Showing posts with label USSR 1941-1945. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USSR 1941-1945. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Supermarine Spitfire. European Users, part eighteen. Soviet Spitfires.

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  Since June 1941, when Germany invaded the USSR and the Soviets joined the Allies, the USSR showed interest in acquiring the Spitfire. In f...
Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Lavochkin La-5 In Soviet Service. Part four.

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  In the summer of 1943 a two-seater variant of the La-5F was adapted by the Lavochkin Design Bureau. The La-5UTI (which stands for 'Fig...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Lavochkin La-5 In Soviet Service. Part three.

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  The Lavochkin La-5FN was a variant of the regular La-5F with a fuel injected engine, a supercharger air intake, a revised exhaust flap and...
Thursday, 12 September 2024

Lavochkin La-5 In Soviet Service. Part two.

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  The Lavochkin La-5F got its name from the ASh-82F engine, where the letter 'F' stands for 'boosted' in Russian. This engin...
Thursday, 5 September 2024

Lavochkin La-5 In Soviet Service. Part one.

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  The Lavochkin La-5 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of the World War 2 which was itself an improvement from the previous LaGG-1 and LaGG-3.  ...
Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Eight.

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  The SB continued to serve during World War 2, specially during the siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Moscow, as we've already state...
Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Seven.

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  The SB continued to serve during World War 2, specially during the siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Moscow, as we've already state...
Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Six.

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  The SB continued to serve during World War 2, specially during the siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Moscow, as we've already state...
Friday, 5 January 2024

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Five.

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  Germany launched Operation Barbarossa on 22nd June 1941, by invading the USSR. At that time the Tupolev SB was the most numerous bomber in...
Tuesday, 2 January 2024

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Four.

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  The Tupolev PS-41 was a civilian version of the SB 2M-103. It was developed by Aeroflot in 1939 and by December 1940 forty-nine machines w...
Thursday, 22 September 2022

Focke-Wulf Fw.200 Condor. Part Three. Even more foreign Users

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  The Focke-Wulf Fw.200 Condor was a German four-engined monoplane designed and manufactured by Focke-Wulf which was initially conceived as ...
Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3, part five. Prototypes and experimental variants

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  There were also some prototypes and experimental variants based on the LaGG-3. Those were the following: LaGG-3 M-107: In order to improve...
Thursday, 7 July 2022

Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3, part four

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  The LaGG-3's production was rushed when Germany invaded the USSR on 21st June 1941, therefore, factory production focused on manufactu...
Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3, part three

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  The LaGG-3's production varied from series to series. In the last post we wrote about the Series 1, the first mass produced batch.  Th...