Source: 'Rapid Fire', book by Tony Williams, pg.
Il 2 tank buster free#
The MK 103M was a major redesign, with change/relocation of gas porting, thus making the barrel free from piping at it's half length, in order for cannon to fit to the Bf 109. Diameter of the blast tube for the perspective motor-kannone on the DB 605 was 70mm, thus allowing only 80 cm of the barrel of the MK 103 to fit, leaving the rest 2/3rds of the cannon's length to stick behind the engine. on the DB 605 precluded installation of a cannon that has gas return port at the barrel. The Vee filled with 'plumbing', fuel injection pump etc. The Yak 1 was thereabout at sea level, the Lagg-3 was at ~475 km/h at SL.Ī cannon, here the HS 404 (252 cm long) within the engine's Vee intake manifols located outboard the Vee free the volume of interest: link Granted, no HS 12Y of 1940/41 will provide 1050 PS at 5 km. How good was the Bf 109F on 1000 PS? With actually 1020 PS (= DB 601N on 30 min power), it was doing 495 km/h on deck, with 1050 PS it was good for 595 km/h at 5 km. Lagg-3 is draggier than 109F (10% bigger wing, thicker both in relative and absolute terms) and 20% heavier. Apart from change in nomenclature, the PF engine was heavier and alloved for greater boost - hence the 1260 HP power figure, unlike the 1000-1100 HP for the M-105P. In 1941, there is no VK-105PF engine, but M-105P. Change from MG 151/15 to MK 101 (bare cannons 42 vs. DB 601N decreaces weight by ~120 kg just on bare engine. The Bf 109F1/F2 were at 2248 kg empty, 2728 kg ready for take off (no racks, no bomb/drop tank Kennblatt ). 'Usual' Lagg-3 were at ~3300 kg ready for take off (bar a few lightened examples), so the weight increase due to change in armament was negligible. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Lagg-3-37 was at 2832 kg empty, 3363 kg ready for take off (per Khazanov & Yefimov book on Soviet fighters, the tables from that book are floating on the 'net).
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The book includes color artwork and detailed scale drawings in the usual Aerofax style.
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Due attention is paid to the latest programs to upgrade the Su-25 with modern requirements both in Russia and elsewhere. In addition to the main versions up to and including the Su-25TM (Su-39) 'tank killer'.
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A detailed list is given of the type's many operators, which even included a NATO country (Slovakia). The type's Afghan War involvement receives extensive coverage, as does the Su-25's use in the Chechen Wars. The book describes the Su-25's development history and its extensive combat career, starting with Operation Romb, when the then-experimental Su-25 received its baptism of fire in the Afghan War, to the conflicts in former Yugoslavia and the drug-busting operations in Peru.
Il 2 tank buster series#
After a series of design changes the aircraft entered production and service as the Su-25. When a contest was called to produce a latter-day Shturmovik, the Sukhoi Design Bureau emerged as the winner with its T-8 project, beating competition from the Ilyushin and Myasiishchev bureaus. The Soviet aircraft industry had considerable experience in attack aircraft design to fall back on, dating back to the most famous of these types, the Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik of the World War II era. When the USA launched a new battlefield attack aircraft program which eventually led to the development of the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the Soviet Union saw the need to create an equivalent.