ICM 48239 1/48 Ju 88-6b, WWII German Night Fighter

Description

Highly detailed plastic model kit

1:48 scale

Unassembled/unpainted

In the beginning of 30s it was appeared in the world an idea of high-speed bomber that could outstrip contemporary fighters. One of the objectifications of this conception became the twin-engine bomber Ju 88 designed by a German Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG company.

Since the spring of 1941 it were produced Ju 88A-4 planes with liquid-cooled Jumo 211J engines of increased power and more powerful armament.

Ju 88C-6b was the 1943 night fighter version of A-4 and differed by setting one MG FF cannon with three MG 17 machine guns in the opaque nose and two MG FF in the ventral gondola. Some planes had 2 more MG FF guns mounted in the fuselage motionless at an angle forward upward. FuG 202 or FuG 220 radars were also installed.

These aircraft were used as night fighters in Western and Eastern fronts in 1943 1945.