It’s been more than 70 years, in our country celebrate the Day of Victory. But this event could not have happened if not thousands of heroes who stood in line, saddled the horses, got behind the levers of the tanks or the aircraft control stick.
A huge contribution to the Victory made the Soviet aviators, who were very successful flying machines. What planes are considered the most successful, look further in the review.
Soviet fighter pilots in the skies over Sevastopol, 1944.
1. Il-2
The legendary Soviet attack aircraft Il-2. | Photo: youtube.com.
In the memoirs of German soldiers often mentioned the Il-2. This is a very effective weapon that delivers a lot of the problems the soldiers in the trenches. The occupants to Il-2 firmly stuck the nickname “the black death”, and Luftwaffe pilots called it the “concrete plane”.
Construction machine of Sergey Ilyushin became the first aircraft in the world, which received such a powerful time of booking. Due to the thick capsule of the cockpit of the plane was almost invulnerable to machine guns and rifle shots from the ground. Even the 20-mm shells of the enemy were often rebound from the armor of the Il-2.
Soviet pilots usually driving at low altitude and approaching the enemy positions, stormed them with a small dive. There were guns, machine guns, bombs, rockets.
2. PE-8
PE-8 Soviet “flying fortress”. | Photo: ribalych.ru.
During the Second world war, the world has quite a lot of strategic bombers, especially in the US and the UK. However, the best is the Soviet machine.
4-engine plane PE-8, also known under the name TB-7, weighs a little less than 30 tons and can lift up to 6 tons of bombs. And the maximum flight range of the machine is 3,600 kilometers. That was enough, so in August 1941, to drop bombs on Berlin.
3. Tu-2
During the war years was released only 800 Tu-2. | Photo: legendary-aircraft.blogspot.com.
According to aviation experts, the Tu-2 is the best tactical bomber of the Second world war. Twin-engined machine was designed under very stringent technical requirements and, therefore, has got impressive specifications.
Tu-2 up to 3 tons of bombs that were dropped by the pilot of a dive. Thus the cargo the aircraft could carry to a distance of 2,500 kilometers.
4. La-7
By the end of the war La-7 was considered one of the best fighter planes. | Photo: airwar.ru.
During the great Patriotic war in the USSR there were many fighter planes, but the greatest love Soviet aces used designs of Lavochkin and Yakovlev. These machines became better and better with each new model, was significantly increased combat power, the engines came injection and the pressurization system.
The pilots of the La-7 fighters in the skies over Germany there were even German jet aircraft Me-262. | Photo: warwall.ru.
In 1944 at the front debuted a new car. La-7 has received a powerful engine, great weapons, high maneuverability. This model is called one of the best fighters of the late war, and flown her famous aces: Ivan Kozhedub, Alexander Pokryshkin, Amet-Khan Sultan and others.
5. The Yak-3
On the Yak-3 flew many Soviet and French aces. | Photo: variety-store.ru.
Another Soviet fighter, which was chosen by not only our experts, but also the French division “Normandy-Neman” – the Yak-3. This model turned out lighter and more powerful than other fighters, and maneuverability “Yak” was struck by how pilots and aviation specialists. The appearance of such cars as the Yak-3 and La-7 had allowed our pilots to finally gain dominance in the sky.
6. Po-2 / U-2
Despite the older design, the U-2 flew a lot and after the war. | Photo: war-tundra.livejournal.com.
The biplane U-2, better known as “kukuruznik”, made its first flight in 1927. It was a machine designed for training young pilots with low speed and very simple. But this did not prevent the U-2 to become one of the most popular aircraft in the world (released about 33 000 PCs.).
During the war the pilots of U-2, often it was women who made the so-called “disturbing” night flight. Constant engine noise over the German positions and the bombs dropped on any light, worked on the German soldiers pretty depressing.
But at the same time in Nazi Germany, engineers have designed a”flying wing” – a unique wooden jet aircraft of the Third Reich, which could change the course of the war.
