets as far as sixty-three miles away.

The first two Oscar submarines, the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk, were completed in the Severodvinsk shipyards in 1980 and 1982. These were followed by eleven boats between 1982 and 1996. These newer and likely stealthier Oscar IIs were ten meters longer, featured updated electronics, and were upgraded from four- to seven-bladed propellers.

The US Navy had no equivalent until in the early 2000s, when four of the Ohio class ballistic missile submarines were converted to guided missile submarines.

Oscar class subs continued shadowing U.S. aircraft carriers during the 1990s, and one even became tangled in the nets of Spanish fishing trawler in 1999. Today, seven Oscar II–class submarines continue to serve in the Russian Navy.

This primarily wood Oscar submarine model is 31" long x 7" tall x 5" wide (1/200 scale) $2,325  Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $300 flat rate. This model is in stock and can be shipped within five business days.

For different sizes, contact us for a quote: Services@ModelShipMaster.com.

For different Russian submarines, click here: Akula, Kilo, Alfa, Typhoon.

Learn more about the Oscar class here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar-class_submarine