The legendary aircraft of the Hero of Socialist Labor S.A. Lavochkina is rightfully considered one of the symbols of victory. Although his firstborn Lagg-3 turned out to be frankly unsuccessful, “deserved” the nickname “varnished guaranteed coffin”, installing a new motor and improving the structure literally transformed this heavy clumsy machine, turning into the best fighter of the Great Patriotic War-the famous La-5, La-5fn and La-7 first intercepted dominance from the Germans in the air, and then broke down the Germans and then broke down Range of Luftwaffe. It was on these planes that two of the five best Soviet aces fought, and Ivan Kozhedub was the first to hit the latest reactive ME.262. It was Lavochkin who stood at the origins of Soviet reactive aircraft – this was his fighters the first to overcome the supersonic, and the intercontinental winged rocket “Storm” – and the heat barrier. It was in his OKB that the first domestic drones and anti -aircraft guided missiles that covered Moscow in the midst of the Cold War were created.
Breaking through the curtain of a total secret …
Author
Yakubovich Nikolay Vasilievich
Editor
Galkina D.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2012
Series
War and we. Aviation designers
Genre
Military equipment
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