Saturday, February 29, 2020

1/144 FuSE-65 WÜRZBURG-RIESE - Brengun




1/144 FuSE-65 WÜRZBURG-RIESE - Brengun
The Würzburg giant is a radar device from Telefunken and was used to locate enemy aircraft during the air war in World War II . It was an enlarged version of the FuMG 62 Würzburg it used frequencies around 560 MHz ( decimeter waves ). The precise control of the 11-ton rotating part consisting of a parabolic mirror and an operator's cabin, it used  Leonard set developed by AEG .

The stationary “giants” (camouflage names: radio transceiver FuSE 65 or radio measuring device - FuMG 65), introduced in mid-1941, were used to guide the night fighters of the luftwaffe and were installed for fire control on the guide towers of the large flax towers . 

The mobile Würzburg giants FuSE 65 E were mounted on railway carriages, while the fixed version for the Navy was the radio measurement locator FuMO 214, which was used to fire-control their coastal artillery (e.g. the Fjell fortress ).

*** machine translation was used ***

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg_radar
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg-Riese

Catalog number: BRS144049

PE and resin construction kit of german radar

Available: February 2020
Price: 30.64 EUR

http://www.brengun.cz/e-shop/1-144-construction-kits-18/fuse-65-w%C3%BCrzburg-riese-1699


Brengun also do other German Radar mixed media kits:

FREYA-LZ A (FuMG-401)


FREYA EGON I (FuS An 730)

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