Thank you for visiting the page! Ships with careful packing from Japan. Description Product description 1/72 scale plastic model. F9F-2 The Panther was Grumman's first jet fighter and the first U.S. Naval jet fighter to participate in actual combat. In the Korean War, the Panther was the central force of the carrier task force in the attack against the Communist ground forces, but it was also the first U.S. Navy aircraft to shoot down a jet fighter.