МиГ-3

In the first month of war there was a necessity, to defend Moscow from air attacks Protected Moscow the Sixth fighting aviation air defence corps the Air defence corps had seven hundred forty planes including two hundred twenty MiG-3 Anti-aircraft defence had 100 antiaircraft guns of 336 machine guns 618 searchlight installations 124 air balloons In radius of 120 kilometres of the purpose found out Radar stations "Redyt" In suburbs of Moscow has been constructed a lot of false installations breadboard models of factories, bridges, warehouses.
The Soviet pilots have obliged to apply ram bow even at serviceable arms. At night on July, 21st In Moscow the signal "Air-raid warning" has sounded
250 German bombers took part in the first raid
In the sky there was a nightmare the Soviet pilots They had no skills of night air battle had difficulties with definition of the purposes. Could not distinguish and another's planes Confusion strengthened Soviet bombers Pe-2 They They played a role of false German bombers attacked false targets And their example was followed by German planes
Some Pe-2 have been equipped by lighting installations on wings
Having shined the German plane, they specified it anti-aircraft or to the fighters But also Pe-2 sustained losses from "friendly fire"
At 6 o'clock fires in Moscow have extinguished By each brought down German plane have found out a detailed plan of Moscow and main дель attacks Kreml
The attack has repeated in a day Germans broke through screens not a dense system and one by one But were not a success Germans have lost 200 cars for 18 days Moscow too has suffered There were hundreds victims and thousand wounded men But losses widely were not discussed, abatises assorted quickly, funnels were immediately fallen asleep Capital should was look unapproachably
Skilled test pilot Suprun has suggested to generate separate subdivisions from the best pilots of the USSR of the Shelf 403,402 have generated for 3 days Have armed MiGами, and have sent to battle Under control of skilled pilots whimsical cars became the terrible weapon If conditions a fighter demanded there was an attack plane It bombed crossings, Colonel Suprun shot enemy columns on roads was lost in July, 1941 battling with six enemy planes Three planes to it it was possible to destroy But mortally wounded, has put the MiG on a rural meadow has continued to command well-known pilot Kokinaki Flying on MiG pilots were convinced by the Regiment
, What is the theories about air war were erroneous Instead of fights at far heights, there were battles at height of 2-3 kilometres to Force the German plane is risen on 7000 metres and it was impossible to shoot it Pilots They have found a way out of this situation dived from above on Germans And below German planes trapped I-16 Planes less high-speed but mobile
But it was possible only to skilled pilots Young pilots were not able to do it And fighter MiG had one more essential lack On it unexpectedly the motor could cease to work
MiG required constant service And flied a little Without bottle with compressed air and cars with hot water could not be launched engine the plane From for insignificant breakages it was necessary to utilise planes About 4000 planes because of malfunctions stood idle in airdrome

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[login098hoywty]

Offensive strategy was unsuccessful. In the first some days have been destroyed or damaged many fighter aircrafts by the Big problem there was a terror of German bombers in the field of the Soviet air bases.

[login098hoywty]

The reserves which have arrived on front, could not compensate loss of fighters. Therefore the Soviet bombers acted without fighting protection, and had huge losses.but, this problem became more, because of insufficient training standard pilots. fighting protection has not been properly organised, the radio communication between groups of fighters and bombers properly did not work. From for it, fighting protection overtook groups of bombers and lost them

[login098hoywty]

Offensive strategy was unsuccessful. In the first some days have been destroyed or damaged many fighter aircrafts by the Big problem there was a terror of German bombers in the field of the Soviet air bases.

The reserves which have arrived on front, could not compensate loss of fighters.

[IanHunedoara8]

Needs better translation. Migs 1 and 3 are important warbirds and must not be overlooked by combat aviation history.

[login098hoywty]

@IanHunedoara8 MiG a bad airplane. Text translation I can not improve, If that that is not clear, address to me. I will try to explain

[IanHunedoara8]

Soviet Air Force suffered heavily in 1941 from two factors: the terrible attrition on aircraft parked on vulnerable exposed fields during the first weeks of the war AND the great harm done to both designers engineers by Stalin's Yehzovist purges. Lavochkin himself was arrested and imprisoned for a brief period. I-16's were largely destroyed on the ground, leaving the hastily built Mig 1's as stopgaps. They were not well noted as dogfighters but their speed of 391 mph helped them to elude Me s

[login098hoywty]

@IanHunedoara8 Lavochkin has not been taken into custody. Mig was a bad airplane. Because collapsed in flight time. The reasons of defeat of the Soviet aircraft during the first weeks of war was much more. The Air Forces of the USSR had no chances, successfully to be at war with Germans

[Zaswheels]

Very hard victory in the air battle!

[malbergmoscow]

Да и обзор...

[malbergmoscow]

Машина тяжела на малых высотах и вооружение... пулеметы...

[IanHunedoara8]

@login098hoywty Poor strategy plagued Soviet AF during entire war- only emergency evacuation of factories to the Russian East saved the means of production for the air force. Contribution of Mig1 showed Soviet ground forces in front of Moscow the skies above them were no longer completely dominated by Germans and that German bombers could no longer fly unescorted with assurance of no challenge by Soviet fighters

[IanHunedoara8]

See the movie "Moghilev",Up until end of 1941 Soviet defenders had no air support at all until the Mig 1's appeared over Moscow front. Whilethe ungainly and nose-heavy Migs were not capable dogfighters Migs restored combat morale of ground infantry and issued serious challenge to He111 and Ju-88's that were flying unescorted up until 12/41.

[mizukami999]

@login098hoywty That's not true. The failure was about losing everything on the forward fields during the first several days. And that's because of offensive strategy.

[CommanderUTube]

Political purges were the order of the day and wrought havoc on the Russian war effort