LaGG-3 - The Soviet Fighter With a Reputation

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The LaGG-3 was a Second World War Soviet fighter that was plagued by flaws and poor production quality. Despite this, it was one of the backbones of the Soviet Airforce and laid the groundwork for one of the great fighters of the conflict. Join us for a look at this controversial aircraft.
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0:04 History
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7:48 Head to Head
9:52 Notable Pilots
11:15 Conclusion
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- Soviet Combat Aircraft of the Second World War Volume One: Single-Engined Fighters - Yefim Gordon and Dmitri Khazanov - ISBN 1-85780-083-4
- LaGG & Lavochkin Aces of World War 2 - George Mellinger - ISBN 1-84176-609-7
- Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-F Series - Robert Jackson - ISBN 978-1-4728-0489-1
- Russian Aircraft of World War II - Edward Ward - ISBN 978-1-83886-083-7
- German Fighter Aircraft of World War II - Thomas Newdick - ISBN 978-1-78274-970-7
- Aircraft of World War II - Chris Grant - ISBN 1-84013-336-8
- Fighting Aircraft of World War II - Bill Gunston - ISBN 1-84065-092-3
- Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II - ISBN 1-85170-493-0
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@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Hey there! In the near future, after a few videos focused on other nations, I will do the Yak-1, so we can have the trio of early war Soviet fighters and do a comparison between the three, possibly with its own video. Then I'll move to the more successful bunch, the La-5, Yak-7 and 9. I'd like to give a special thanks to Massimo Tessitori for allowing me to use his fantastic LaGG-3 profiles. Profiles of Massimo Tessitori, sovietwarplanes. Next video will most likely be an American fighter, and then an Axis one. Thank you for watching!

@mikhailiagacesa3406 2 года назад

Thank You!

@Bochi42 2 года назад

Great video on a very interesting aircraft which gets little attention. I'm really looking forward to more videos on the other aircraft you've mentioned!

@aigarslindentals8315 2 года назад

Russians called it a flying coffin.

@craigwi1412 2 года назад

I would like to see one on the Yak 9.

@huskyflylangley6053 Год назад

Love your series! I have to say though that the AN-2 is my favorite Soviet plane. Yessss, I know it has no glory or glamor, but it is the horseshoe crab of airplanes; not needing to change much to do its job. Considered obsolete when new, there is nothing built before or since that can do its job.... 3200 pound load off a 600 foot dirt strip, serviceable by one person in primitive conditions, useable in all weathers, 25 mph stall speed, and a bpatload of them built. Cessna lobbied the FAA not to grant commercial certificate, because the want you to buy $2M Caravan which does less and costs more to service. AN-2 with 1500 hp Garrett turbine is a beast at 1/3 the cost or less. Much like the DC-3 or C-130 safely out of date but still dead useful! I got training in AN-2 in Romania, and hope to fly them some more, a great ship indeed.

@terrynewsome6698 2 года назад

The yak was the fighter hunter, the mig the sheild of cities from bombers, but the lag was the fighter to fill both. I like it the same way I like the hurricane and p-40, not the greatest but they held the line when no one else would.

@Gaste11o 2 года назад

Agree! LaGG-3 closely resembles the spec and faith of P-40

@terrynewsome6698 2 года назад

@@Gaste11o yep, she served long and well. And that something say in such times.

@TheWhoamaters 2 года назад

The Lavochkin series was good too

@jonredcorn862 Год назад

That's a great comparison, it wasn't the fastest, it wasn't the best, but it held the line when nobody else could. She saved mother Russia in her hour of need. Easily one of my favorite planes to fly in il2. It just exudes Russian ingenuity. Then it went on to become the revered La-5 and La-5Fn, as well as the La-7 all highly respected fighters.

@lawrencefox563 Год назад

@@Gaste11o Wasn't Allison inferior in power to weight to Klimov/ Hisso.

@davidherbst 2 года назад

It's interesting that the LaGG-3 was made into the superior La-5 by swapping out its water-cooled engine for a radial, when the Curtiss P-36 was developed into the superior P-40 by making the opposite swap.

@brettpeacock9116 2 года назад

And, in Japan in early 1945, the in-line V12 engined Kawasaki Ki61 was re-engined with a powerful Radial- in 3 weeks- after the American B-29s destroyed the factory where the Ki 61 engines were made... and that turned a good fighter aircraft into the Ki-100, a staggeringly good fighter, able to hold its own with the P-51 and the P-47, both .

@amerigo88 2 года назад

The Lagg-3 engine was a licensed copy of the Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine that was used in a number of famous aircraft, including the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 and Dewoitine D.520. The LaGG-5 engine was a licensed copy of the Wright R-1820 air-cooled engine that powered the B-17 bomber.

@19Koty96 2 года назад

@@amerigo88 ASh-82 was a 14 cylinder engine. How is it a license copy of the 9 cylinder R-1820?

@19Koty96 2 года назад

@@bololollek9245 Yeah, now that would make sense. But calling it itself a copy was a bit too much for my pedantic mind :)

@lupodimontenero661 2 года назад

@@19Koty96 this is only partially true, the Ash 82 is a redesign of the Shvetsov M-62 which in turn derives from the Shvetsov M-25, this is a licensed version of the American Wright R-1820 Cyclone, therefore a ... great-grandfather of the Ash 82

@magoid 2 года назад

The one thing that plagued Lavochkin fighters the most, was problems in fit and finish of the aircraft. If you look at, it looks very aerodynamic. The general layout is "right" for the era, with wide track landing gear retracting inwards, fuel in the wings, radiator intakes very smooth and in the fuselage, leaving the wings free. But most of that was wasted by bad quality control. It wasn't until 44 that the LA-7 received a effort to make the external surface as smooth as possible, with great results, the top speed increasing a lot without any engine power increase. Before people judge the factory or its workers, keep in mind that in 1941, there was a tremendous push to get all sorts of armament out in the hands of the soldiers, and quality perfection was useless if the object wasn't available at the front. And to make things worse, whole factories had to be relocated thousands of kilometers away to avoid being captured by the fast advancing Germans. All of that affected complex machinery like aircraft big time. Only by 1944 things where going back on track, but by that time it was Germany that was suffering the same manufacturing problems that plagued the Soviets early in the war.

@patrickmichaelspencecooler4768 2 года назад

I agree, that said the La-5 was a fine fighter.

@Bochi42 2 года назад

And also many of the most experienced and skilled workers in the plants likely volunteered or were drafted into the Red Army which had to be expanded dramatically. The aircraft being built from this treated plywood, Delta Wood it required a certain set of knowledge and skills to do it correctly. In the UK the production of the Mosquito called for finding people skilled in woodwork as much as possible to make and supervise the construction of the aircraft. The situation in the Soviet Union was far more chaotic than in Britain due to the invasion and other issues that you have mentioned as well. So the in general I'd say the design was fine if not very good but the combination of poor quality in production of the airframe and also of the engines hampered the early war LaGG's greatly. Lavochkin was a great aircraft designer, the problems of quality were beyond his control mostly and Stalin in his anger blamed him unfairly. If I recall correctly Lavochkin was also Jewish and Stalin was bigoted against Jews.

@geronimo957 2 года назад

@@Bochi42 Lavochkin wasn`t Jewish, Gurevich (of Mikoyan Gurevich or MIG design bureau)was.

@ashleysmith3106 Год назад

The very fact that Russia was able to keep producing materiel under Nazi assault says much for the resilience of their Industry, whether it was planes, tanks or guns!

@johnceglick8714 Год назад

@@geronimo957 Lucky he was tolerated. By 1944 , The Luftwaffe was very much lacking experienced pilots.

@rosshemmings9384 2 года назад

It may not have been an outstanding aircraft but it sure was good looking.

@MDzmitry 2 года назад

Fun fact: Pokryshkin, while he loved the looks of MiG, Yak and P-39, really despised LaGG for both the looks and performance (taken from a personal interview dated December 1944)

@martryan2060 2 года назад

Great video on a underatted aircraft. Keep them coming. Video on the SB2 bomber and it's Many guises would be interesting. Thanks.👍

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you! The SB2 will be a while, but I will get there eventually.

@sim.frischh9781 2 года назад

It´s fascinating how planes that are by almost all metrics BAD can have such positive effects beyond themselves. So much technology that failed initially became the stepping stone for something almost revolutionary. The LaGG-3 is one of those failing technologies that became something new and successful.

@farkinarkin5099 2 года назад

"Lakirovanny Garantirovanny Grob" ... those pilots sure had a sense of humor! Great video on the LaGG-3 series. It seems they were probably very cost effective (especially when one considers how much a BF-109F-2 would have cost to produce. The sub-standard plexi must have been really annoying. P.S. I like the well laid out format of what you are presenting. You must be an engineer.

@roum22 2 года назад

Like the Curtiss P40, a handsome little aircraft good enough to hold the line till a better alternative came onstream.

@williamkoppos7039 2 года назад

One of the best looking fighters of WW2 if nothing else. Especially the early ones. Great vid series.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@kaletovhangar Год назад

I wonder what would have happened if it received a body of La-7 while still having it's linear engine.

@shawns0762 2 года назад

Aerodynamically the Lavochkins were excellent, the final LAGG-3 could do 435 mph with the 1,650 hp VK-107 engine, it was almost as fast as a P-51D and that had a hundred more HP.

@Easy-Eight 2 года назад

The P-51D was a flying fuel tank. Also, the radio system added hundreds of pounds of weight. The P-51H could do nearly 500 MPH and that's about as good as it gets with a piston engine.

@5000mahmud 2 года назад

I've noticed the LAGG-3 and early razorback mustangs look similar, just need some streamlining refinements on the nose of the LAGG, a Meredith effect radiator, retractable tailwheel and wheel cover doors = soviet mustang lookalike!

@shawns0762 2 года назад

@@5000mahmud No fighter in the war had better performance than its contemporaries when it came into service than the Mig-1, it could fly a lot faster and a lot higher than anything else. The Yak-3 and 9 were excellent aerodynamically too. The Russian designs were guided by an institute (TSAGI), there engines were sub par however.

@zacharyprovance3128 Год назад

I always thought it was a shame that early war fighters often times didn't get to make it to their peak, or if they did, it was either far too late or was a promising prototype that got shelved (final P-40, the Chrysler powered P-47, final LaGG, and so on)

@ronpower7790 2 года назад

Great video...really appreciate some more light on Russian WW2 planes. Theres relatively few detailed videos on RU-vid about that topic, while theres tons of videos on german or American planes.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@patrickthomas9006 2 года назад

I know a few people have already thanked you for providing more information about the conditions and equipment used on the Eastern front. As an American, the information available on WW2 is usually heavily biased by heritage and patriotism, crediting the Western allies with defeating the Germans, or doing more to push back their advances than maybe is justified. Aircraft development seems to be especially impacted in this way. British pride in the Lancaster and Spitfire is almost a cultural institution. American pride in the Mustang, Flying Fortress and Superfortress nearly match the British pride in their own craft. I'm glad to have information on the beautiful and significant planes used by the Red Army.

@Helm8000 2 года назад

The LaGG-3 story reminds me of the Hawker fighters. An underpowered but sturdy design that was overshadowed by the more agile fighter (Yak-1/Early Spitfire) but eventually evolved into the countries most powerful design by swapping for an almost twice as powerful engine: LaGG-3 -> La-5 -> La-7, Klimov (1050hp) -> M82 (1,850 hp) just like the Hurricane -> Typhoon -> Tempest, Merlin (1030hp) -> Napier (2045hp). Just an observation.

@patrickmichaelspencecooler4768 2 года назад

Spot on. The only problem with the Napier-Sabre in the Typhoon was reliability. The Tempest had the radial and was much more reliable, hence used off aircraft carriers also.

@miquelescribanoivars5049 2 года назад

@@patrickmichaelspencecooler4768 That and early Typhoon airframes fell apart pretty readily, which honestly probably happened to quite a few soviet aicraft at the time given the strain and limitations impossed by the emergency of aircraft mass production.

@carcharinus6367 2 года назад

@@patrickmichaelspencecooler4768 - Tempest II with radial Bristol-Centaurus - in fact - did't participate in the 2nd WW.

@janmale7767 8 месяцев назад

Great video, you give us the objective fact, i always appreciate that! Intresting how certain aircraft desighs reach there zeniths, by switching from inline to radial or vice versa! The Fw 190 switching to an inline in the shape of the Junkers jumo inverted v- 12 ,and the lag to the Shvetsof radial becoming the formidable La 5 or later 7!

@apfelsnutz 2 года назад

Your videos are not to be missed by the afficionado.. Thank you for your efforts !

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@BurnedOutGarage 2 года назад

Great video I didn’t even know this aircraft existed. I have seen loads on British, American and German fighters but not much on soviet. I particularly liked that they remarked the 7.62 cannon only being useful for removing paint 😂😂 from the German fighters.

@EneTheGene Год назад

Yeah that was amusing. Low caliber machine guns were already considered weak in 1941.

@kiwihame 2 года назад

That was a truly superb overview. I especially liked the way you showed the gun arrangement. Very clever, clear and understandable. Well done! 👏

@Riccardo_Silva 2 года назад

My fav ww2 underdog! BTW, as unimportant as it is, i must say it was a damn good looking plane! Fine video, thank you! Keep up the hard work! 👍🏻

@dgreen3298 2 года назад

Great video! I really enjoyed it because your videos are a good balance of general and technical knowledge at just the right length. Keep up the good work; you're definitely improving with each new effort!

@madmax6007 2 года назад

Magnificent work! Love Your channel,it's more than perfect! I wait impatiently for a video about the La-5FN 😉. Sincere congratulations. Max

@thefruitdealer4970 2 года назад

perfect! I watched your MiG 3 video the other day and loved the format, I will be subscribing and looking forward to more videos.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@Tamburello_1994 Год назад

I love the fact you included IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles footage.

@kneeslider47 Год назад

Great video, really interesting. Thanks for uploading it. Very interesting aircraft, similar in some ways to the Hawker Hurricane

@lauriwiren6398 2 года назад

Finnish airforce as well as the Japanese test flew the LaGG-3 during the war. The Japanese test pilots complainded about lack of maneuverability which was also noted on the Finnish front in dogfights. Finnish test pilots noted that although the plane had a reasonable top speed, it's accleration was sluggish. Finnish airforce used captured LaGG-3's in reconnaissance and it was noted that the plane needeed much more service and repair work than other planes. LaGG-3 made many Finnish pilots aces by presenting them with easy targets.

@barkingmonkee 2 года назад

The fact that some Soviet pilots wanted to go back to the I-16 after their units transitioned over to the LaGG sort of says it all. Nonetheless, the heroic efforts of the Soviet factory workers meant that at least there were a lot of the LaGG-3 available during the bleak days of 41 - 42 to put up some sort of fight. I'm not sure I agree with the shade thrown on the Klimov engine as it also powered several very respectable contemporary Soviet designs.

@talltroll7092 2 года назад

He never implied that it was a bad engine, just underpowered for the LaGG-3

@no-nonseplayer6612 2 года назад

Well finns did love the LaGG shoot it down

@Belsen85 2 года назад

The nickname of LaGG-3 was -- ЛаГГ-3 -- Лакированный Гарантированный Гроб -- Lacquered Guaranteed Coffin. It say a lot about the reputation :)

@soapycactuses9281 Год назад

Sadly the production of the I-180 which was compatible to the bf109e never went off due to Yakovlev and Director of the plant there openly sabotaging efforts to start production(the plant in Gorky eventually started producing Lagg's). The never generation fighters were much more wooden and much more heavier than the "Hopelessly outdated" i16. A lot of work on the never projects (Ar-2,I180/185,Tu-2,) (I220-Project which Mikoyan younger "borrowed" from polikarpov-future MIG) were going in Beria's sharaskas/OKB NKVD

@Ypog_UA 2 года назад

Another super video. After watching this my thoughts on the "coffin" have changed a bit.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@badgerresistance4322 2 года назад

Well with that description, no wonder the air cobras in the lend-lease were monumental upgrades.

@zekramnordran9526 7 месяцев назад

Clearly the upgrade it really needed was to have drawings of cats applied to the tails of all models to greatly improve survivability

@mikea266 2 года назад

Heyya, stumbled upon your channel. Keep up the good work :)

@donskinner9430 2 года назад

Great presentation... Thank you for sharing....

@klesarhr-bz5of 2 года назад

excellent review and article, thank you!

@mikhailiagacesa3406 2 года назад

I love these discussions about early war aircraft. How to deploy them strategically and operationally, not just looking at raw design data. Did anyone learn anything in China and Spain, and were they the correct conclusions? Pilot quality on operational performance; not just individual achievements and 'Kills'. The War of Mass as opposed to individual heroism. Using what's on hand as opposed to waiting for a superweapon. Etc.

@miquelescribanoivars5049 2 года назад

In the case of the Soviet Union, the purges kind-off prevented many tactical innovations developed during the Spanish Civil War from being implemented, for instance, the Soviet and Republican pilots experimented with four wing formations after taking note of how effective it was at the hands of the Condor Legion, but unfortunately this wasn't implemented in the VVS or PVO. They were some technical innovations that did stick though, like the incorporation of pilot armor and self-sealing tanks in the I-16 Type 10 and I-15 Bis and onwards, making the Soviet Union one of the earliest adopters of such technologies. Finally on the strategic front it was a mixed bag, on one hand it showed that the I-16 was starting to show its age against the more modern BF-109, particularly at high attitudes and in sustained engagements (the Condor Legion often chased after the I-16's after they were forced to retreat due to low fuel, reverse Battle of Britain style). These motivated efforts to both improve the I-16 with more powerful engines and larger fuel tanks, as well as highlighting the necessity for a replacement in the short term. A similar story happened with the Tupolev SB bomber which was not quite fast enough to avoid interception and was found to be pretty fragile. But then we have the fact that both the I-15 as well as the Cr.32's flown by their opposition were found to perform very well (I-15's suffered less losses than the I-16's during the war, while the Cr.32 outnumbered the BF-109 4 to 1 in the theater and therefore scored the bulk of the air victories for the "Nationalists"). This resulted in the USSR (and Italy) continuing the development of biplane fighters, which was a strategic blunder. It also gave nations WAY too much confidence on the survivability of bomber formations.

@mikhailiagacesa3406 2 года назад

@@miquelescribanoivars5049 Holy Crap! Thanks. Do you have a main source for this info? What's your booklist because I'm trying to research the Italian military build-up (or not build-up, depending how you look at it) in the 30's, pre-war. I'd also forgotten how sus the NKVD (Stalin) was about any Red Army 'Volunteers' that served outside the RSFSR. Hence, the distrust of any info they learned.

@josefodium8888 2 года назад

Nice video. Definitely thumbs up. Though it took me a second to understand what were those strange Sh-V-A-K and Sh-K-A-S machineguns. And then I got it I had quite a laugh. Contrary to how they are written, those names are spelled as a single word. (ʃvʌk) for the first one and (ʃkʌs) for the second. Sh is pronounced as a single sound ʃ. Like in a word "shoot" for example. Most of these military abbreviations were made to sound short and punchy. In war time is a most precious resource.

@darrellid Год назад

Enjoy your content. Thanks for sharing.

@garyhooper1820 2 года назад

Am enjoying this site. Even the comments are of interest ,as most writers have clearly been studying this subject for awhile. The adversity that was over come,and superb results deserve respect and A Well Done.

@jamescollier847 2 года назад

Brilliant! Well done! Many thanks!👍🏼

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you too!

@miquelescribanoivars5049 2 года назад

8:25 IMO when considering horizontal maneuverability you should include powerloading (power-toweight ratio combined with wing-loading), while the early LaGG-3 may had a sligth advantage in wing-loading than the F-2, the Messer power-loading would be superior giving it in an edge in a sustained turnfight, even in the horizontal. The presence of slats and weight distribution may had given it better nose authority too (which I guess its aknowledge as handling characteristics).

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you for this interesting comment. I'll consider this in future videos. Sorry for the long answer. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

@captaincasual2844 2 года назад

These are amazing keep it up ♥

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@RemusKingOfRome 2 года назад

Excellent Video

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@allgood6760 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this 👍✈️

@toonbat 2 года назад

4:45 I love how that shark nose design has the expression of a shark that is just NOT happy to be there.

@MrRugbylane 2 года назад

Excellent video.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@markbarber7839 2 года назад

Thanks for the video

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@djordjejelic5891 2 года назад

great video as allways. But can you do some videos on the late war japanese fighters like ki 84 j2m and n1k1 ?

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you! Yes, a late war Japanese fighter will be coming soon, probably in early 2022. 👍

@AntonNatarov 2 года назад

Ok, Russian is here. Thank you so much, very informative, well done! No offence, just to notice and make you a thank. I know how it's hard to pronounce Russian names, I have such difficulties with English ones too =) While you are almost correct with Galchenko... (ch must me more ch than sh) Lavochkin.... syllable accent should be on LAvochkin, not LavOchkin. Everything else is brilliantly correct.

@lawrencefox563 Год назад

Saw compared early lagg 3 versus 109 bf biggest disadvantage was 200kg and of course handling,was I16 Polikarpov ever fitted to Klimov engine?

@robbybee70 2 года назад

"I'm not supersticious or anything but this picture of a cat brings me luck"

@MarcelPolman 10 месяцев назад

I like your clear explanations. Your accent isn't at all in the way of your English language skills. Thank you for your efforts.

@701duran 2 года назад

Great video World War 2 Soviet planes aren't talked about enough

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@WarriorNoldor 2 года назад

It looks very similar to the Spitfire.

@fastonediezweite Год назад

weeeeeeelll... no. :D The shape is completely different, more "massive" so to speak. The rudder and wings have other shapes etc. ;)

@wa1ufo 2 года назад

A very nice looking aircraft.

@andrzejpl9897 Год назад

Good videos .

@brealistic3542 2 года назад

Wasn't the Soviet Pilot's nickname for this plane.. "Guarantee Varnish Coffin" ? 😁

@MenRot 2 года назад

More I Soviet and Italian machines, please

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Will do 👍

@mrjockt 2 года назад

The tactic of using the LaGG’s to destroy the bombers whilst other fighters dealt with the escort mirrors the tactics used by the R.A.F. during the Battle of Britain where the Hurricane was used to concentrate on the bombers whilst the Spitfire was concentrating on the escorting fighters.

@riazhassan6570 2 года назад

However smart the theory, what actually happened was often different. The BF 109s had an advantage in the dive, so they would often simply dive through the Spitfire cover to defend their bombers. Instead of being the hunters, the Hurricanes would find themselves under attack. Surprisingly, they acquitted themselves quite well against what was generally considered to be the best fighter during the early years

@lightfootpathfinder8218 2 года назад

The RAF were the pioneers of modern aerial warfare and probably the best air force in the world between 1939-45

@mrjockt 2 года назад

@@lightfootpathfinder8218 I’m afraid I disagree with that, the RAF were probably the best Air Force in the world from 1941 to 45, by 1939 they had forgotten most of the hard earned lessons of World War One and it took them until after the Battle of Britain to relearn them, look at the standard RAF fighter formation in 1939-40, the 3 aircraft ‘Vic’ formation it was much clumsier to control than the Luftwaffe’s ‘fingers four’ formation, with the ‘Vic’ the last man in the formation, usually the least experienced, was tasked with keeping an eye out for attacks from behind but he was usually concentrating so much on maintaining his formation position that he was normally the first to be shot down, the RAF lost a lot of young pilots that way.

@lightfootpathfinder8218 2 года назад

@@mrjockt I will admit I was wrong .. from late 1940 it was the best air force in the world. In regards to the "Vic" formation the British used in 39-40 I would totally agree with you that it was inferior to the "finger four" the Luftwaffe used during the same time so I stand corrected on that point However from late 40 early 41 I would say that in other areas of aerial warfare the RAF was more capable than other air forces of the time (night fighter operations & anti shipping operations as well as from early 1942 strategic bombing) and once it aquired these capabilities they didn't degrade over time as the war progressed(an example of this in the Luftwaffe would be the capabilities of the stuka) On the contrary I would say they improved

@misterbacon4933 2 года назад

Never heard of this plane! 😲

@MrFlintlock7 2 года назад

I always thought the LAGG got a bum rap, not unlike the Buffalo and Warhawk. They all had solid but not stellar performance, but it feels better to blame early failures on hardware than on the inexperience of the honored dead.

@ricardobeltranmonribot3182 2 года назад

Please do next the FW 190, if not, continue this video with the La-5

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

La-5 will come fairly soon. The FW 190 is a very complex fighter to do in 12 minutes. To do it I will have to split in various parts. Still haven't decided how that will work. Thank you for the suggestions.

@sigeberhtmercia767 2 года назад

@@AllthingsWW2 Perhaps, the early models pitted against the British, how they fared on the Russian front, fb variants and the subsequent Dora's. Oh, the Ta 152 would pique my interest too. As you say, a lot of material to work with.

@riazhassan6570 2 года назад

As far as ‘pretty’ goes, Soviet designs had it over those of other nations. Good performance figures, too

@lightfootpathfinder8218 2 года назад

The Spitfire Is far better looking I think

@riazhassan6570 2 года назад

@@lightfootpathfinder8218 Yes, for those that love it. For those that don’t, it might not be so. Some of the Soviet designs had a look of ‘rightness’ about them, and, in fact, were pretty good. In any case, ‘prettiness’ is a non-starter for a weapon. Brutal functionality is the most important factor.

@riazhassan6570 2 года назад

As a weapon, the Spitfire was overtaken by relatively ‘ugly’ designs, the FW190, some of the fat, ungainly looking American ones, some Italian and Japanese designs. With bigger engines and considerable tweaking of the basic concept, the Spitfire managed to stay relevant for some roles till the end, as did the 109.

@lightfootpathfinder8218 2 года назад

@@riazhassan6570 in terms of "prettiest" (based on looks) like you mentioned I'd go with the spitfire but if your talking about "brutal functionality" I'd say the the hawker hurricane ... It shot down the most German aircraft in the battle of Britain or the hawker typhoon (4 X 20mm cannons & 8 X rockets ..that's pure lethality)

@lightfootpathfinder8218 2 года назад

@@riazhassan6570 some of the later spitfire variants like the mk XlV or mk XlX were superior to the fw 190 ....also over Ceylon in 1942 the Japanese zero was found to be inferior in dog fighting to the spitfire as the Japanese came off worse in that encounter between the two

@soundknight 2 года назад

Quite an attractive plane, looks like the spitfire body with a Curtis p4 0 nose

@polakrodak8538 2 года назад

This thing is a beast in war thunder

@craigpennington1251 2 года назад

Overall look is great. Too bad that they didn't have the correct materials to make a stellar fighter and an engine of 1800 hp V-12 with a 2 stage super to go with it. If so, it could've been a real screamer. By changing to the big Radial, it saved itself.

@deanfirnatine7814 2 года назад

Nice looking plane despite its issues

@turtlewolfpack6061 2 года назад

Cool.

@pbasswil 2 года назад

Well, it's a pleasant looking crate - in fact, most WWII Soviet fighters were easy on the eyes.

@brothergrimaldus3836 2 года назад

Well yeah!!! Look at the size of the vertical stabilizer!!!! It's too small!!! Of course it's going to go into a spin.

@jaydeister9305 5 месяцев назад

@radosaworman7628 5 месяцев назад

You forgot to mention that delta plywood was never produced in soviet union, which greatly contributed to loss of performance as soon as war started.

@polakrodak8538 2 года назад

hey m8 can you please make a video on the PZL 37

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Hey there. I would love to cover Polish fighters and bombers. There is a slight issue, I use a lot of War Thunder models in my videos, and unfortunately, Poland is not represented in the game yet. But I will look into an alternative. Than you for the suggestion!

@Easy-Eight 2 года назад

How would the LaGG-3 stack up against the Hurricane or the P-40? On Paper the P-39 didn't look as good as the LaGG-3 but the Soviet pilots loved the P-39. The P-39 had superior windows for visibility, a very good gun sight, a radio system, the pilots loved the P-39's logical cockpit with allied comforts, there was a "relief tube" (really nice to have), and pilots loved the tricycle landing gear, no aircraft trying to kill you in a ground loop.

@tastethecock5203 2 года назад

P-39 had better maximum speed, and most importantly - radio equipment, better diving speed and better G tolerance for the airframe.

@moefares834 Год назад

i have always wondered about how the soviets fired their aircraft armaments was it electrical or pneimatic?

@jozefibaraki9099 Год назад

Wasnt this a first serial composite plane ?

@tattoojack1969 2 года назад

It was a gorgeous aircraft regardless of its faults.

@elijahfromdoost6736 2 года назад

LaGG had such poor performance first of all because off poor quality of serial produced planes, not because of design. First reason - materials. So called 'delta-drevesina" was actually a bakelite plywood. Generally it was a sort of composite material - cellulose fibre (plywood) filled under pressure with synthetic resin (bakelite) It has nothing in common with "normal" plywood. Difference in performance was like between fiberglass and carbon, for example. After the war started manufacturers faced with dramatic shortage in bakelite and delta-drevesina as well. To maintain the desired level of airframe strength manufacturers were forced to make airframe elements and sheathing more massive as they were made of common wood. So the power/mass balance of serial produced LaGGs worsened dramaticaly in comparison with prototypes. Second reason - quality of finishing. Use of 'delta-drevesina" or even common plywood allowed to create very very smooth seamless sheathing surface of the plane. That is greatly improved aerodynamic quality of the plane (the most famous proofhing example - british Mosquito's) But on serial produced LaGGs this material advantage was not used - sheathing surface staid rude and unpolished. Thats why the already overweighted plane became even slower. As a native russian speaker let me make some notes on prounounsation. LaGG - pronounced "Lugg" Lavochkin - pronounced "lUvochkeen" (accent on the first syllable) I-16 - "ee-16" Thats all. Thank you for the video.

@lupodimontenero661 2 года назад

Every nation involved in WW II had aircraft in service that they would have gladly done without, Soviet pilots called the LaGG3 "guaranteed lacquered coffin" - лакированный гарантированный гроб (wiki) Pilot Viktor M. Sinaisky recalled: "The LaGG-3 was a bad customer! Preparing it for flight took more time than other aircraft. All cylinders had to be synchronized: God forbid I would vary the gas distribution! There was severely It was forbidden to touch the engines! But there were constant problems with its liquid-cooled engine: especially in winter, as we had no antifreeze. So, as you could not keep the engine running all night, you had to pour boiling water into the cooling system in the early morning. Also the pilots did not like flying this plane, an ugly beast with a low-powered M-105 engine. We eventually got used to it, but even so we suffered serious losses, heavier than those recorded flying the I -16. " This said by pilots who have been able to make the most of an aircraft like the Bell P39 Airacobra, makes us think

@VonRammsteyn Год назад

I love the LaGG 3! But it was a poor Quality fighter... It was the cause of the others engineers to move apart from the design team and that's why later models were called La and not LaGG... One thing i remember... That resin had the property of make the plane unable of rot. Even in the hard weather of the soviet union...

@andrzejpl9897 Год назад

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@lesrush6298 2 года назад

It looks like a spitfire

@MiKeMiDNiTe-77 2 года назад

To put it bluntly where would the VVS be then without the LaGGs...in deep trouble that's where...there weren't enough Yaks to win the war or to even stall the Germans.

@panzerkamf1237 2 года назад

I loved this thing in warthunder despite being out matched by everything else

@Cybernaut76 Год назад

Lavochkin? Gorbunov? Gudkov? That makes a total of THREE "cooks". "The more there are cooks, the worse the soup" -Finnish folks proverb.

@buckwheatINtheCity Год назад

It was no worse than the P39. It was an important stepping stone.

@jaymorris3468 2 года назад

Looks like a cross between a Hurricane and Spitfire, I wonder what it would have been like with a Merlin Engine installed..

@jimdavis8391 2 года назад

The Gopnik of WW2 fighters :D

@Arthion 2 года назад

I feel a bit sorry for Lavochkin and company, they did the best they could with the resources they had available.

@generalbub. 2 дня назад

watching this while flying lagg-3 in war thunder 😂

@arcadiologanoff5164 2 года назад

Делта and древесина it was One of the first composite on the world unfortunately lack of proper wood and proper made glue had made Lagg 3 funeral with guarantee...

@peterp8911 2 года назад

Looks suspiciously like a British Spitfire Mk I

@dianapuskina3448 2 года назад

Ofcourse it is. British are famous for copying everything they can.

@Horesmi 2 года назад

Me starting the IL-2 campaign: "I think I know most of the controls, this doesn't sound so difficult. So what is the starting plane? LaGG-3? Never heard of it. Well, they wouldn't give a hard plane at the start of the game, right?" *crashes left wing into the runway*

@nikonmark37814 2 года назад

The Luftwaffe's Bf-109 and Fw-190's loved shooting the Lagg-3 down! In no way were they superior to the Luftwaffe's fighters!

@patrickmichaelspencecooler4768 2 года назад

He never said they were. That said, a good experienced veteran pilot in a LaGG-3 would outclass a green freshly trained novice in a Bf-109 F.

@McLarenMercedes 2 года назад

Mark Stephan Why are you stating something as if you're playing games on your game console? Worse you sound like one of those infantile wehraboos who go gaga over anything Wehrmacht.

@miquelescribanoivars5049 2 года назад

Not good enough to survive against the combined efforts of the Allies late in the war, though.

@dianapuskina3448 2 года назад

You know they loose a war right?

@francescononefrancese617 2 года назад

Do macchi 202

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Will do for sure.

@francescononefrancese617 2 года назад

@@AllthingsWW2 thanks

@RasPutintheGreat 2 года назад

Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub pilot of LA5 downed two mustangs in Berlin in 1945.

@jaybarua7095 2 года назад

It was a jury rigged emergency defence against superior fighters and it did its part acceptably if not very well. End result, it helped Russian aviation design and led to the La-5 which was an excellent fighter. .