Captured LaGG-3 50
LaGG-3 50 4 2
Captured LaGG-3 50 4
LaGG-3 winter
LaGG-3 Zhizdra Winter 42-43
LaGG-3 Zhizdra Winter 1942-43 2
LaGG-3
LaGG-3 10
MiG-3 28
Crash landing of LaGG-3
LaGG-3 with ski undercarriage
LaGG-3 RS-82
LaGG-3 with RS-82 rockets and skis
LaGG-3 with RS-82 rockets
LaGG-3 with drop tanks September 1941
Groundcrew refuelling LaGG-3 May 1943
Finnish LaGG-3 LG-3
LaGG-3 landing
LaGG-3 66th series of the 249 IAP, Kulagin 1944
LaGG-3 from 609 IAP
Abandoned LaGG-3 5 at Rostov
LaGG-3 50 and Italian troops 1942
LaGG-3 4th series 71 of the 524 IAP, Finland March 1942
LaGG-3 29 Ostrogozhsk 2
LaGG-3 29 Ostrogozhsk
LaGG-3 of the 24 IAP 1941
LaGG-3 1941
LaGG-3 20 1941
LaGG-3 21 IAP
LaGG-3 of the 21 IAP 2
LaGG-3 of the 170 IAP
LaGG-3 16
Pilots with LaGG-3 156 IAP 2
White LaGG-3
LaGG-3 11th series of the 5 GIAP December 1941
LaGG-3 and crew of the 156 IAP
LaGG-3-29 (29th Series)
LaGG-3-11 with RS-82 and 82l drop tanks
Finnish LaGG-3 LG-3
LaGG-3 is a single-engine monoplane fighter that was in service with the Red Army Air Force during the Great Patriotic War. It was used as a fighter, fighter-interceptor, fighter-bomber, scout aircraft and was produced in 1941-1944. One of three new generation fighters adopted before German invasion of the USSR (the other two are MiG-3 and Yak-1).
V.P. Gorbunov was the project manager and head of the Design Bureau-301 to create LaGG-3, however, the plane was named after V.P. Gorbunov, not only the project manager, but also his closest employees: S. Lavochkin. A. and Gudkov M.I. – LAGG.
Positive qualities: powerful weapon on the first series, high survivability, minimal use of scarce materials – the main material of pine, birch veneer, plywood and resin-modified wood (delta wood), fire resistance.
Disadvantages: a weak engine and, as a result, poor traction, design flaws due to record short development time, excessive weight due to the use of poorly studied material (delta wood), which forced the calculations to use large coefficients of safety margin. When production quality dropped sharply, the pilots gave him a nickname: Летающий Авиационный Гарантированный Гроб, which is a “Flying Aircrew Guaranteed Coffin”.
In September 1941, the Design Bureau-301 under the leadership of M.I. Gudkov first equipped LAGG-3 with an air-cooled star engine ASH-82 and successfully tested it (Gu-82), but according to the strange position of NKAP it was not put into mass production.
An attempt to install this engine on LAGG-3 was made and OKB-31 under the leadership of Gorbunov V.P. (Taganrog), but it was not completed due to urgent evacuation. Later, already in Tbilisi, Gorbunov managed to install the engine on LAGG-3, but its variant (G-1) was inferior in speed characteristics to other modifications of LAGG-3 with ASh-82.
Six months after the Design Bureau-301, Design Bureau-21 under the leadership of S. Lavochkin. А. (Gorky city) after a similar operation – installation of the air-cooled engine ASH-82 on LAGG-3, it was possible to launch its aircraft under the name of La-5, which became the basis for the family of fighters La-5F, La-5FN, La-7.