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Finally finished this nice little Hasegawa kit, been sitting on my shelf for ages now with only a few steps left to go.
>As you may know, the Luftwaffe, fed up with the aging F-104 and its poor safety record, finally decided to retire it.
>Its replacement, starting from 1987, was the relatively unconventional F-29, newly developed by Grummann as a technology demonstrator, but readily adopted by West Germany, perhaps with the help of a few properly greased palms.
>In service, the F-29 proved a reliable and agile infighter, marred by its lack of an onboard cannon (solved in 1993 with the F-29c iteration) and by its lack of an onboard radar.