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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Land => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on March 27, 2014, 04:55:50 PM

Title: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 27, 2014, 04:55:50 PM: Does anyone know if there are any kits available of the BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile system?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/BGM-109G_Gryphon_-_ID_DF-ST-84-09185.JPEG)
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: deathjester on March 27, 2014, 05:53:52 PM: I haven't seen one, but maybe you could scratchbuild one for the loadbed of a HEMTT truck?

Tell you what though: I misread the title of your piece, and therefore expected to see an article about a ground launched, cruise missile version of the Bf109G... ;D
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 28, 2014, 02:18:34 AM: Quote from: deathjester on March 27, 2014, 05:53:52 PM

Tell you what though: I misread the title of your piece, and therefore expected to see an article about a ground launched, cruise missile version of the Bf109G... ;D

Hmmm....now there's an idea...
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on March 28, 2014, 02:20:54 AM: No company so far has produced a model of the vehicles used with the BGM-109 'Griffon' SSM system based on the Tomahawk cruise missile. There are a couple of scale models of the cruise missile shape in 1:144th and 1:72nd scale that I am aware of. There may have been a 1:32nd scale Tomahawk cruise missile also produced but memory is a bit fuzzy on that one.

The prime mover was a MAN truck btw.
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: raafif on March 28, 2014, 05:14:55 AM: Roskopf did something very similar in 1:87th scale at one time, may have been re-released by Roco.
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: elmayerle on April 01, 2014, 09:08:40 AM: Just a thought, GLCMs with anti-ship sensors and warheads for costal defence. They could make life "interesting" for an approaching hostile fleet, even after a severe attack on the country.
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: Volkodav on April 01, 2014, 11:21:30 AM: Would the launcher fit under the shell of a 40' shipping container? A stealth GLCM launcher
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: Diamondback on April 01, 2014, 12:13:26 PM: Quote from: Volkodav on April 01, 2014, 11:21:30 AM
Would the launcher fit under the shell of a 40' shipping container? A stealth GLCM launcher
Put such on a small container ship and you'd have a latter-day Q-ship for dealing with raiders in the South China Sea and off the Horn...
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: Volkodav on April 01, 2014, 12:54:14 PM: Quote from: Diamondback on April 01, 2014, 12:13:26 PM
Quote from: Volkodav on April 01, 2014, 11:21:30 AM
Would the launcher fit under the shell of a 40' shipping container? A stealth GLCM launcher
Put such on a small container ship and you'd have a latter-day Q-ship for dealing with raiders in the South China Sea and off the Horn...

Or dress the while thing up like a semi trailer parked in a yard some where......
Title: Re: BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
Post by: Diamondback on April 01, 2014, 01:01:53 PM: Also, I don't know if they still do, but Fiddler's Green used to have a card-model of the TEL and tractor that you might be able to use as a start-point for designing a scratchbuild from sheet-stock. (PRE_POST EDIT: They do! http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Cruise-Missile.html (http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Cruise-Missile.html) )

Heck, Conex wrapper you could have dedicated missile trains rolling around Europe disguised as regular freight... and a Container Q-ship so armed might be able to not just handle pirates but their bases too.