Best Russian Fighter

[Chocks away!]

What are you, Ivan The Terrible? I mean did you spend two bullets on each plane or something?

[Chocks away!]

Concerning the Me-262 movie-i thought it was hilarious due to that soundtrack you chose Heavy Metal would be better suited for the dogfights- Try Iron Maiden!

[cheddar cheese]

Get up nice and close behind em and aim for the engine. (By close I mean about 10 yards or less)

[mosquitoman]

How can you aim for an engine in the front of the plane when you are 10 yards behind it?

[plan_D]

You sway a little to the left or right and hit along the side of the aircraft. It's easier said than done but almost certainly a kill.

Personally I aim for the tips of the wings when right behind a fighter. Most of the time though I come in from the top and try and hit the cockpit.

[Glider]

The Russians used the I16 and the I153 in Manchuria in the mid 1930's and beet the Japenese which was a pretty good effort.

[Chocks away!]

Yep deadly serious

I just added you to my contacts btw-Need to learn

[P38 Pilot]

I dont know anything about Russian Planes because they were kinda outdated.

But when the cold war started, and the Russians built the MiG 15, air combat got a whole lot harder.

I just voted for the Yak-9 and got it over with.

[Stupid]

The Yak-3!! It was probably the most manueverable fighter of WWII, and made short work of my Grandfather, (who was a expeirenced fighter bomber pilot). there also way cooler looking then the La-7 in my opinion and was available earlier.

[Soren]

The Yak-3, a very nimble little fighter, but at a loss as altitude increased.

[Burmese Bandit]

Yep, the seven for me too. Other russian fighters were good - some very good - but way, way too undergunned...except the La-7.

But IMHO the reason why all russian fighters were, usually, poor can be summed up in one word..

GUNSIGHTS. Or the lack thereof.

[Juha]

Hello
to me La-5FN and La-7.
In 1944 against FAF Bf 109Gs La-5Fs/FNs were clearly more dangerous opponents than Yak-9s. The latter was appr. as dangerous opponent to FAF Bf 109Gs as P-39N/Q.

Juha

[Burmese Bandit]

BTW I seem to have read somewhere that Ole Sasha Porykyshin actually did nearly ALL his kills on Cobras and Kingcobras instead of 1/3 in La-7s as is officially credited...and the reason is that he considered Soviet fighters to be undergunned and with lousy gunsighting, for which outspokeness he was quietly punished postwar by the Soviet Regime! Plus their falsifying his stats!

[Juha]

Burmese Bandit
Soviet fighters had reflector gunsights

Juha

[Burmese Bandit]

Yes - only in 1944 - and even then, if you weren't a guards air regiment, you would be lucky if half your polk had reflector gunsights!