1/48 ICM Mistel S1 - German Composite Training Aircraft 48101 - MPM Hobbies

1/48 ICM Mistel S1 - German Composite Training Aircraft 48101

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Scale: 1:48
Date: 10.01.2022
Time Period: WW2
Markings:

Bf I09F-4 (Mistel S1), German research institute for gliding (DFS), Ainring, Germany, 1944
Bf 109F-4 (Mistel Si), Nordhausen, Germany, early 1944
Ju 88А-4 (Mistel Si), German research institute for gliding (DFS), Ainring, Germany, 1944
Ju 88А-4 (Mistel Si), Nordhausen, Germany, early 1944

Model Size: 301 x 421 mm
Box Size: 410 x 260 x 100 mm
Number of Details: 280

Insufficient attention to long-range bombers forced the Luftwaffe command in the middle of World War II to look for other ways of striking long-range targets. One of these options was the Mistel Strike composite aviation complex. The idea was to make one of the aircraft of the complex a kind of large guided projectile; the second aircraft (located on top) took over the control functions. The strike aircraft was supposed to be a conventional bomber. In it, instead of the cockpit, a huge warhead with an explosive charge weighing about 1800 kg was mounted. The planes had to fly in a coupler, and the control plane could receive fuel from the tanks of the lower plane. In the Mistel 1 variant, the control plane was the Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4 fighter, and the attack plane was the Junkers Ju 88A-4 bomber. The training version of the complex for practicing control and guidance methods received the designation Mistel S1.