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Bronco: Rhine Maiden and launcher
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Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 02:36 AM UTC


Darren Baker takes a look at the German Rheinmetall ‘Rheintochter’ R2 anti-aircraft missile and launcher from Bronco Models in 1/35th scale.

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Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 03:23 AM UTC
Looks like an interesting kit to add to the stash.

"Cruise missile of its day" isn't a proper analogy, though. Cruise missiles are air-ground or ground-to-ground. This was a ground launched air defense weapon. It was more like the Nike-Hercules or SA-2 of its day.
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Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 04:08 AM UTC
I do wonder if this missiles might have been more effective from air to ground.
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Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 05:11 AM UTC
The warhead was too small (300 lbs.) to inflict any major damage on ground targets. Fire it into a nice, big and juicy bomber formation flying at 10,000 ft. and now you're talking about a real target-heavy environment. An air-to-air version was also designed.
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Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 08:57 AM UTC
All speculation, as was the rather cool-looking Panther launch vehicle that I recently saw offered by someone.
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