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@juliane__ Not really. In 1941. Yak-1 was the best all-around Soviet fighter for the task at hand. Mig-3 was a great high altitude fighter but sub-par at low altitudes where combat took place for the most part, and LaGG-3 had terrible quality issues that made it almost a sitting duck. I-16 was obsolete and I-185 was still just a prototype.
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It doest't look very stealthy to me with all those curved surfaces.
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Unconfirmed
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True. Supposedly a bazzilion dollar piece of aerospace development whose existence and overall shape was leaked into public because a few hundred buck's worth of tarpaulin was not covering it...
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Has an engine as powerful as Zero's, but with two vertical stabilizers (extra drag) + no glass cockpit (perhaps solvable) + awkward weight distribution + probaply short range. All for heavy armament and a tricycle landing gear. Might gave been useful as a point defense bomber interceptor, otherwise - fighters with conventional layout could offer more with same power.
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Designer: What weapons do you need it to carry? USN: Yes! Designer: Um, I mean in one go... USN: YES!
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English Electric Lightning before its time...
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5:40 Comes handy to camouflage the tank with shrubs and branches too...
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The plane was named S-49. Ikarus was the name of the factory that produced it.
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Do-17k-s, SM79s and Bristol Blenheim Mk Is :)
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IK-3 was not a development of IK-2 (which was a monoplane with high-mounted strutted wing). It was a new design by the same design team.
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The Swiss religious Sturmovik (carrying crosses).
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SM79 was perhaps the most successful ITALIAN torpedo bomber of the war.
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Perhaps a mockup for testing of the radar cross section of various shapes. Not an actual flying aircraft. It could also be a mockup that does not resemble any actual US aircraft under development, whose footage was "leaked" into public to confuse any developers in the rival countries. Finally, it could be an artistic architectural feature to be added to a building under construction, or a movie prop - unrelated to aerospace industry.
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Yugoslavia was outcast from the Soviet sphere of influence by Stalin since he had an agreement with Churchill to leave it as a buffer state and Tito was acting wild as he thought that USSR (which unlike the West did not have operational nuclear weapons at the time) had his back (see Percentages Agreement, Trieste Crisis, Yugoslav support for the communists in the Greek Civil War, Corfu Channel incidents, downing of 2 US C-47s over Istria and forcing a British C-47 to land in south Yugoslavia...)
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A few dozen Yugoslav Bf-109 es also confronted the Germans.
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The rear fuselage was made out of a telegraph pole. Change my mind 😁
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@vanja2565 Ikarus is alive and well - just renamed Ikarbus and produces buses.
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A child of MS-406 and Hurricane Mk I that outdid his parents.
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@inveenhuizen You really believe that the Taliban Afghanistan air force, as described, can be a threat to China or Russia?
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@jebise1126 Soviet invasion was 40 years ago, times change, priorities change, alliances change. Need I remind you that during the said invasion US materially supported the Taliban. Less than two decades later they were at war. Similar things happened between China and Vietnam in the 60s and 70s. On the other hand France and Austria were rivals for centuries but they became allies during the Seven Year's War, long time rivals, France and UK became allies against Russian expansion during the Crimean War, Japan went on to be on good terms with USA after WW2 in spite of millions, soldiers and civillians alike, killed by the USA during the war (the Japanese elite reasoned better that than risking a communist takeover and losing all). Vietnam today is on good terms with USA in spite of 2 million dead during the Vietnam War (they need support to resist the potentially far more dangerous influence of the neighboring China, they used to rely on USSR before the collapse)...
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@inveenhuizen For Iran China or Russia & satellites getting USA out of Afghanistan (as cheaply as possible) was the main concern. Having the Taliban take over after they left and capturing some niche role combat-ish aircraft which a few of their fighter squadrons can neutralize was just a byproduct of USA leaving. Besides, Afghanistan (under tthe Talibans or otherwise) still needs some foreigh relations to combat famine or disease (and thus avoid another potential civil war between desperate hungry people). Getting USA out was particularly important for Iran and China as it literally stands between them and China wants Iran's raw materials while Iran wants China's products and technology. And USA could have spied both from Afghanistan (although it does go both ways) .
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I'd say that the Gnat partly influenced the design of the Yugoslav/Romanian J-22 Orao/IAR-93 light attack aircraft. It looks like it's bigger cousin. Although the greatest inspiration was probably the Jaguar (whose design may have also been influenced by the Gnat). Shoulder mounted wing of similar shape, similar engine intake, tail and cockpit placement...
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Ikarus was the name of the factory that produced it, not the aircraft itself (its designation was S-49).
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Main opposition to the German air raids on Belgrade on the 6th of April 1941. came from a few dozen Yugoslav Bf-109s alongside which the IK-3s also pounced. Also there was AAA.
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If your whole strategy can collapse if the enemy destroys a tankerload of your oil, somehow I think you picked a wrong fight to begin with...
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@trooperdgb9722 ... and reduced payload capacity. Mustang already had long range/loitering time without the extra fuel tanks and COIN usually does not require long range and too great a loitering time. Besides - Salvador is a small country, why TF did they need Mustangs with extra fuel tanks? To do COIN over Mexico City with their overstrength flight-sized air force?
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Soviet entry into WW2
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