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Folks,

Well, AMP has now gone and kitted the Moskalev SAM-23!

If I'm inferring things correctly, that trailing arm served primarily as an altitude monitoring device. The pilot would still have to respond to terrain obstacles to pop up and over however. It also sounds like the arm was intended to be trailed along roads? That would at least mostly avoid it getting snared on something so firmly that it would be ripped off or manage to pull the aircraft down.

I can't really see that arm being used to rip away barbed wire barricades. Doing so would be a very tricky thing and it wouldn't take much to defeat such an attempt - just include a length of well anchored steel cable in the mix and the SAM-23's trailing arm would snare onto that like a hooked fish with an ensuing nose dive into the ground.

It seems more likely that the conventional armaments carried by the SAM-23 were what would do for barricade and fortification clearing.

Then again, there's never been any shortage of truly whacky and impractical ideas that bubble up in wartime...

Anyway, at least someone has popped out a kit of this particular one!

Madoc

<blockquote data-quote="Madoc" data-source="post: 119175" data-attributes="member: 351">Folks,<a href="http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/preww2/previews/amp/7202.htm" target="_blank">Well, AMP has now gone and kitted the Moskalev SAM-23!</a>If I'm inferring things correctly, that trailing arm served primarily as an altitude monitoring device.&nbsp; The pilot would still have to respond to terrain obstacles to pop up and over however.&nbsp; It also sounds like the arm was intended to be trailed along roads?&nbsp; That would at least mostly avoid it getting snared on something so firmly that it would be ripped off or manage to pull the aircraft down.I can't really see that arm being used to rip away barbed wire barricades.&nbsp; Doing so would be a very tricky thing and it wouldn't take much to defeat such an attempt - just include a length of well anchored steel cable in the mix and the SAM-23's trailing arm would snare onto that like a hooked fish with an ensuing nose dive into the ground.It seems more likely that the conventional armaments carried by the SAM-23 were what would do for barricade and fortification clearing.Then again, there's never been any shortage of truly whacky and impractical ideas that bubble up in wartime...Anyway, at least someone has popped out a kit of this particular one!Madoc</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Madoc, post: 119175, member: 351"] Folks, [url=http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/preww2/previews/amp/7202.htm]Well, AMP has now gone and kitted the Moskalev SAM-23![/url] If I'm inferring things correctly, that trailing arm served primarily as an altitude monitoring device. The pilot would still have to respond to terrain obstacles to pop up and over however. It also sounds like the arm was intended to be trailed along roads? That would at least mostly avoid it getting snared on something so firmly that it would be ripped off or manage to pull the aircraft down. I can't really see that arm being used to rip away barbed wire barricades. Doing so would be a very tricky thing and it wouldn't take much to defeat such an attempt - just include a length of well anchored steel cable in the mix and the SAM-23's trailing arm would snare onto that like a hooked fish with an ensuing nose dive into the ground. It seems more likely that the conventional armaments carried by the SAM-23 were what would do for barricade and fortification clearing. Then again, there's never been any shortage of truly whacky and impractical ideas that bubble up in wartime... Anyway, at least someone has popped out a kit of this particular one! Madoc [/QUOTE]

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