Italeri 1/48 Ju87G1 Stuka Kanonenvogel Ground Attack Bomber Kit

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The JU-87 dive bomber is certainly one of the best-known and most famous aircraft of the Second World War. This characteristic "gull" wing aircraft gained great fame at the beginning of the war and is considered, together with the Panzer Divisions of the Wehrmacht, the symbol of the Blitzkrieg. During the war, new versions with different operational profiles were introduced. The Ju-87G was developed as an "anti-tank" version of the famous Stuka to counter the impressive number of enemy armored vehicles on the Eastern Front after 1943. The famous Stuka pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel suggested applying two 37 mm Flak 18 cannons housed in underwing pods to better counter this new threat. In this configuration the Ju-87G “Kanonenvogel” proved to be extremely effective in the hands of expert pilots.