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Originally Posted by Bruno Lotse
BTW, who did give the Soviet airforce more up-to-date planes to cover the losses of thousands of planes on the 1st month of Operation Barbarossa?
And which planes are these?
Airocobra?
Is it the same plane which US flyers would spit on and did not want to fly?
So they would send a crap to Russians and would call it 'a great help'!!!
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Yes, I mean the Airacobra.
It wasnt great, but it was a definite improvement considering the I-16 & I-153 that simply lacked the power to go in vertical fights with the Messerschmitt 109.
And let's not forget the Hurricanes Soviets got.
IIRC (I have the book, but cant ******* remember, so might be wrong), the first plane to really match the Me109 was Yak9 or La5.