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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
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