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Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 07:39 PM UTC
Bronco Models has announced an unusual and unexpected releases in the form of China’s first ballistic missile the Dong Feng-1. This offering from Bronco Models is a little unusual in that it is 1/72nd scale, but with that said let’s take a closer look.
Dong Feng-1 (DF-1), or Project 1059
China’s first ballistic missile system, a licensed copy of the Soviet R-2 (SS-2 ‘Sibling’) short-range ballistic missile, which itself was derived from the German V-2 but with doubled range. The missile was 17.7 m in length and 1.65 m in diameter, with four trapezoidal-shape stabilizing fins attached to the bottom. The missile had a launch weight of 20.5 t, and a take-off thrust of 37 t. The maximum flight range was 590 km. The missile was transported on a truck-towed trailer, which also served as the launcher platform.

The missile was designed to carry a single high-explosive (HE) warhead, though no combat warhead had ever been developed. The DF-1 used an inertial guidance coupled with remote radio mid-course lateral correction. The later required a large antenna array to be deployed on either side of the launcher, making the launch unit easily detectable in the battlefield.

Under the new missile designation system introduced in 1961, the “1059” missile was officially designated DF-1 (Dong Feng-1). The missile entered small batch production for training and test purposes in the early 1960s and was test fired again in 1963, but it never entered operational service. The DF-1 production was stopped in 1966 after the success of the indigenous DF-2A.
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Wow, never saw this one coming...an improved reverse-engineered V-2 produced by the Chinese. Scratching my head trying to see a dio here.
SEP 20, 2019 - 09:16 AM
Looks like it's based on the one on display at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, including sitting on that launch pad. I wonder if it will be on sale in the museum shop (guessing there is such a thing). Couldn't find any photos of it with any associated vehicles, as I was wondering if there might be anything else released to go with it... Maybe not.
SEP 20, 2019 - 10:06 PM
Probably not as it is a rather specialized subject matter; on the other hand perhaps for patriotic reasons ( and the gift shop sales) it'll do well and spawn the necessary (and largely unknown) associated vehicles. Heck, you've got a potential patriotic crowd that numbers into the hundred of millions!
SEP 22, 2019 - 02:23 AM
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