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Posted by Ralph Wood on September 24, 2026, 17:41:36, in reply to "Flight 2 and 3 Burkes Arrived Today"
Burke propellers and US Navy submarine propellers are different animals.
Burke propellers:
https://nara.getarchive.net/media/stern-view-looking-up-at-the-rudders-and-propellers-of-the-arleigh-burke-class-422bb4
https://nara.getarchive.net/media/low-angle-stern-on-view-of-the-us-navy-usn-arleigh-burke-class-flight-iia-guided-1053fa
US Navy submarine propellers are classified, and covered up when exposed in drydock, and the like. However, the former French SSBN Le Redoubtable is a museum vessel now, and her props are visible. This is a puzzle made from a popular online image of her prop:
https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/featured/nuclear-submarine-propeller-weston-westmoreland.html?product=puzzle
US sub propellers will be "substantially similar."
Note the differences. You go to a lot of effort to find the best bits and pieces for your models, then just randomly stick on improper props. It's your model, but this seems to defeat your efforts.
FWIW 
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Purchased off the evil site. Shown in orange resin but came in the soft black resin. They removed 99% of the attachment points to the hulls prior to shipping. Some scarring on the hulls.
Ehh! Not worth it. Missing way too much detail both in accessories, domes, etc. etc.
Hulls are exactly the same between Flight 2 and 3. Differences are deck detail. It appears the designer of the flight 2 offered the railings printed on but they did not make it and will have to be scraped off. No helo including. For accessories you get two CIWS (with attachment point to barrel). 2 MK38 Mod 2 deck guns, 4 SPG radars, 2 triple torpedo mounts, 2 RHIBS and cranes and finally 2 MK45 Mod 4 5”62 guns. That is it for the small pieces. They do have some nice propellers which I will see if any fit my OKB USN subs. (Photo-etch propellers with OKB subs)
Dome sizes and placement exactly the same between the two and they seem to struggle printing round domes. If you have the old JAG dome set your in like Flynn.
Interestingly they provide two different types of masts for each hull, an early and late. Masts are good.
I purchased these for a “look see”. But I have Hobby Boss Lassen, the Fujimi McCain, and Dream Models Flight 3. So for now storage, TBD.
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