• Angelucci, Enzo. When Harry Hopkins first time in 1941 visited Moscow and asked Stalin what Soviets need more than anything else The Generalissimo replied: “aluminium”. With 36,183 units, the Il-2 became the biggest mass-produced combat aircraft in history.These well-protected Soviet ground-attack aircraft had a reputation for surviving the worst the enemy could throw at them. Yak-9U (“Improved”) was the latest modification of the aircraft with a new engine, which gave it an amazing speed.

With 16,769 fighters completed by Soviet factories, it became the biggest Soviet mass-produced fighter of WWII.

It made me wonder if the adoption of turretless Soviet self-propelled guns prior to 1944 might have been influenced by this situation.What official Soviet history is not eager to talk about is problems of Soviet to increase fast their own oil production from late 1942. A pilot had to be a true sniper, since its magazine was limited to just 30 rounds. 3 J. M. Cooper, The Soviet Defence Industry: Conversion and Reform (London, 1991), p. 6.

1942. Besides, gunners suffered from poor protection, which led to high losses for them.

Such heavy aircraft were too clumsy for good aerial maneuvers.


Armed with two 20 mm ShVAK cannon, it had few difficulties in dealing with its main competitor - the Fw 190, which had lower performance specifications than the Soviet fighter except for dive speed.With the La-7 the Soviet command filled the ranks of their best Guards Air Regiments. French pilots from the Normandie-Neman air regiment, which fought in the Soviet Union against the Nazis, preferred these aircraft to any other, even to British and American ones, which the Soviets received via Lend-Lease.

Unlike the United States, the Soviet Union came into World War II with an extensive tank industry-one the Soviets had unashamedly based on American-style mass production. Statistically, for each pilot killed seven gunners died. When Harry Hopkins first time in 1941 visited Moscow and asked Stalin what Soviets need more than anything else The Generalissimo replied: “aluminium”. We've got more than 1,7 million followers on Facebook.

Military production during World War II was a critical component to military performance during World War II.

This table shows the relationships in Gross domestic product (GDP), between a selection of Allied and Axis countries, from 1938 to 1945, counted in billion … Production was only resumed in 1943, and in the next year the aircraft appeared over battlefields en masse.Much easier to control than its main partner aircraft, the Pe-2, a Tu-2 could carry up to three tons of bombs (Pe-2 - just one ton).

Note: Visiting this site with enabled AD BLOCKERS is prohibited ! Following are tables of the annual Russian (Soviet) armaments production (excluding Annual Soviet production figures of the main arms and military equipment (without ammunition) during the Second World War from 1939-1945: Talking about Soviet aircraft production is little bit complex when without lend lease technology and such low aluminium production they won’t have produced more than 50,000 -60,000 aircraft.
9 Soviet Fighter Planes of WW2 - Some fantastic Airplanes Here After the war, to help restore its air force, 37 Yak-3’s flown by French pilots were presented by the USSR to France.“I fought against all types of Soviet fighters, including those supplied under Lend-Lease, and the Yak-9 was the best,” Luftwaffe ace Gerhard Barkhorn The main advantage of this reliable, maneuverable and simple to fly Soviet fighter aircraft was its universality: 15 modifications of the fighter went into full production during WWII.

Among them were fighter, fighter-bomber, reconnaissance, courier and special purpose aircraft. 1944.