Thread: Yak-15
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Old 07-26-2009, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Almighty Blighty View Post
Considering that the russian designers were instructed to make a jet in feb of 1945, i don't think that the plane actually made it off of the productions lines in time for the end of the war. So it is likely that it will be missed out. Would be nice though, i really like the way it looks- though only two 23mm cannon is a bit weedy, it should make things abit more challenging for people who like a good fight
the russians would have made the best aircraft of the war but Stalin had a fear of flying and thought that arresting the plane designers would solve his problem.
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