Dragon has added yet another surprising sensation to its range of 1/35 scale modern vehicle plastic kits. The beneficiary this time is an M727 Tracked Guided Missile Carrier.

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I might get excited about this but I want to read the reviews first
About the name: I strongly suspect that the name Hawk was invented first and then it was "explained" as Homing All the Way Killer.
/ Robin

Ok, I like this one.

Oh Lord another gotta have , now a tracked rapier shouldn't be that far out of the realm of possibilities

previously announced by Hobby FAN .... Usually in resin,... ONLY BELIEVE... for plastic

EDIT: I meant the Tracked Rapier was recently announced by HF.

SFAIK, the Tracked Rapier hasn't seen combat use, but is still current British Kit, sooo omly believe :-)

Dragon are getting more and more ridiculous... They show their very poorly detailed road wheels and awful hull with molded-on suspension and put "full detail" and "crisp detail" captions to it...

Gents,
Any difference between the US and the IDF version may I ask?
Thanks in advance,
Bill

I assume this is the AFV Club kit?

Doubt it considering the bad blood between those two. Interesting kit choice. Can a Leopard 2 in 1/35 be that far off now?

AFV Club's is the towed version.

Absolutely not. Not a single common part.

There seemed to be two versions of vehicle+launcher configuration. The one represented in Dragon kit actually carried the towed trailer with wheels and support legs removed. So theoretically one should be able to throw away the Dragon launcher parts and replace them with AFV Club modified trailer/launcher. I'm not sure how this version fired, as it is not possible to lower the blast shield with the trailer on a vehicle...




Actually in above photos the vehicle does not have the blast shield at all... Could such vehicle fire the missiles at all in any other direction than forward? Maybe it is just a museum concoction, not a real thing?...

The other variant had a completely different launcher configuration with distinctive large support (?) "wheels" added at the rear of the vehicle. For launch the launcher module was moved to the rear (what allowed for lowering the blast shield) and support wheels were lowered to the ground.







I start to think that Dragon kit is a not-existing-in-reality mix of features of both variants...

Additional images

The "box" is moved to the rear, overhanging the rear end of the load bed and allowing the shield to be raised into operating position.


Transport configuration. The "box" is moved forward and tilted (to ride up over the stowed blast shield??)


Israeli M727 in firing position:

https://www.pinterest.dk/pin/357262182932259374/


I'll wait and hope that AFV-Club release a kit (they have the launcher and most of the carrier already ....)

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7NzdZLVuD4
Shows the rear end without the "wheels" or was it reels for some type of cable?
There are two "horns" on the tailgate which look like they were intended to rest on the ground and take some weight.
Could this be the vehicle that Dragon has modelled?
/ Robin

Edit:
The other variant?

Yes, that seems to be the base for Dragon kit (although they added blast shields, not present on that real vehicle), but I think it is either a museum concoction or some other Israeli "home made" thing. Note that there is no mechanism whatsoever to move the trailer body - it is just dumped on the bed of the vehicle... I don't see how this could be used operationally.

Some prototype most likely.