The kit is molded in light gray plastic and is nicely detailed in this scale. This kit is a re-issue of the Hobbycraft/Canada 1/72 scale Ju 87G. From a comfortable dive angle, the firepower of these guns could easily punch through the armor of Soviet tanks at their weakest point - from the top. One noteworthy version of the Stuka was the Ju 87G which sported a pair of 37mm Flak guns in pods under the wings. While an essential part of the early Blitzkrieg, the Ju 87 proved vulnerable to air attack during the Battle of Britain and was relegated to operations where the Luftwaffe had better air superiority - the Russian Front. Someone else came up with the bright idea to stick whistles on the landing gear fairings to create what would become the frightening sound that made the Stuka 'famous'.

One of the innovations in the design of the Stuka was an automatic dive recovery system that would continue to pull the nose up from the steep dive should the pilot black out from the high G-forces. The swing-arm bomb release mechanism would swing the bomb clear of the aircraft (if the bomb was simply released from under the fuselage without the swing-arm, the bomb would fall through the turning propeller!).

Its design allowed for steep dive angles that essentially allowed the pilot to place a bomb on whatever was under the nose of his aircraft. The Ju-87 was designed in the 1930s as a precision dive-bomber.

Stuka from diver bomber to tank buster