Assembly model, Revell, Junkers Ju 87 G/D, 62 parts

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Plastic assembly model from Revell. Contains no paint or glue. Scale: 1:72 Number of elements: 62 Level of difficulty: 3 Length of finished model: 155 mm Wingspan: 211 mm The Junkers Ju-87 Stuka (short for German Sturzkampfflugzeug, meaning dive bomber) is a German single-engine dive bomber with a classic tail , wings in an inverted gull-wing configuration and all-metal construction. The Ju-87 is one of the most famous aircraft of the Luftwaffe, a symbol of its power next to the Me-109. At the beginning of the war (1939-1941) it became a symbol of the Blitzkrieg, often causing panic among enemy soldiers by installing acoustic sirens (so-called jerychońskie trunks) emitting a specific sound during a diving flight. The creator of the machine was Hermann Pohlmann, and the Ju-87 first took to the air in 1935 and went into production two years later. During the Spanish Civil War, without encountering a serious enemy in the air, it could prove effective in the missions for which it was designed. Thanks to the possibility of a very steep dive, while maintaining a relatively low speed, it achieves a very high bombing efficiency. Stuka′s fame was confirmed during his activities in Poland, Holland, France, Greece and Crete. However, during the Battle of Britain, the slow fixed landing gear Stukas were simply killed by RAF aircraft and as a result they were relegated to attacking less defended targets. On the Eastern Front, the Ju-87 played a role primarily as a close support aircraft and an excellent tank destroyer. Hans Ulrich Rudel - the most decorated Luftwaffe pilot has 519 destroyed Soviet tanks to his credit. During the war, the production of the Ju-87 was stopped many times, but it always turned out that it had to be restarted because there was no other aircraft that could replace it worthy. During the war, a dozen versions and versions of the Ju-87 were created. The first mass produced was the Ju-87 B (Berta). It is powered by two versions