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Hi everybody, I am recently making some researches about two Yak-9s that have been shot down on 24th April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, possibly near Erkner. I would like to identify at least the air division they operated with (or even better the exact unit), but so far I only managed to...

Russian military historian Mark Solonin has published recently three videos under the general topic "aircraft vs tank". Pretty good work and highly recommended to anyone who can read(listen) Russian. In the third video, the author displayed one interesting table: bombing accuracy of VVS medium...

Finally I was able to finish this model. It is an ARK model which is based on older the ICM kit but of a lesser quality in my opinion. Not a perfect one, of course, and it has some errors but I think it turned out to be an OK representation of Chernobay's aircraft from December 1942. I used...

Valid question of Schweik in another thread about ability of Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber to fly with one engine down. Best Allied medium bomber 1942-1943 besides the Mosquito I searched through Russian language sources to find more information. Let me present results of my findings in two parts...

Hello there! I am trying to find out the color scheme under the temporary winter camouflage for Lieutenant Federov's Yak-9T during winter 43-44 in 812nd IAP. Was it the early or late pattern? Because of the date both seems to be appropriate. According to the drawings from the Aviamaster...

At what point could we say that the VVS made its recovery from the disaster of 1941? It seems to me that the shift to the Mediterranean and the Stalingrad disaster finally gave the VVS the breathing room to stage a recovery and start to become the juggernaut of 1944-45; without that I don't...