Eduard AN/ALE-41 Chaff Dispenser (648601) 1:48

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AN/ALE-41 Chaff Dispenser (648601)

1:48 Eduard Brassin

 

 

This pod is the Naval version of the AN/ALE-38, and is a High-Capacity Bulk Chaff Dispenser, originally manufactured by Marconi and latterly by BAe Systems.  It dumps chaff into the slipstream of the carrying aircraft in an attempt to confuse and distract any chasing missile that relies on radar to home in on their target.  They’re usually used in conjunction with flare dispensers to cover both spectrums likely to be used by an incoming threat.

 

 

As is now usual with Eduard's smaller resin sets, they arrive in the new shallow Brassin cardboard box, with the resin parts safely cocooned in bags, and the instructions folded around acting as padding.  Inside the box is a bag of six larger resin parts, plus ten smaller parts, a small fret of Photo-Etch (PE), and a sheet of decals containing stencils for the two pods you can make.  Once the pod is cut from its casting block, four lugs of two types are inserted into the holes in the top of the body, with a pair of brass strips alongside.  One of two resin covers fill the depression in the nose, and you have a choice of exposed chaff tubes or covered in the rear section, which fits onto a keyed lug at the back of the body.

 

The painting and decaling drawing on the front shows the location of all the stencils, plus the various colours called out in Gunze codes as is usual for Eduard.

 

Highly recommended.

 

 

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