Major Soviet Planes of WW2 

I am so happy that i am not the only one who finds these topics interesting

Lavanovich? Do you mean Lavochkin. Also, your information on the lagg is flaud, the lagg was made out of many layers of compressed wood covering each layer was a chemical extract, making the compress very very hard, but heavy (more of a plastic than wood), this however made the plane very sturdy and almost immune to flames, the compress didn't catch fire. The main reason why the lagg was dicontinued were the motors, which were used for yaks(that are overall better than laggs in manouverability, but lack the protection of the lagg).Laggs were pretty good planes, the finnish army captured some of them and considered them to be very modern and efficent planes, painting blue swastikas on them and making them their own. The main reason why the la-5 were great is because, there wasn't any competition between the yak's and the la's, different motors means twice as fast of the production, considering the two were astonashing planes that easily matched the 109's and 190's, it was a great deal for the soviets. edit: but the information on everything else was on point(I think), not disencouraging you, great job overall, just make sure you have the right information.

The I-16 was an amazing plane when it was built in the early 1930s, and even at the start of WWII its four rifle calibre machine guns were ShKAS machine guns that fired at 1,800 rounds per minute each, which is triple the rate of fire of the British 303 machine guns used in their fighters at the start of the war. The four ShKAS machine guns could fire more bullets per minute than 12 British 303 machine guns. More importantly some versions of the I-16 were armed with 20mm cannon which were rather more effective against air and ground targets than any machinegun including the 50 cals of the American fighters. The Americans used HMGs because their cannon were not reliable, not because they were better. The LaGG-3 had an inline piston engine. It was later models like the La-5FN and La-7 that used radial engines and were excellent fighters, every bit as good as anything the Germans had. The allied pilots with the highest scores flew Soviet planes. Being made of wood made the planes easier to damage, but also much easier to repair and support near a front line. The BF-109 was better than the I-16 because like the Hurricane the I-16 was obsolete when the war started, though of course the I-16 was rather more obsolete than the Hurricane was at that time. The Soviets ended the war with MiG-9s and within a few years had the MiG-15 which was superior to anything the Germans were working on.

enjoyed the video a lot but the music is annoying and too loud

Nice video and fit exactly what I was searching for. I would like to use a 35 second clip from this video in one of my videos 0:42 to 1:17. I would like to ask for your permission to do this. Thanks

Anyone know where I can find the vid of an old ww2 soviet pilot reuniting with his plane? (As best as I can remember I think the plane was an IL2)

The Polikarpov I-16 did NOT have 4 wing mounted guns. Early models up to the type 16, had 2 guns in the cowling, above the engine and 2 More in the wings... sometimes. Later models (Type 18 to 28), changed the wing machine guns for 23mm cannon. Do some actual research.... your "facts" on the Lagg 3 are also incorrect. The subtypes of that Also had varying weapons fits, and usually only 2 or 3 guns ir cannon.

That's pretty thin.

The correct way to pronounce it is IL-YOO-SHIN. There is no "a" there.

LOVANOVICH!? WHAT THE? come on brother. it's a LOVOCHKIN, lol, not a LOVANOVICH:) WW2's greatest Allied Fighter Ace flew one of these planes, get the name of it right, it's too important. And the name of the Ace is KOZHEDUB, not Kodjin!

Make more videos dude.

"Sir the Aircraft need updating!" ...so you've chosen death

You forgot the Yak 9. It was flown by a free french squadron who also had experience with Spitfires and Mustangs and declared the Yak 9 superior to both. The Luftwaffe issued an order to NOT engage Yak 9 at all. One Soviet squadron killed 27 FW 190 and one Bf 109 for the loss of two Yak 9.

At 2:05 the description says bg109F , the aircraft in the picture is b109E. Nice video anyway.😊

You should keep making videos. You'll get more subs soon.

a little late to the party, but what about Yak-1? It was a worthy opponent for the Bf-109 at the start of the war, and numbered quiet a few planes

Omg thank you so much I wanted to know more about ussr aviation And info on that is hard

Would someone explain to me just why YT content providers add "music" racket such as in this video, to their videos? It does nothing but distraction and irritation? This must be clear to the providers, yet they do it anyway. Why?? Why o why??

"radial liquid cooled engine" ? This guy makes the AI narrators sound truly intelligenr

What did you say about the La-5 and La-7? You better go study the wiki entry again.

Not every machine gun are in the wings

I just tuned in to get some background for my old DOS game, Panzer General. Thanks for posting this video

3:04 Ivan Kozhedub, not Ivan Kojo :v

The Polikarpov was used in the Spanish Civil War.

Lagg-3 construction of wood did not make it vulnerable to enemy fire, it made it tough and resilient. Added to this was a simple but effective fire suppressant system, that made the Lagg very tough to bring down. The wood construction made it HEAVY and therefore underpowered, and was very hard for novice pilots to handle.

Why the annoying music ? Gets in the way of your narration !!👺

Some interesting content, but the volume of the background music is high, and a bit distracting, ^oo^

Omg kill the music sir

But you still earned my sub

The I16 was shown to be outclassed during the Spanish civil war in 1936!

Stuka is best airplane in ww2.Looking at all the features.

How about German Aircrafts? Supervisor to both U.S. and U.K. aircrafts