FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
OK and my original statement was "depending on the aircraft, they were partially made of wood" So your point?I didn't include the biplanes because their performance wasn't high enough
The I-16 was mixed but mostly wood, 10,000 were made almost all before 1942. (270 -300 mph depending on the model)
The Yak 1 was mostly-wood aircraft, with wooden wings. 8,700 made, mostly before 1944. (340-360 mph depending on version)
The Yak 7 also had wooden wings and partly wood fuselage, 6,300 made, also mostly before 1944 (350 mph)
The Yak 9 was 'partly wood' a mix of wood and aluminum (aluminum covered wings) 16,000 built (420 mph)
The LaGG-3 was all wood, 6,500 made, all prior to 1944. (340 mph)
The La 5 and La 5F and FN was all wood, 9,900 made, mostly replaced by La 7 in 1944 (400 mph)
The La 7 was mixed wood and metal, 5,000 made (410 mph)
The MiG-3 was mixed, including mostly wooden wings, 3,400 made (400 mph) (image here gives you an idea what parts were wood and what parts aluminum alloy)
By my count that is 16,000 all-wood (except for engine and guns), 25,000 'mostly' wood, and 24,000 mixed or partly wood aircraft. May of them successful, all in the 300-400 mph range (except some of the earlier I-16s)
A a large portion of the aircraft you listed were destroyed on the ground and shot out of the sky, especially during Barbarossa, so again what's your point?OK - and my original statement "depending on the aircraft, they were partially made of wood"I think this demonstrates that the Soviets made a very large amount of high performance wooden aircraft. They had some problems with the designs and the manufacturing, but the Mosquito wasn't entirely without problems either, and both England and the US had superior industrial capacity to the Soviet Union.