In fact, the quality of this Lag-3 fighter is as rough as ever. Even because it was produced during the war, the craftsmanship was even more inferior. Moreover, the climb performance is not as good as the basic type, and the low-altitude performance is not as good as the Yak-1 fighter developed in the same period. Moreover, the handling is abnormally bad, and it is not much better than the I-16 fighter, which is known for its poor handling.

But this fighter's combat performance at medium and low altitudes is still quite good. At least with Japanese aircraft, there is also the ability to fight at medium and low altitudes. Moreover, after these planes arrived at the Anti-United Nations, according to the comparison of the performance of this type of aircraft with the performance of known Japanese aircraft, the Anti-United Nations also adopted certain methods to reduce weight and improve the maneuverability of this kind of aircraft.

After these planes arrived at the Anti-Union, the Anti-United reduced the weight of the aircraft in order to change its poor climbing performance as much as possible. The 20-mm guns were dismantled, leaving only two 12-mm machine guns. Anyway, the protection performance of the Japanese Type 1 fighter is not much better than that of the Zero Battle, and the firepower of two 12-mm machine guns is enough.

And after dismantling the 20-mm gun, and the 120 shells it was equipped with. The performance of the Lag-3 fighter, which has been reduced by hundreds of kilograms, has changed. It turns out that the overweight fuselage has been greatly improved in terms of climb rate, turning performance, and even speed after a certain amount of weight has been reduced.

The maximum speed is basically up to the standard of the design manual, and there has been a great improvement in the performance of horizontal combat. The vertical maneuverability and horizontal combat ability are basically roughly equal to those of the Type C and Type 2 of the Japanese Type 1 fighters. Coupled with the maximum level flight speed, it is far more than all models in duplicate.

Except for the climb rate, which is still somewhat inferior to the previous models, and the difference in range is too great, the rest of the performance is not inferior to that of the Japanese aircraft. Moreover, the batch of Lager-3 fighters received by the Anti-Union is a newly manufactured later improved model. The handling performance of the aircraft, although it is not comparable to that of the P40 fighter. But there have been improvements over the earliest models, albeit not by much.

After receiving all the 200 Lag-3 fighters, the anti-United Nations air force adopted the tactic of combining the three planes according to the different characteristics of the three planes and the experience of this air battle. The Hurricane II B fighter was used to attack the Japanese bombers, and was not engaged in aerial combat with the Japanese army.

The Lager-3 fighter and the Hurricane-2C fighter are responsible for entangling the escort at medium and low altitudes. At present, the few P40B fighters left in the Anti-United Nations adopted the tactics of high-altitude dive-and-run. As for the Zhong Kui fighters, which had excellent climbing performance and extremely fast speed, they were handed over to the only few remaining MiG-3 fighters.

Only by combining the operational characteristics of these three fighters with the relative effectiveness of the Anti-Japanese Union did the anti-coalition contain the situation in air warfare that was gradually beginning to deteriorate. It's just that after the end of the air battle in October, although the only remaining MiG-3 fighters of the Anti-Japanese Union shot down more than 10 Zhong Kui fighters, the remaining 10-odd MiG-3 fighters that could still fly were also lost.

That is to say, by October, the MiG-3 fighters of the Anti-United Nations had completely withdrawn from the battlefield without a supplementary source. In order to cope with the pressure of high-altitude defense in the rear, in the absence of high-altitude fighters with excellent performance. Yang Zhen, who had no choice but to use the few gold reserves left, bought another batch of second-hand goods from the Soviets, which had also been transferred to the Territorial Defense Force.

After the air battle in October, the anti-United Nations fighter unit, which had suffered a great loss of vitality, relied on these 200 Lag-3 fighters and the 100 MiG-3 fighters that were subsequently purchased. And only a few dozen P-40B fighters remained, struggling to support the arrival of the follow-up Yak-9 fighters, as well as the Hurricane 4 fighters.

Although the British received a report that they were forcibly pulled to the front-line command post of the Xinjing Air Force by Yang Zhen to watch the battle with Ross, they quickly gave a batch of Hurricane-4 fighters before November. However, the number is too small, only 120 aircraft, which is simply not enough to replace the original Hurricane-2B and C fighters.

Before the Soviet Union subsequently exchanged Yak fighters reached a sufficient number, it was the Lag-3 fighters who struggled to hold on to the overall situation. The Americans, who also received Pearson's report, although supplied a batch of P40D and F fighters. However, the arrival time of this batch of US-made fighters was already in April 43.

However, although the medium and low altitude performance of this Lager-3 fighter was barely a battle, the poor maneuverability and the short service life of Soviet-made aircraft, as well as the high unreliability of the engine. This batch of Lager-3 fighters, with a total of two hundred units, looks like a lot of them. But more planes crashed themselves than were shot down in air combat.

The Soviets signed the agreement, and prima facie fulfilled it. But for the supply of follow-up fighters, the Soviets have always played tricks. The La-5 fighters with better performance in the original agreement, no matter how urged by the Anti-United Nations, were nowhere to be seen by the end of the fourth or third year.

In the original agreement, the Soviets promised to give the La-5 fighters, but the stolen beams were replaced by the Yak-7 with much worse performance. There were only a hundred Yak-9 fighters that were actually sent to the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The Yak-7 fighter can only fight against the Type 2 fighter, and it is still not an opponent in the face of the Type 2 fighter, but it is not as powerless as the Hurricane II.

However, the Soviets gave them only so many fighters. In the face of the Type 3 fighters invested by the Japanese army in 43 years, Yang Zhen tried his best to get 200 Yak-9 fighters from the Soviets. As for the more anticipated La-5 fighter, it is still far away.

After receiving these Soviet-made fighters, the Anti-Union directly withdrew all the Hurricane fighters except for Type 4 from the front-line air battle and transferred them to ground attack. By the end of the four or three years, when the British no longer provided any type of fighter except for the Stirling bomber, the Hurricane II obtained by the Anti-United Nations was changed to ground attack.

Under the circumstance that all models of American-made P-40 fighters could not compete with the new Japanese fighters, these Soviet-made fighters, although they were not many in number, also became the most important fighters of the Anti-United Nations. In particular, after the Japanese army's Type 3 and Type 4 fighters were put into the front line, although the number was small, these Soviet-made fighters still undertook the task of major air supremacy struggle together with some P40K fighters aided by the United States.

The British gave a large number of Hurricane fighters, and by the time the aid of fighters was stopped in the middle of four or three years, the total number had reached 1,000. But the latest model of the fourth type, the number of all together is only four hundred, and the rest are all old-fashioned type two. Not to mention confronting the new fighters that have appeared in the Japanese army one after another, even the old Type 1 and Type 2 fighters cannot contend with them.

And with the Type 4 Hurricane fighter put into the battlefield, even the Soviet-made Yak-9 could not compete with it. Yang Zhen could only find a way to negotiate with the Soviet side, and finally the Anti-United Nations got the latest Soviet La-5 FN fighter and the follow-up La-7 fighter, which was already in the first half of four or four years. Just the number of 300 planes, Yang Zhen took out 500 tanks in exchange.

However, although the Soviets adopted the method of stealing beams and replacing pillars, and put Yang Zhen on the aircraft model, they always kept one hand. However, on the issue of developing long-range fighters for the Anti-United Nations, under Yang Zhen's repeated urging, the agreement was fulfilled. In the first half of the fourth and third years, the Yak-9 DD, that is, the ultra-long-range fighter, was handed over to the Anti-United Nations.

It's just that the Soviets only let the Amur Komsomolsk Aircraft Plant build a hundred planes, and the rest still need to be manufactured by the Anti-Union itself. The attitude of the Soviets is what you ask me to do, and I have done it all. As for how much you Chinese can make, it has nothing to do with the Soviets.

I have handed over the design drawings to you, and I have also sent personnel to coordinate your production. And through the Amur Komsomolsk Aircraft Plant, a large number of skilled and skilled workers have been trained for you. If you can't produce even one, it has nothing to do with the Soviets.

Although the Soviets designed an interface for this aircraft that could discard the auxiliary fuel tank in accordance with the requirements of the Anti-United Nations. The engine was also changed from the Klimov engine of the prototype to the Soviet imitation of the liquid-cooled Grayback Falcon engine used in the Hurricane IV fighter. This kind of long-range fighter, when carrying the auxiliary fuel tank, has a maximum endurance of more than 3,500 kilometers, which is more than 1,300 kilometers farther than the prototype.

The aircraft was equipped with two 12-millimeter machine guns and a 20-millimeter cannon, and its firepower was sufficient to deal with most of the fighters in Japan. When equipped with disposable auxiliary fuel tanks, taking off from the first line of Jiamusi and Hunchun, the flight range can basically cover the entire Japanese mainland. However, it did not provide any auxiliary fuel tanks to the Anti-Union, and only gave two prototypes of their own design.

The first time the Hurricane-4 fighters arrived at the end of '42 arrived, they were very satisfied with their performance after a test flight, and they were even more satisfied with the engines used in the modified aircraft. Two spare engines were immediately supplied to the USSR, which were mapped and copied by the Soviet side.

The Soviets were asked to design long-range fighters with this British engine instead of the Klimov engine of the Soviet-made Yak-9 fighter. This makes the Yak-9 fighter's already excellent medium and low altitude performance even more powerful. The original poor climbing effect and the fact that the maximum level flight speed has lagged behind, have also been fundamentally improved.

Through similar imitation work on the imported American, British, and French engines in the early years, the Soviets, who had already established a certain foundation for copycat other people's products, also completed reverse mapping at the first time. Although due to wartime technology, the power of the engine decreased slightly. But the drop in power of thirty-seven horsepower is completely negligible compared to this engine of 1,620 horsepower.

But after using this British engine as the engine, this ultra-long-range Yak-9 fighter, specially developed for the Anti-United Nations, compared to the prototype using the Soviet-made Klimov M-107 liquid-cooled engine. The performance of the whole machine is described as reborn, which is quite an exaggeration.

Relying on the high-horsepower engine, coupled with the Yak-9's own excellent aerodynamic shape, its maximum ceiling has reached 11,000 kilometers, and the maximum level flight speed has reached 654 kilometers. And despite the speed and range, it is not as good as the Mustang B fighter jets that the United States put into the battlefield at almost the same time.

But in other performances, especially hovering performance, it is stronger than the Mustang fighter. The rate of climb and the maximum ceiling are almost the same. The most fundamental thing is to solve the problem of the refusal of the Americans to provide Mustang fighters, and to meet the needs of the long-range escort of the Anti-United Nations.

However, the Soviets refused to produce and manufacture a batch of this imitation engine for the Anti-United Nations, and only provided a full set of drawings, fifty engines, and two engine engineers to assist the Anti-United Nations in independent manufacturing. As for the request of the Anti-Japanese Federation to directly order 1,000 units, the Soviets simply rejected it.