Hobby Master HA6619 Eurofighter Typhoon 414, Kuwait Air Force (pseudo scheme)

Hobby Master Air Power Series 1/72 Scale

HA6619 Eurofighter Typhoon 414, Kuwait Air Force (pseudo scheme)

Limited Edition of only 500 models worldwide

(RRP £115.99)

Kuwait ordered 28 Eurofighters, comprising 22 single-seat and 6 two-seat models. Delivery began in 2020 and was completed in 2023. In December 2019, Eurofighter 414 completed the first successful flight at Centreight Test Centre of the Leonardo Aircraft Division at Turin-Caselle. This was the first Instrumented Series Production aircraft equipped with the Captor E-Scan Radar with Phase Enhancement, Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod and other electronic upgrades as specified by the Kuwait contract. These aircraft will make Kuwait the 8th customer for the Eurofighter.

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine multi-role fighter built by a European consortium made up of the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy. With 4 countries involved it is necessary to have what they call Tranches (similar to contracts) that are broken down into batches and blocks. The development of the Eurofighter began in 1983 with the prototype maiden flight of the Eurofighter taking place on March 27th, 1994. The first fully equipped Tranche 2 Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA7) took to the skies on January 16th, 2008.