MiG-3, The first MiG, that has been produced in greater Numbers.

[hasegawa]

After around 100 MiG 1 build in 1941 this was the first in greater numbers produced fighter aircraft from Mikoyan and Gurevich... 3322 where build. This MiG was not easy to fly and only good as an interceptor above 6.000 Meter. But on the eastern Front most of the combat was well under 5000 meters, where the MiG 3 was inferior to the Messerschmitt Bf 109F-2. The Production was cancelled in favor for the Ilyushin Il 2 Shturmovik and a tantrum by Stalin, about the slow production of Il 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-3

[Charl]

Forward visibility must've been awful, sitting that far back.
How quickly things moved at that time, the mighty YAK-3 was developed at the same time, although deployment was delayed.

[hasegawa]

Correct. The view over the long Mikulin AM 35F-Engine was not the best and the ground handling is a chapter by itself. You see nearly nothing

[Splitpin]

Very nice , I do love the lines of the 3 .... very purposeful .
Great shots

[hasegawa]

Thank You.
It is "the first MiG" with a significant number in combat. Mikoyan and Gurevich came from the Polikarpov Design Bureau. The last aircraft they build together was the MiG 17...

[jankees]

excellent shots I must say

[Kiwia1spad]

Superb Shots... i always did like the lines of the Mig-3, I believe there has been a couple restored in the last few years and flying again, one in Russia, and Jerry Yagen in the USA has one aparently... BUt what i want to know is what sim and model is this one?

[hasegawa]

Sorry. Your question is understandable and here it is from the Designers of Shturmovik and Sturmovik FB

1C-Games "Battle over Moscow"
https://il2sturmovik.com/about/#5

It is a hardcore-battlesim, part 2 of
"Battle over Stalingrad" sommer, autumn und winter 1942 to the end of the 6th german army january 1943
"Battle over Moscow" autumn and winter 1941/42,
and "Battle over Kuban" spring/sommer 1943

Every of them can be used as a Stand-alone-Product, but to see the complete story it is not a bad idea to have them all. It is not a must for the typical simmer, but for all virtual pilots that want to fly over the Eastern Front of WWII it is simply the reference, because there is no other option. One point must be sad and I am a fan of good documentation, but this lacked completely. There is Forum in English, German and Russian that do its best to give the information needed and reaction time is about 2 hours but the Fans can not always do the job of the designers. I have written this in my review about "Battle of Kuban" for the german speaking FS-Magazin (Flight Simulator-Magazin) and this Article is in the Plus-Form online after the next Paper-Magazin is out. If you want I write with permission of the Editor-in-chief of the FS-Magazin, Mr. Groner, a summary for you all here under Reviews if you have not enough from my bad english...
It has an option for online-fighting also, but I have no use for it, because I didn´t want to fly with this guys, that misunderstood historical correct simulation with just "another shooting game."

I flow first in the "Battle over Kuban" and step by step I have bought the other parts. I still want to buy some of the collector aircraft, The Lavochkin La-5FN, Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6, Yakovlev Yak 1b... the rest is in my inventory. I am not always happy. some of the german aircraft have the tendency to break out on take off, like the original, typical for the Bf 109, the fixing of the tailwheel failed and it resulted in a crash with the beautiful german nickname "Ringelpiez". With my Thrustmaster" T.1600 and no pedals I cant stemm against this...

Today the italian Macchi M.C. 202 "Folgore" came into my inventory, the finest aircraft of italian design in WWII, that has been flown in small numbers in to combat also on the eastern front over Moscow and maybe (must look) Stalingrad.