Dragon 7488 1/72 5.5cm Zwilling Flakpanzer

This is a plastic model kit, which comes unassembled and unpainted. So glue, model paints and other basic modelling tools are additionally required.

Feature:

Newly tooled 5.5cm Zwilling Flak cannons can be posed at different angles
Highly detailed commander's cupola on accurately molded Flak turret
Slide-molded upper hull w/full detail
Fully detailed 5.5cm cannons
Realistic gun mantlet assembled from multiple parts
Detailed design for rare plate and stowage boxes
Engine deck w/delicate details
Armored side skirt reproduced
Intricate road wheels
One-piece DS tracks

The Luftwaffe was numerically outnumbered as WWII progressed, with the Fatherland and tactical units constantly being bombed and strafed by enemy aircraft. This called for more effective antiaircraft systems than Germany hitherto possessed. A new vehicle was planned ? the 5.5cm Zwilling Flakpanzer V ? though like the Flakpanzer V "Coelian", it was never put into production. Development of the twin-barrel 5.5cm Zwilling was authorized on 8 May 1944 and it featured a special Krupp armored turret weighing 9.06 tonnes mounted on a Panther Ausf.G chassis. The antiaircraft vehicle would require a four-man crew and carry 104 ammo rounds. A wooden prototype turret was completed by January 1945, although further development of the 5.5cm Zwilling Flakpanzer V was eventually cancelled on 14 February.