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BlacktailFA — Warplane Disasters! Episode 8: The LaGG-3
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Published: 2015-04-24 00:04:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1560; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 3
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The LaGG-3 was an attempt to create a Fighter on-the-the-cheap by using a wooden skeleton rather than a metal one, that backfired terrifically.It's designers severely overestimated the wooden frame's weight-savings, the firepower the guns would have, the stability of the aerodynamics, the power the selected engine would produce, the strength of the landing gear, and the adequacy of the awkward canopy's visibility... to name a few.
The resulting LaGG-3 was put into service with the Soviet Air Force anyway, it's performance requirements waved in order to rush it into service in time for combat in World War 2. Unfortunately, they weren't able to get a waiver for the combat test, which the LaGG-3 failed BRUTALLY.
There's more, but you might as well watch the presentation and see for yourself.
As usual, the script for this presentation was edited for spelling & grammar by meaninter03.
These are my sources...
"The World's Worst Aircraft", by Jim Winchester (Barnes & Noble, 2005)
www.aviastar.org/air/russia/la…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavochki…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavochki…
www.ww2warbirds.net/ww2htmls/l…
www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/airc…
aarc.warbirdsresourcegroup.org…
www.j-aircraft.com/captured/ca…
www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/a…
www.aviastar.org/air/russia/la…
www.airwar.ru/enc/fww2/lagg3.h…
www.asisbiz.com/il2/LaGG-3/Lav…
russian.warbirdsresourcegroup.…
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This is an interesting one. I should say that given the LaGGs qualities, I do have a book that says that it still helped the URSS to gain time in that first Summer, if nothing else.
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That would be the case, except that the LaGG-3 wasn't available in large numbers during that year. It was introduced in mid-1941 and manufactured into 1944, so it's unlikely that more than a small percentage of the 6258 built were available at the time.
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So, it simply failed in every regard, basically.
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