Ace Model has just announced the release of their latest upgrade to their beautiful Braille BTR series of late. The 2S14 Zhalo-S “Sting” is a BTR 70 with a Big Gun (85mm) on it. This is sure to be a cool new release for all your fans of the tiny Russian variety. Check it out!

Ace Model has just announced that the 2S14 Zhalo-S “Sting” (NATO) is now in production in 1/72 full styrene plastic for all you fans of the tiny Russian stuff. Our friends at Ace Models sent us this press release:

“The 2S14 was a BTR-70 variant that was intended to be a hit-and-run anti-tank asset for the wheeled portion of Motorized Rifle Divisions, the Naval Infantry, and for the Airborne forces.

The mobile system, built on the BTR-70 APC, incorporated a new lightly armored turret, had a pepper-pot muzzle break that was found to be 80% effective (meaning less stress on the turret/hull when fired), and retained the speediness of the original wheeled chassis. It was eventually designated the 2S14 Zhalo-C (Sting-S). The 2S14 was found to be good EXCEPT that the 85mm gun could NOT penetrate the frontal armor of then current tanks, hostile or domestic. In the same time frame (1968-1973), both improved AT-3 missiles and the AT-4 missile system came into production and relegated the 2S14 Zhalo-C ultimately to obscurity.”

For those of you that are into this size and flavor of thing this is gonna be really cool. Check out the pictures that our friends at Ace Models provided to whet your appetite, there are some nice details there. There does not appear to be any PE included with this set, but if some is found with one, we will be sure to give you all a heads up on that as well as some sweet pictures too.

Be sure to check out the Ace Models homepage for lots more cool photos of both prototype images of the kit and the real life vehicles too, here:

http://www.acemodel.com.ua/en/

Big thanks to our friends at Ace Models for the heads up on this great new release!