DRAGON 1/72 60643 5.5cm Zwilling Flakpanzer, Western Front 1945

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