Love your avatar btw. 6th Stormo yes? Ita unit insignia artwork is nice to look at.
Here's the estimates compiled out of Bergstrom's Black Cross/Red Star volumes 1-3 covering the war up to end 1942.
Soviet
21,200 lost total 6/22/41 - 12/6/41
(10,600 in combat 6/22 - 12/31)
5100 fighters
4600 bombers
600 ground attack
300 other types
The Bergstorm numbers are pretty good, but they are taken from published GHQ statistics (Krivosheïev), not is own estimations.*
But not very useful.
Mikhail Morozov gives 14 300 VVS losses until the end of november 41 and some other 2 200 ones lost by fleet, Long range bombers, AAfighters and "non entered in the acounts" ones...
From the 14 300: 3473 lost in air combats, 1340 by Flak, 3904 for unknown reasons 3352 on ground and approx 2200 by accidents.
From Isaev works on guenine front line war diaries, this is a very biaised and embellish truth. In fact most planes were just abandonated with sabotage or not on the airfields, during first mounths of retreat. Later some homeric fights against Luft and ground destruction retrospectivly invented.
Well, logical i would say. Nobody wanted to be executed by Stalin!
Some criticism was made on Isaev work since he was not bringing enough proofs, but it's seems just a matter of time now.
OK, just to say it's decreases the direct Jagdaffe part on VVS destruction. How much? Difficult to say but no more than 5 000 shooted down soviet planes within 5 months. That's still an impressive result.
Regards
*The soviet air foce VVS statistical digest is little different
VVS Statistical Digest - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum
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