Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 1/72 Scale Model

Soviet MiG-3- This is a model of a fighter that flew against the Luftwaffe over the Soviet Union in 1942. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, the Polikarpov I-16 was the most numerous Soviet fighter, but the MiG-3 was the most numerous of the three modern fighters the Soviets had secretly developed after their 1939 invasions of Poland and Finland, the other two being the LaGG-3 and the Yak-1. The MiG-3 was developed as a high-altitude interceptor, but after 1941 most Soviet factories were located so far from the front there was little need to defend them from German bombers. Also, most of the air combat over the Soviet Union occurred at lower altitudes, because of the importance of ground support missions. Since the MiG-3 performed poorly at low altitudes, its production was discontinued in January, 1942, in favor of the tank busting Il-2 Stormovik, which used the same engine. About 3,100 MiG-3s were built, but the plane was rarely used after late 1943.

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