ACTION FORCE GERMAN VARIANTS FALKE

SATT FALKE

Codename: Sparrow Hawk

Personal Name: Van Der Bergh, Pieter

SATT Number: 342101

Primary Speciality: Shock Paratrooper

Secondary Speciality: Automatic Weapons

Birthplace: Brussels, Belgium

Member of Belgium’s crack display parachute team. Since transferred to SATT following discharge on compassionate grounds from Air Force. Qualified expert in all NATO and Warsaw Pact automatic weapons. Hang-Glides in his spare time. The calmest member of the SATT Force. Highly experienced fighter, a good man to have on your side.

Falke (translated to Falcon in English) was the German version of the SAS Sparrowhawk (from the Para Attack set). Falke came boxed with the SATT parachute. He came witha grenade launcher, machete, grapple hook, ammo box, detonator, parachute, parachute harness and straps.

The SAS Sparrowhawk figure is a repaint of the SAS Pilot.

In 1983 Germany released their versions of Action Force as Anti-Terror Teams and Terror Teams. In Germany the logos on the figures were all changed and instead of replica guns they had weapons that looked less-real! The German toy boxes were all cardboard and did not have plastic windows like in other countries.

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Body Mould

Falke had a moulded helmet and visor. He also had an oxygen mask on his face. He has a moulded jacket and trousers along with belt and webbing. He has a water bottle in the small of his back and pockets down his legs. The ATT emblem is on both shoulders.

Please note the below figure is the SAS version.

ACCESSORIES

Falke came with a grenade gun, grappling hook, grey machete, grey detonator and grey ammo box.

He also came with a parachute harness, parachute and four connecting straps. Each strap had one end that connected to the harness that held the figure. The other end divided into two pieces that connected to the parachute. Pictures below show how the straps connected the parachute and the harness that held the figure.

GALLERY

PACKAGING

The Falke figure came boxed.

File Card

Information about the figure could be found on the back of the figures file card (the Datafile information).

VARIANTS

Falke was the German version of the SAS Sparrowhawk. The same mould was used for the SAS Pilot an the german Chopper figure.

LOOKS FAMILIAR

Except for the grenade launcher, Falke and the S.A.S. Para Attack had the same accessories as the first series U.S. Paratrooper and second series Para Attack. The U.S. Paratrooper had different coloured accessories.

Looks Familiar

The grenade launcher also came with the German Schnellfeur figure and the Spurhund figure. A different coloured version came with the third series Gung-Ho figure. A blue version came with the Space force Battle Gear pack.