Italeri 2679 - 1/48 Messerschmitt Me 262 B-1a /U-1 Nachtjaeger WWII  [IT-2679S]

Period: 2nd World War

Nation: Germany

Model Dim.: 22,1 cm

Messerschmitt us 262 B-1a /U1

Deriving through Messerschmitt myself 262 A, the B-1a/U1 variation originated to make a night time response bomber supposed to look at numerous allied bomber atmosphere raids through the skies of Germany inside the past couple of phase of World War II. Laden with the characteristic Neptun system antenna masts on its nose, it absolutely was characterised with a two-man fuselage which housed the pilot which means radar operator. Like one-man me personally 262 a variation, it absolutely was running on two Junker Jumo 004-B jet propulsion machines that brought it to an archive rate, the 1940’s, of 870 Km/h at a 6,000 metre altitude, that means it is about 150 Km/h faster than simply about any allied piston motor bomber. Greatly armed with 4 MK 108 30mm cannons, it attained procedure units much too late enough cause for just some models, nonetheless it quickly acquired many victories within the allied airplanes.