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MiG-3 - The Soviet Fighter Few Could Tame

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 was a controversial Second World War Soviet fighter. Some loved it, some hated it. Join us for a look at this very symbolic fighter.
0:04 History
3:56 Strengths
4:36 Weaknesses
5:08 Variants
6:30 Head to Head
8:01 Notable Pilots
9:52 Conclusion
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@Ypog_UA 2 года назад

Ironically, playing MiG-3 in computer simulators showed me the exact same conclusion. When I was new to those games I immediately hated the plane. Everyone could turn around me and even if I got a shot on someone, it would do almost no damage. Later, I came back to it and now I really love it. I don't stick around low altitudes dogfighting like before and I use its speed to intercept and outrun most of the enemies. I especially like the BK variant, even though it adds weight the firepower is worth it in my opinion. It really is like a stallion.

@bigblue6917 2 года назад

Same tactics used against the Japanese Zero. Fight to your strengths not theirs.

@ccv1929 2 года назад

Exactly, if a plane is outclassed in dogfights, simply do not make dogfights, make use of your energy to boom and zoom.

@jotabe1984 2 года назад

seems legit. In my experience in WT the Mig3 will shine chasing those pesky high altittude bombers. Aim for the engines since the lack of 20mm cannon is very punishing to firepower. Against enemy fighters dive attack and climb is the only doable tactic since that plane will get outturned by about every fighter in the game. Do not carry any Air to Ground payload, that won't work

@farazsid4270 2 года назад

Armour Piercing Bullets used for ground attack coupled with rapid firing 12.7mm wing mounted guns in BK variant make it lethal fighter specially in Dive and frontal head on attacks weather it be croasair mustangs or spitfires. You just have to play on your own terms.

@LeonelEBD 2 года назад

@John Martlew yet i was clapping everyone in a zero in the times of cfs2 ...

@davidherbst 2 года назад

Regardless of performance or record, the MiG-3 was one of the best looking fighters of WWII.

@TheKitMurkit 2 года назад

@jojomaster7675 2 года назад

yes

@23gt17 2 года назад

Another yes vote here. It is SLEEK!

@franciscohughes1757 2 года назад

Eh, spitfire matches, if not better

@jojomaster7675 2 года назад

@@franciscohughes1757 respectfully disagree

@jonathanl1276 2 года назад

The MiG-3's far back cockpit location and sharp shape looks like some of today's racing planes.

@Crashed131963 2 года назад

It sure looked good.

@andrzejfilip4913 2 года назад

Stalin made the speed the only factor by which the new fighter plane was to be determined. All design teams fosued on that part, so Jak-1 and ŁAAG-3 were all designed this way...

@jarikinnunen1718 2 года назад

@@andrzejfilip4913 Anyone can go fast. Few can turn and stopping properly.

@andrzejfilip4913 2 года назад

@@jarikinnunen1718 no not really. Going fast is very hard on a piston engine fighter. Turing is easy, as any WW1 fighter could outturn any WW2 fighter. My point was the speed as the only tactical requirement was stupid and hence the failure of Mig-1.

@guaporeturns9472 2 года назад

@@andrzejfilip4913 Not really..use tactics that capitalize on your speed advantage and it’s not stupid. P-51s and P-47s were not nearly as maneuverable as Bf 109s , Fw 190s and A6M2s but shot down plenty of them.. just don’t get into a turning fight. Worked well. Hellcat too

@Skeeter51244 2 года назад

Training and tactics can be the key. After all, it took the Royal Navy to teach us how to land as Corsair on a carrier.

@spanishpeaches2930 2 года назад

It took the greatest test pilot of them all Eric " winkle" Brown.

@bassface8580 2 года назад

The Corsair was so god damn legendary. Love it and the story of the black sheep squadron

@ih302 2 года назад

@@spanishpeaches2930 Old Winkle was a legend..

@patchouliknowledge4455 2 года назад

@@bassface8580 Add how beautiful and unique it looks, and you've got yourself a hell of a memorable plane

@bassface8580 2 года назад

@@patchouliknowledge4455 yeh and the sound of the things. Werent they one of the fastest planes of the war aswell?

@SteeveeDan 2 года назад

The honesty of this video is very admirable.

@lifuranph.d.9440 2 года назад

Da.!.

@davidbeattie4294 2 года назад

The key is to understand where your aircraft is superior and to develop tactics to maximize those advantages. Its also essential to understand your opponents strengths and weaknesses so you can avoid fighting where he has a major advantage.

@tricosteryl 2 года назад

Unfortunately for the Mig3 pilots, the ennemi was not present at altitudes the Mig was designed for (hi altiude). They had no choice but to fight where the Mig was at a disadvantage.

@spanishpeaches2930 2 года назад

I love the way the cockpit was so far back. Good looking plane.

@bassmith448bassist5 2 года назад

Reminiscent of the Corsair.

@spanishpeaches2930 2 года назад

@@bassmith448bassist5 Except the Corsair had all the good looks of a crop duster.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Good looking indeed!

@MrDino1953 2 года назад

Forward vision during take-off and landing must have been quite terrible. Good looks do not always translate to good function.

@Hibernicus1968 2 года назад

@@MrDino1953 I doubt it was any more of an issue for the MiG-3 than it was for the Corsair, and could have been compensated for the same way. Having the cockpit placed so far back certainly didn't stop the Corsair from being one of the most effective US fighters of the war.

@bokiboki1119 2 года назад

I read Pokryshkin's biography when I was a kid. I remember him saying you need to fly the Mig-3 not according to the training manual and he also liked using the rockets.

@MaksimSF 2 года назад

Pokryshkin was a mythical pilot created by a soviet propaganda... Just like Kalashnikov has nothing to do with AK-47, AK was designed by captured Hugo Schmeisser...

@dianapuskina3448 2 года назад

Ak was invented by Taras Grygorovitch Shevchenko real Ukrainian patriot and soviets was forced by nkvd to capture hugo shmeiser to hide the real true. Soviets are cunning

@vasjaforutube1 Год назад

@@MaksimSF I read a biography of one of junior pilots of his squadron. Day-to-day life, routine, missions, deaths of comrades. Not that mythical.

@most_sane_piano_enthusiast Год назад

@@MaksimSF Kalashnikov's design incorporated elements from various successful firearms, such as the M1 Garand's rotating bolt, the StG 44's overall form factor, the Remington Model 8's safety lever/selector switch, and the ribbed StG magazines for the removable magazines.

@maxkuz334 Год назад

@@most_sane_piano_enthusiast As most firearm designers do. In factm iirc the AR-15 platform has more comonalities with the STG than the AK platform.

@Warmaker01 2 года назад

When a war isn't going well, training tends to suffer as resources, time aren't given as much as it should have. Imperial Japanese Navy aviators had tough requirements, standards before and early in WWII. But later in the war, come 1943 and beyond, the replacements didn't have that luxury, especially 1944-45. The Luftwaffe was suffering very heavy losses come 1943. Fighting in the Eastern Front and Mediterranean saw them eat heavy losses, particularly trying to save Axis forces in Tunisia and the devastating follow up for Sicily. The Luftwaffe was never the same after Tunisia and Sicily with all their losses. As what happened with Japanese military aviation, time and resources for new pilot training was a luxury that could hardly be afforded. Soviets early on with all the high losses at the onset of Operation Barbarossa probably were scrambling for new pilots. Wouldn't surprise me if their training wasn't sufficient enough until the war situation got better. For an air force in WWII to maintain good training throughout the conflict, that was an amazing luxury.

@bartacomuskidd775 2 года назад

They executed the board.. under the excuse of Social Justice. Every problem Russia had was based around their type of government.

@roroliaoliao 2 года назад

By the time in 1945s, Soviet pilots gets to free hunt the Germans. This is how some Soviet Aces rack up the scores despite having less kills in 1943-9144.

@cosmoray9750 9 месяцев назад

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@daenery2471 4 месяца назад

This. Many people think allied planes were better. They weren't. Planes were pretty much equal on all sides (except Italy hehe), but the axis shortages and allies learning to use squad tactics won the war

@mukhumor 2 года назад

It's easy to design a product when you have limitless funds and time. Designing a competitive fighter plane during a war is another story. They did the best they could. Respect to the young men who put their lives into those experimental machines.

@External2737 2 года назад

Designing planes during purges is hard. The lead designer of the I-16 was only demoted and contributed heavily to the Mig-1 design. Too many Soviet planes were designed in the Gulags. The Mig-3 had the the huge Moscow factory which made it critical at the battle of Moscow. If its factory had been captured, unstead of a primary defense on THE front, we wouldn't talk about the Mig-3. That factory went to IL-2s as soon as fighters were not critically short (which, ironically, led to a fighter shortage).

@cosmoray9750 2 года назад

No Uyghur ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-78s7yP2BdF0.html

@calamityjane9826 2 года назад

@@External2737 1) planes were not designed in gulags, because they (or rather some of them) were designed in so called sharashkas - facilities with all the necessary equipment, materials and surveillance meant to make sure that designers are doing their assigned jobs instead of writing reports on each other which they grew so fond of. 2) planes could not be designed in gulagS because the only gulag (ГУЛаг - гла́вное управле́ние лагере́й - chief administration of the camps) was located in Moscow and was meant for prison camp management, not for plane design.

@External2737 2 года назад

@@calamityjane9826 You should read the history of the Pe-2. Some of those facilities were in nicer gulags, but they were still gulags. It is a facinating history.

@calamityjane9826 2 года назад

@@External2737 as I said, there was only one gulag in Moscow. And it was a bureau, not a camp. Sharashkas were no camps either. They could be considered a sort of prison though, because the staff were not allowed to leave until the job is done.

@jaybarua7095 2 года назад

Reminds one of the WW1 Sopwith Camel which was also a difficult plane to master but once mastered and used properly, was a deadly opponent.

@blackbaron2572 2 года назад

Overall, the camel seems to have been much more successy

@alwayscensored6871 2 года назад

These deserve respect as the designs that followed kept getting better. I love those piston Yaks n Migs

@lunokhod3937 2 года назад

really like the layout of the video. gives interesting and cruicial information quickly and in detail without dragging. could watch vids like this on any and all aircraft and i likely wouldnt get bored.

@bogstrider0009 2 года назад

Great work on the video! The presentation was very engaging. Love to see a video on the La-5 or Lagg-3 sometime in the future.

@ssnydess6787 2 года назад

Thank you for the excellent analysis! This shows that just because an aircraft is beautiful, it may have problems. It is also interesting to learn that the Soviet Army, like the American Army was slow to adopt tactics specific for the weapons platform and theatre specific adversaries...excellent!

@schaerffenberg 2 года назад

"... just because an aircraft is beautiful, it may have problems." Just like a woman.

@louisavondart9178 2 года назад

@@schaerffenberg ...just like a man to say something like that.

@saxonforge 2 года назад

One of my favorite models for attacking German bombers on IL2. I use the cannon armed version and it really works for me.

@FeiHuWarhawk 2 года назад

Early Yak1 was a heavy plane doggy plane at first. Designers lightened it and got a little more HP. Became a very good fighter.

@alexanderyankovsky563 2 года назад

A very good summary. I would add that this aircraft was fairly successfully deployed in the naval aviation and saw combat well into 1944 (in the Black Sea fleet). There was a squadron of MiG-3s in the Northern Fleet as well, and I believe Sorokin (famous Soviet ace who lost his legs but continued to fly) shot down Bf-110 in MiG-3 just a few weeks after the war started. In the naval units, they were used mostly as interceptors against German bombers.

@hobbyhermit66 2 года назад

Mig 3 was nice looking. I hadn't heard of it's performance before.

@hamletksquid2702 2 года назад

Years ago, I built an R/C MiG 3 by modifying a Me109 kit, and I used the 1941 white and red color scheme shown at the beginning of this vid. It's so typically Soviet. Paint it white so it blends in with snow, then paint red stars and arrows on it so it looks flashy when it's shown off flying over parades and such. I didn't know anything about its performance - I just thought it was a good-looking plane.

@gryfandjane 2 года назад

Fascinating information, masterfully presented. Thank you!

@markam306 2 года назад

Nice video, I like your style.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@Duececoupe 2 года назад

Love the looks of the MiG-3, it looks like a prewar racer! Need to get a couple in 1/32.... Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow, Scotland....🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻

@giggling_boatswain 2 года назад

Agree. Aerodynamics are pleasing to the eye today. Perfect body lines.

@WeeWeeJumbo 2 года назад

As others have mentioned, it’s just a great presentation. Excellent video

@SJstackinbodys 2 года назад

Its not a russian machine unless some one is executed over foggy charges with shoddy proof

@capoamaral 2 года назад

Definitely!

@zingerman1276 2 года назад

BLYAT!

@pinngg6907 2 года назад

Definitely

@cripplehawk 2 года назад

When I play IL-2 Great battle series. I try to avoid dogfighting when flying this bird. I basically "Boom and Zoom" and try to climb out if clear (Or turn and dive if a BF109 is on my 6). But taking off and landing this thing is tricky. It's almost like a disobedient stallion.

@kevinmcdonald6446 2 года назад

Well done.

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@Wolfpack345 2 года назад

Awesome overview for a fascinating aircraft!

@Lowkeh 2 года назад

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@nzsaltflatsracer8054 2 года назад

Being an aircraft designer in Russia was a risky job, you fail, you die as an enemy of the state.

@kinglear5952 2 года назад

Sensible policy i.m.o. More widely applied it would have saved the 1 trillion wasted on the F-35

@bigblue6917 2 года назад

At the point many if not most designers and engineers were locked up in one of the Gulags as a matter of course.

@kinglear5952 2 года назад

@@bigblue6917 I believe Tupolev did a bit of stir time for being a plane designer.

@ccv1929 2 года назад

Has anything to do with the video? Just asking

@nzsaltflatsracer8054 2 года назад

@@ccv1929 Yes, it's in the video.

@j.dragon651 2 года назад

It is a good looking plane.

@ThePilot4ever 2 года назад

Production also ended because the engines were needed for the on demand IL-2 Sturmovik planes

@spritninja883 Год назад

Bro used War Thunder models

@FunnyF0X3 2 месяца назад

Late, but it's better than looking at monochrome pictures that's over 80 years old...

@anxiousseal556 Год назад

At 5:05 I dreamed that exact part of your video for some reason and now I kinda freak out lol I never watched this before nice video btw

@redtobertshateshandles 2 года назад

The designer was rewarded with execution. Nice work.

@josephstabile9154 2 года назад

Thanks for a very interesting & informative video. At Barbarosa's outset, one was forced to "run what you brung", and considering this, the MiG-3 was significantly better than what many of Germany's opponents had with which to fight. U.S.'s P-40, for example, was deficient in important aspects vis-a-vis 1st line axis fighters. I think Mig's "deal bteaking" limitation was likely its demand of very high pilot experience/skill--a nearly intolerable demand at that period of VVS proficiency.

@jamesbugbee6812 2 года назад

My favorite Soviet prop fighter; speed & altitude can be traded for other values, timing was crucial, firepower could be partly made up in numbers &, or course, training. She looked pretty slick, too, & one of her close relatives was beautiful.

@neutronalchemist3241 2 года назад

From a design standpoint, the Mig-3 only had a real deficiency, The tailplanes were too close to the main wing (a thing it borrowed from '30s racers, that didn't need to be agile) It's enough to compare the shape of the Mig-3 to that of the Yak-1 to see the difference. The rest of the defects were easy fix. It was a high-quote long-range interceptor put on a scenario were all the clashes were low to medium altitude and range had no importance, because the tactic was for the aircrafts to take off immediately behind the first line, to achieve local air superiority, but the low level performances increased greatly using the plug&play Mikulin AM38 engine (that of the Il-2, optimised for low level performances) and, with the two ShVAK 20mm gun, it was better armed than the contemporaries Bf109. Both modifications were so easy that they were made on the field also.

@elisekehle8520 2 года назад

so stoked to see them in "The Pilot"!

@christopherbatty3837 2 года назад

Molodets ! Excellent and balanced presentation ✈ Primary pilot problems - recall POST-WWII Luftwaffe STARFIGHTER fatalities & the primary causes: Mig is short coupled, high wing taper ratio: I agree completely about riding a stallion analogy. PROPERLY TRAINED, the combat results and reduction of accidents would have been startling - recalling some 1/3 BF109 were lost in ground accidents - pilot inability + undercarriage design flaw (typical of ME designs). Noting also, transition of typical RAF fighter jok of docile, slow biplanes & initial poor performance in Spitfire - several noted the "quanta leap" as a bit of a shock. Guns: not only one undergunned - look at extraordinary foolishness of USA early Tomahawk/Kittyhawk armament fit IN FULL KNOWLEDGE of German/British typical fit. *For its time, power output remarkable. *BF109F - certainly THE formidable stage of 109 genesis ...not at all like the Emil. *Combat altitude: did ANYONE "get it right" regarding the variety of combat altitudes which only arose as battle theatres grew ? Very respectable high altitude performance - not surprised about loss of control @ highest altitude - no pressurised cabin: dangerous/fatal physiological impairment + impaired aerodynamics @ such density altitudes.

@carsten9168 2 года назад

Soviet air ace Aleksander Pokryshkin (3 times 'Hero of the Soviet Union') did say that the MiG-3 was like a stallion. Took a considerable time to master it but once you know it, you will ride like the wind !

@velonico 2 года назад

The "Arrow" Paint job seen at 1:30 is Striking!

@OneHitWonder383 2 года назад

So, like all fighter pilots worldwide, Pokryshkin was honest in his assessment of every aircraft he flew. As much as it helps to have a good plane, there is no substitute for pilot skill. His achievements in the P-39, along with him surviving the war, prove that skill.

@user-gn6cf8uc8d 2 года назад

who knows more about pokryshkin, knows that its difficult to find out exact number of his victories. Yes he wrote about mig as a stallion in his memories and also he described that he maybe foght more soviet machinery than the enemy pilots. He didnt care about his kills, some records have been lost during retreat (in my opinion "lost" by his foes in red army), more than kills he valued fact that he never lost his wingman

@jamesbottger5894 2 года назад

I'm surprised no one has posted something about how P-51 pilots are lucky they didn't have to fight this plane during the war because they would've gotten waxed...I swear some people would claim the Buffalo Brewster would outperform the Mustang...

@Crashed131963 2 года назад

Stalin- "We have a design flaw did you fix it ?" Russia Pee ons - " Yes we executed the plane designer."

@comesahorseman 2 года назад

Cancel culture.

@destroyerarmor2846 2 года назад

@@comesahorseman cancel and delete

@zelfit 2 года назад

They actually executed the man responsible for discovering these flaws.

@aaronmatthews4612 2 года назад

Had a model of a mig 3 30 years ago when I was a kid love the look of this fighter.

@claudiogontijo1986 2 года назад

The MIG-3 was designed especially for high-altitude combat, as the Soviets did not know what kind of air war they would have to fight against Germany. Stalin suspended production of the MIG due to the fact that it used the same engine as the IIlyushin Il-2 Sturmovik.

@BrockvsTV 2 года назад

thank you, I really enjoyed the video. Especially how well laid out it was

@kkteutsch6416 2 года назад

A lot of comtemporary allied - american made aircrafts had this issues too and a example is the P39 Airacobra that american pilots refused to fly it and they were sent lend lease to soviets, that obtained some success with it...

@VonRammsteyn Год назад

For me, MIG-3 was the most beautiful soviet fighter of ww2

@KillerPro1001 2 года назад

Хороший и профессиональный обзор. Ничего лишнего. Спасибо автору!

@davidjohnston800 2 года назад

Always loved the MIG 3. I have model to this day. I hope you can do a video on the P 39. It was also not well thought of but in the hands on that Soviet Union Ace it performed well in his good Pilot's hands.

@MDzmitry 2 года назад

To be a little more precise, "the soviet ace" is Alexander Pokryshkin, who is often described to be the one who adapted high-speed area patrols and altitude ranging of pairs. Actually, most soviet P-39 aces come from the same unit as Pokryshkin, because they were the first to adapt his strategies and experience them in battles. But the P-39 was handled more or less fine by most soviet pilots because they were trained in I-16 - a fighter as unstable as an Aircobra. "If you learn how to handle I-16, you'll fly even on a broom"

@soapycactuses9281 Год назад

@@MDzmitry Do you know something about Kozhedub?(he was the first leading ace while Pokryshkin was 2nd) I only know that he flew first in a I153 and then mostly on a la 5/fn later on the La7 and fought in stalingrad a lot.

@MDzmitry Год назад

@@soapycactuses9281 Haven't been interested in Kozhedub to be honest, since he came to the frontline only in 1943 and flew for quite a while in a regiment dedicated to "free hunt", unlike Pokryshkin. So shortly speaking, he had near ideal conditions for scoring victories. And a small correction: Kozhedub didn't fight above Stalingrad, his career started at Kursk.

@soapycactuses9281 Год назад

@@MDzmitry ah thank you

@JIMIIXTLAN 2 года назад

Another very good well researched video on a neglected plane. I am hoping in the future you will produce videos on soviet tanks which I personally am a big fan of.

@rwlewko 2 года назад

I loved your presentation. I found it balanced and objective. Thank you. Have you any plans to cover the Polikarpov I-16? The I-16 has the distinction of being one of the first monoplane, retractable gear fighters.

@radosaworman7628 2 года назад

Very advanced yet so awful. And certainly the worst of early monoplane fighters with retractable gear. Bad aircraft are so fascinating.

@TheArcticFoxxo 2 года назад

@@radosaworman7628 kite go brrrrr

@danieleyre8913 5 месяцев назад

@@radosaworman7628 At least it had retractable landing gear, look at the Boeing P-26! Remember the thing was first produced in 1933 in a nation with little manufacturing technology.

@radosaworman7628 5 месяцев назад

@@danieleyre8913 and how did that help it? Not much. The plane it was built to defeat (p.11c) could outgun outclimb and outturn it with no successful reversals on its record. Ki-27 additionally had better energy retention turn and climb and killed them by the dozens. Plane built to stupid doctrine, with overgrown engine (both of mentioned planes had 300cc less than it) and ridiculous training regime. The best thing about it was that it gave russians experience with building said landing gear which is a thing worth mentioning. It's failure gave birth to mig-1 and mig-3 witch where only reasonable plane in early Barbarossa on soviet side which ofc where hampered by soviet doctrine.

@danieleyre8913 5 месяцев назад

@@radosaworman7628 What on earth are you guffing about? The Soviets didn’t care about Poland, your idea that it was designed to especially defeat the PZL 11c is laughable. And also chronologically challenged. When introduced to the Spanish civil war; the I-16 made an immediate impact. The Heinkel and FIAT biplanes were absolutely hapless against it. Its success was a factor in the Luftwaffe hurrying its own monoplane fighter programme and updating their tactics. The aircraft also made impact when acquired by nationalist China, ending the air superiority the Japanese enjoyed. Yes the I-16 fared not very well in Soviet hands during the battle of Kolkin Gol. Up against far more experienced Japanese army pilots who were flying an aircraft 4 years younger it’s neither surprising nor condemning of the I-16. And the results were not entirely negative; the end result was the Japanese army mistakenly concluding that manoeuvrability was more important than velocity and energy-retention and that “turn-fight” tactics were superior to the more correct & advanced “hit-and-run” tactics of the Soviets, which would have bad consequences for the Japanese army Air Force from late 1942. To be frank; your negative appraisal of the I-16 sounds warped by bias & prejudice and includes your own fantasies and facts cherry-picked to support a sought conclusion. The I-16 may have been far from perfect but it was still an amazing and evolutionary design. And were it not for the rotten politics and influence of Joseph Stalin himself in the Soviet air ministry; it could have been the spawn for an amazing family of fighters including the I-180 & I-185.

@AlteredCarbons Год назад

i love how like, War thunder and to a lesser extent the World of series has sparked so man youtuber channels on regarding the history of war machines. i love the little details people pull out and pop up and im just like "oh... interested. didn't know that"

@gliderfs621 2 года назад

The Mig 3 mishaps is the perfect example of a very good plane is nothing without a very good pilot. My favorite plane in War Thunder, very deadly when you understand it’s strengths.

@abdulabdanahib9617 2 года назад

Bf-109F-1 and F-2 much better

@patreidcocolditzcastle632 Год назад

really loving your channel...great work

@dazzle4416 11 месяцев назад

i would say this is a mythical aircraft that could only be tamed by the most respectful and talented pilots that understood its capabilities and its weaknesses but using its weaknesses as a unique use of the aircraft, an amazing aircraft and Highley underrated, the flaw was lack of training and the time of the war that was upon them gave them little time to train pilots to use the aircraft correctly. the fact that it was a difficult plane to use ,and yet the notable few that could puts them above ace in my opinion. we have to also note that the BF109 also had weaknesses.

@edwardpate6128 2 года назад

Good video but not sure where you got your speed number for the P-40E from. It was much higher than that at 360 mph.

@petersnow531 2 года назад

Adding 300mm to the fuselage length would have cured a lot of instability issues.

@jonnybeck6723 2 года назад

Aaah but it looked like an ultimate racing plane (!)

@garyhooper1820 2 года назад

Designed for intercepting strategic bombing efforts it was of little use. As Germany only practiced this for a short time over Moscow. They suffered heavy losses doing so.

@bongodrumzz 2 года назад

Hmm interesting, yes I agree with the idea of pilot training or lack of, being a major issue, considering the Luftwaffe brought a wealth of knowledge going back to the Spanish civil war, and the slapping they received during the battle of Britain, however the biggest problem has always been, and still is, political interference from above, especially from amateurs with no real training or skill in this field. Cure those problems and the Mig-3 could have been quite a fighter to contend with, nice looking too.

@bigblue6917 2 года назад

The same can be said for those at the top of the military. It was Hitler who insisted on using the 50 mm gun for their tanks while it was those at the top of the German army who showed little interest in doing so.

@johnweerasinghe4139 2 года назад

The Soviets also got experience in the Spanish Civil War and actually gave tbe opposition a trashing by introducing the world's first monoplane, metal skin, retra ctable wheels and air to ground rockets. While the west was flying biplanes Nothing could beat it until the Germans introduced the Me 109. Of course the west won't dwell in this fact too much. Probably because they copied the concept ...hahaha.

@divyajnana 2 года назад

May have been unforgiving, but the looks were fabulous.

@georgekorres3531 2 года назад

Awesome video, subscribed!

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you and welcome!

@misterbacon4933 2 года назад

You can say whatever you want about the technical issues of the MIG-3, but... it's a beauty!!! I Love the shape of this plane. I have a rc model in the white camouflage. And I like to fly it!!!

@neutronalchemist3241 2 года назад

From a design standpoint, the Mig-3 only had a real deficiency, The tailplanes were too close to the main wing (a thing it borrowed from '30s racers, that didn't need to be agile) It's enough to compare the shape of the Mig-3 to that of the Yak-1 to see the difference. The rest of the defects were easy fix. It was a high-altitude long-range interceptor put on a scenario were all the clashes were low to medium altitude and range had no importance, because the tactic was for the aircrafts to take off immediately behind the first line, to achieve local air superiority, but the low altitude performances increased greatly using the plug&play Mikulin AM38 engine (that of the Il-2, optimised for low altitude performances) and, with the two ShVAK 20mm gun, it was better armed than the contemporaries Bf109. Both modifications were so easy that they were made on the field also.

@1joshjosh1 2 года назад

Good video!!! Good info.

@JosipRadnik1 2 года назад

Thank you for this interesting video. But I think you've got the max speed of the P-40E wrong, which should be somewhere around 580 kp/h, not 496 kp/h

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Hey there. Yes, it's probably on the low side. In my video about the P-40, I spent a lot of time around its maximum speed. I found that for the E version 538 kph was a more common and balanced value. I should have gone with that value for consistency's sake, but in this video I used all the speed values from the same source, to add some coherency to this specific table. I will add a note about this in the description. Thank you for your comment.

@PORRRIDGE_GUN 2 года назад

@@AllthingsWW2 But the Soviets ran it on lower octane fuel, not getting the best performance for the Allison Powerplant and they added some of their own equipment, which was heavier ISTRC.

@jjohnston326 2 года назад

It doesn't matter if you perform better in areas that aren't in the combat envelope. That is why the BF-109 was a better aircraft. That is why your general liked the American aerocobra, it had what we valued; performance balanced with firepower and pilot protection. That was more than the Germans of Japanese focused on. They focused only on performance and firepower.

@garypeatling7927 2 года назад

Result of a night of passion between spitfire and a mustang lovely

@trent847 Год назад

One of the most beautiful fighters of WW2. Yes it’s beauty ranks up there with the Spitfire or Mustang. It most likely would’ve had a more successful combat record if the Soviet pilots were better trained with their aircraft as well as using better tactics. It was a misused aircraft that had great potential.

@michaeltelson9798 2 года назад

Aerial combat was primarily at 15,000 feet or less on the Eastern Front. This was a reason for its problems. The F version of the BF 109 was considered the best version of that aircraft. The P-39 was good at low altitudes which fit this theater’s combat.

@mpetersen6 Год назад

Appearance wise it reminds me of the Curtiss XP-37. Which had the cockpit even farther back.

@davidbradley3227 2 года назад

I enjoyed this video and subscribed. Well done!

@OgamiItto70 2 года назад

Interesting video essay. Thanks.

@basiltaylor8910 Год назад

Artem Mikoyans Hot Rod is a classic Marmite Fighter, you loved or hated, and like Carol Shelby,s Cobra Roadster, a handful, a fighter not for the faint hearted. Artem took a leaf out of Reggie Mitchells book, designing the lightest airframe around the most powerful V-12 engine Mr Mikulin had available. Yes it looks like a pre war racer small wings, tail, cockpit set well back , long sleek nose, a tiny trolley castor tail wheel ,so taxiing the beast on nothing more than a rough cow pasture is fraught with difficulty. Its sheer unstableness is key to low altitude scrapping ,but most VVS pilots were conscripts with very little or no experience flying such a hot rod some weened on the Polikarpov Po-2 a wheezy rag wing biplane left over from the first world war. Poorly armed Artem,s hot rod stood little chance against a Wurger FW 190A, or Friederich BF 190F. There is one flyable Mig 3 powered by an Allison 1710 C-30, built from several wrecks retrieved from the steppe, and only the best warbird drivers get to fly it.

@GunnyKeith 2 года назад

WELL DONE. AMAZING JOB, THANKS

@ourshelties7649 2 года назад

One correction. the BF-109 had a 20mm cannon, not 15mm.

@_GODSFIGHTER 4 месяца назад

That was the F2 model. Others had the 20 mm

@TringmotionCoUk 2 года назад

surprised there was no photo recon model, sounds ideal

@tomortale2333 2 года назад

ahead for the times...higher altitude is everything cause its able to dive from way above an take out many enemys

@grumples1517 2 года назад

I'm really enjoying your videos! keep up the good work

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@anthonysantiago1999 2 года назад

Very good and informative videos.. keep up the good work..

@wa1ufo 2 года назад

This was a beautiful airplane and I applaud all the Red Airforce pilots who flew to save their country from the Nazis. Thanks for the video! I just suscribed to your excellent channel.

@johnhotz1400 2 года назад

Hot looking playing I also like how the cockpits way back on the fuselage. Pilots make a big difference James Doolittle did things in the b-25 nobody thought could be done.

@andyharman3022 2 года назад

Doolittle was a phenomenal pilot. He was the only pilot to win a race in the GeeBee. It killed all of its other pilots.

@hansthegermansoldier7550 2 года назад

I really like the cockpit configuration and the wings design

@jasonz7788 2 года назад

Great work Sir thank you

@AllthingsWW2 2 года назад

Thank you!

@hmong_keeb_kwm Год назад

In war thunder, it is best to use the Mig3 as a bomber interceptor and to go after high flying bombers, and intercept other aircraft by diving only and then climb back up as fast as possible. Never get into a turn fight, or you'll most like lose most of the time. If you use it to it's advantage you can be successful, but if you use it to it's disadvantage you'll go nuts in war thunder. In war thunder, every aircraft has its weak and strong point, and it's up to you as the pilots to find it out and play to its advantage.

@MRtucnakCZE Год назад

In War Thunder, it trades blows with more manouverable biplanes (which back then the Soviet pilots prefered, albeit being disasterously outclassed by Bf's performance), being faster, sleeker, more rigid and can handle high service ceiling, great for bomber-interception. It's weak armament is it's biggest con and pro, whilst being slightly worse than German counterpart, the ammunition pool is more than enough, unlike later Soviet planes, equiped with (almost always) only 20mm+ cannons. Back when it was 1.7 the standard variant (nowadays 2.3 regardless) could fly circles around the enemies, and if not turn, most certainly out-fly them in a straight line. Later iterations of the design (I-185/I-225) have remained uniform in how they handle and look, despite various changes to the engine/weapons combo. It's a dependable plane, that can and will rain hell, if used accordingly. Bf and Spitfire, head to head have much flatter learning curve and offer very much different feel to both operating the plane and dealing with enemy planes. A comparable plane, the LaGG-3-66, and LaGGs in general at least in my opinion, prepare the players for rather stingy tech tree experience, with limited ammo pool and/or dubious guns, combined with poor flying performance (overall). In ground RB, it's outclassed in every way and any CAS is a waste of energy, unless fitted with 20mm guns (but then again, YAKs perform way better). One of my favourite planes overall.

@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus 2 года назад

Looked fast even while standing still. Not entirely unlike the Reggiane 2005 to look at, if somewhat foreshortened.

@RaduB. 2 года назад

Hard to say something clear about the MiG-3 because of the bad press N. N. Polikarpov got from the Soviet authorities... I think it was a sound design and it had incredible performances for its time. The fact that it wasn't easy to fly was not a desirable feature during the war but I'm sure that in the good hands it was a useful tool. See the success of Pokryshkin. On the other hand, if the existing replica is close to the real thing, it could be that it was mainly difficult on the ground and at landing, otherwise being very maneuverable, as suggested by Vladimir Barsuk, one of its pilots (from min. 2:30). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_wTZjYGyl-4.html

@michaelvalenzuela2528 2 года назад

Great graphics and lots of information👍

@MarekKrassus53 8 месяцев назад

There are a few mistakes here. For example, the production of MiG-3s was not stopped due to their "inferior quality" compared to the BF-109. In 1941 it was the best Soviet fighter. Mainly because it was actually Polikarpov's "stolen" project. It was about the AM engine. Stalin wanted to have as many Il-2s as possible, and these used engines from the same manufacturer. Meanwhile, the USSR was already producing two other fighters (Yak-1 and LaGG-3). Therefore, Stalin ordered the MiG-3 to be abandoned. In addition, there was Yakovlev, who was Stalin's favorite and tried at all costs to become the new "king of fighters". Even though his plane was terrible... His opinion probably decided the fate of the MiG-3. LaGG-3 fighters almost had a similar ending. Fortunately, Lavochkin received (by accident) an M-82 engine, which he installed in his structure. The La-5 turned out to be a very good plane that met the spartan requirements of Soviet aviation. Very easy to fly, easy to maintain, fast at low altitude, good maneuverability. P.S. MiGi-3s have been used in Moscow's defense aviation from the very beginning. It was the only Soviet fighter capable of fighting at high altitudes. It could intercept bombers and reconnaissance planes like the Ju-86.

@richardyoung9773 2 года назад

P-40E had a significantly higher top speed than listed here. 538 kph @ 4,600 M.

@thestormofwar 2 года назад

The term "myopic carpenter" has now entered my vocabulary. Awesome. As far as the MIG 3, it probably would have been more successful than the Yak series had circumstances been different.

@timkbirchico8542 2 года назад

i have the Mig3 on war thunder , its an agile plane and it accelerates well. Its tough. If you get target in sight the guns do good damage. I enjoy flying this aircraft.

@trickydicky2908 2 года назад

Very beautiful plane. Would make a good RC kit.

@benlaskowski357 2 года назад

Like the P-39, it had to be used within its limitations. The problem was pilot training, and in Russia's chaotic state at the time this wasn't a given.

@jakkeledin4645 2 года назад

Mig as all Sovjet planes got one very bad weakness: russian made plex class over cocpit. It goes yellow, couldn t stand sunlight. If it was over one year old, Sovjet pilot was quite blind.

@drstewartshermanful Год назад

That's what drew me to the Meg three initially while playing war thunder. The MC3 the beast looking fighter. I really didn't know much about it and I'd kind of discovered it while playing. The low altitude thing is definitely correct I cannot turn with anybody and I rapidly losing advantage. But as a booming zoom fighter from high-altitude that thing is relatively incomparable. But yeah, I really like the way that plane looks!!