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

• 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.