[Epapazian]

I recently redid an IXO Yak-9 into a Baltic front machine, with a red and white striped spinner and two shades of gray on the upper surfaces ( sorry, I can't post pictures at this point ). Since I couldn't find any documentation for that thing sticking out from the right wing, I deleted it and filled the empty space with a glue and putty mix. Does anyone know what that was intended to represent? Perhaps it was some sort of can opener for Kamikaze-style attacks on German bombers, but at this stage of the war ( 1944-45 )the Russians weren't that desperate. Or maybe it's a giant chopstick? Hmmm.