Major Soviet Planes of WW2

Have you ever heard of a Yak 3, a Ilyushin Il-2, or a Polikarpov I-16? The air war on the eastern front in World War 2 doesn't get nearly the press that other sectors of the conflict receive. Yet the Soviets had a large air force and made major advances in airplane design throughout the war, eventually reaching parity with the Luftwaffe. This video is a brief overview of the major Soviet planes from the start of the war through the end, together with some comparisons with their German counterparts.
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[@alexkuradnov6462]

I am so happy that i am not the only one who finds these topics interesting

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching !

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

You forgot the Yak 9. It was flown by a free french squadron who also had experience with Spitfires and Mustangs and declared the Yak 9 superior to both. The Luftwaffe issued an order to NOT engage Yak 9 at all. One Soviet squadron killed 27 FW 190 and one Bf 109 for the loss of two Yak 9.

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Interesting, I did not know that a non Soviet squadron also flew the Yak-9. I didn’t include all aircraft both sides used due to time constraints. If I ever make an extended version of this, I will need to add more of the MIG and YAK varients. Thanks for watching!

[@yuttorres2896]

@@AnotherBoringTopic it’s true I read about it a while back

[@savagex466-qt1io]

awsome video man. How come the first BF - 109 was so lightly armed compared to all the other planes ?

[@MiG-31893]

The Ta-152 shot down 6 yak-9s without loss. German pilots said the yak was “hopelessly outclassed” by the Ta

[@JensJackson-yp8vs]

@@MiG-31893 lmao, how many planes were outclassed by the fucking "würger"? literally the tiger of the skies.

[@jakecampbell4208]

"Sir the Aircraft need updating!" ...so you've chosen death

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Yep this shot the defeatists approach is a big reason why the Soviets got mauled so badly in 1941.

[@brandong.1857]

I just tuned in to get some background for my old DOS game, Panzer General. Thanks for posting this video

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Thanks for watching, I hope it helped.

[@alextkhay7452]

Lavanovich? Do you mean Lavochkin. Also, your information on the lagg is flaud, the lagg was made out of many layers of compressed wood covering each layer was a chemical extract, making the compress very very hard, but heavy (more of a plastic than wood), this however made the plane very sturdy and almost immune to flames, the compress didn't catch fire. The main reason why the lagg was dicontinued were the motors, which were used for yaks(that are overall better than laggs in manouverability, but lack the protection of the lagg).Laggs were pretty good planes, the finnish army captured some of them and considered them to be very modern and efficent planes, painting blue swastikas on them and making them their own. The main reason why the la-5 were great is because, there wasn't any competition between the yak's and the la's, different motors means twice as fast of the production, considering the two were astonashing planes that easily matched the 109's and 190's, it was a great deal for the soviets. edit: but the information on everything else was on point(I think), not disencouraging you, great job overall, just make sure you have the right information.

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Thank you for your comment. The Lagg was the better of two mentioned fighters that the Soviet’s started the war with. However from what I read the wood frame did not prove resilient to enemy fire. ww2db.com/aircraft_spec.php?aircraft_model_id=64 I do not doubt that the Finns used some captured models, since the Finnish Air Force was also a bit behind the times. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@Foksipanter]

At 2:05 the description says bg109F , the aircraft in the picture is b109E. Nice video anyway.😊

[@thelightthatshinesbright5625]

Anyone know where I can find the vid of an old ww2 soviet pilot reuniting with his plane? (As best as I can remember I think the plane was an IL2)

[@garryb374]

The I-16 was an amazing plane when it was built in the early 1930s, and even at the start of WWII its four rifle calibre machine guns were ShKAS machine guns that fired at 1,800 rounds per minute each, which is triple the rate of fire of the British 303 machine guns used in their fighters at the start of the war. The four ShKAS machine guns could fire more bullets per minute than 12 British 303 machine guns. More importantly some versions of the I-16 were armed with 20mm cannon which were rather more effective against air and ground targets than any machinegun including the 50 cals of the American fighters. The Americans used HMGs because their cannon were not reliable, not because they were better. The LaGG-3 had an inline piston engine. It was later models like the La-5FN and La-7 that used radial engines and were excellent fighters, every bit as good as anything the Germans had. The allied pilots with the highest scores flew Soviet planes. Being made of wood made the planes easier to damage, but also much easier to repair and support near a front line. The BF-109 was better than the I-16 because like the Hurricane the I-16 was obsolete when the war started, though of course the I-16 was rather more obsolete than the Hurricane was at that time. The Soviets ended the war with MiG-9s and within a few years had the MiG-15 which was superior to anything the Germans were working on.

[@monkeyastronomy4088]

Omg thank you so much I wanted to know more about ussr aviation And info on that is hard

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Thank you for watching. We have some other videos planned but will likely return to Soviet aviation before long.

[@MemeMan-ns3qw]

enjoyed the video a lot but the music is annoying and too loud

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

We really appreciate the helpful feedback, thank you! Audio editing and setting the levels correctly has been a perennial issue, but I think/hope we are getting better with each video. Thanks again!

[@snail3]

a little late to the party, but what about Yak-1? It was a worthy opponent for the Bf-109 at the start of the war, and numbered quiet a few planes

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

I opted to include the Yak-3 instead. However if we make an extended version of this video, the Yak-1 would be a great addition ! Thanks for watching.

[@MarcFromBerryland]

Nice video and fit exactly what I was searching for. I would like to use a 35 second clip from this video in one of my videos 0:42 to 1:17. I would like to ask for your permission to do this. Thanks

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

I don’t think that would be a problem. Please link back to this video and also see the summary description to give credit to the sources of the photos.

[@MarcFromBerryland]

@@AnotherBoringTopic Thanks

[@coltondunkel4485]

You should keep making videos. You'll get more subs soon.

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

We are making more videos, we are just take a while to make them 😁

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Thanks for watching !

[@pleasedontdestroy4851]

@@AnotherBoringTopic why did you use the bf 109 V20 for you bf 109 F series?

[@pleasedontdestroy4851]

@@AnotherBoringTopic Also the Fw 190 A 8 had 2 Mg 131 13mm guns (hub) and 4 wing mounted Mk151/20 guns

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Hi, thanks for the info, so what variant do you think the picture is of ?

[@mikestirewalt5193]

Would someone explain to me just why YT content providers add "music" racket such as in this video, to their videos? It does nothing but distraction and irritation? This must be clear to the providers, yet they do it anyway. Why?? Why o why??

[@bernardthedisappointedowl6938]

Some interesting content, but the volume of the background music is high, and a bit distracting, ^oo^

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Appreciate the feedback, thanks!

[@bernardthedisappointedowl6938]

@@AnotherBoringTopic Happy to help - as I said, the content itself is very good indeed, ^oo^

[@MaxWill-bt2tk]

"radial liquid cooled engine" ? This guy makes the AI narrators sound truly intelligenr

[@secretagent86]

But you still earned my sub

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Appreciate the sub!

[@williamkoppos7039]

Lagg-3 construction of wood did not make it vulnerable to enemy fire, it made it tough and resilient. Added to this was a simple but effective fire suppressant system, that made the Lagg very tough to bring down. The wood construction made it HEAVY and therefore underpowered, and was very hard for novice pilots to handle.

[@External2737]

Wood is tough versus machine guns. Extra vulnerable to exploding (mortor) cannon rounds. The wood in Russian aircraft is why the Germans went cannon happy.

[@MrCenturion13]

What did you say about the La-5 and La-7? You better go study the wiki entry again.

[@brettpeacock9116]

The Polikarpov I-16 did NOT have 4 wing mounted guns. Early models up to the type 16, had 2 guns in the cowling, above the engine and 2 More in the wings... sometimes. Later models (Type 18 to 28), changed the wing machine guns for 23mm cannon. Do some actual research.... your "facts" on the Lagg 3 are also incorrect. The subtypes of that Also had varying weapons fits, and usually only 2 or 3 guns ir cannon.

[@feanorian5674]

3:04 Ivan Kozhedub, not Ivan Kojo :v

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Noted, thank you

[@BarryPennock]

The Polikarpov was used in the Spanish Civil War.

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

I wonder how well it did ?

[@BarryPennock]

@@AnotherBoringTopic It did quite well until the Messerschmitt Bf 109 arrived.

[@patrickporter1864]

The later version was roughly equivalent to the hurricane in terms of speed if not fire power.

[@edwardhanson3664]

That's pretty thin.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

The correct way to pronounce it is IL-YOO-SHIN. There is no "a" there.

[@deutzer5630]

Make more videos dude.

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Thanks, we will! We maybe doing a soviet planes of the early Cold War video in the near future.

[@mysteriosovich4420]

LOVANOVICH!? WHAT THE? come on brother. it's a LOVOCHKIN, lol, not a LOVANOVICH:) WW2's greatest Allied Fighter Ace flew one of these planes, get the name of it right, it's too important. And the name of the Ace is KOZHEDUB, not Kodjin!

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Your mileage on the pronunciation may vary. Thanks for watching!

[@mysteriosovich4420]

@@AnotherBoringTopic NO no and NO:) ! it's very simple, it's a LAVOCHKIN and it's KOZHEDUB, it's pronounced as it's written. These two words are too important to WW2 aviation to get completely wrong. Slight mispronounciations are ok, but you are not mispronouncing them, you are actually saying different words! This totally confuses and misleads people. Please keep making videos, but please please please do research and at least use Google Translate to hear how the 'important' words are pronounced before making a video about them! How would you feel is someone made a video about a 'Sitar'? When they mean 'Spitfire'? the "mispronounciation" is way too extreme. Or 'Casandra' when they mean 'Corsair'? you get the point

[@mysteriosovich4420]

@@AnotherBoringTopic Here , I wrote it for you in Russian (I am Russian). Click on the little 'microphone' icon to hear how it is pronounced. It's pronounced the same in English and Russian. translate.google.com/?sl=ru&tl=en&text=%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%20%0A&op=translate

[@johnvanstone5336]

Why the annoying music ? Gets in the way of your narration !!👺

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@stevep5408]

The I16 was shown to be outclassed during the Spanish civil war in 1936!

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Yes it was badly outclassed by even the earlier variants of the ME-109.

[@14ORION88]

How about German Aircrafts? Supervisor to both U.S. and U.K. aircrafts

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

This video covers some of the main German aircraft of World War 2 and compares them to their counterparts. We may make a western front aircraft video in the future

[@secretagent86]

Omg kill the music sir

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

Thank you for your feedback :)

[@iggy9955]

Stuka is best airplane in ww2.Looking at all the features.

[@AnotherBoringTopic]

The Stuka was a good dive bomber when the war started but was showing its age by the middle of the war. The Germans replaced it with the FW-190 ground attack variant. Still it was a versatile platform that saw a lot of service. Thanks for watching!