The Yakovlev Yak-3 was a single-engine, single-seat World War II Soviet fighter. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by both pilots and ground crew. One of the smallest and lightest combat fighters fielded by any combatant during the war, its high power-to-weight ratio gave it excellent performance and it proved to be a formidable dogfighter.
Lighter and smaller than the Yak-9 but powered by the same engine, the Yak-3 was a forgiving, easy-to-handle aircraft loved by both novice and experienced pilots. It was robust, easy to maintain and a highly successful dog-fighter. It was used mostly as a tactical fighter, flying low over battlefields and engaging in dogfights below 4,000 m (13,000 ft).
The first 197 Yak-3 were lightly armed with a single motornaya pushka-mount 20 mm (0.79 in) ShVAK cannon and one 12.7 mm (0.50 in) UBS synchronized machine gun, with subsequent aircraft receiving a second UBS for a weight of fire of 2.72 kg (6.0 lb) per second using high-explosive ammunition. All armament was installed close to the axis of the aircraft with a cannon mounted in the engine "vee" firing through the propeller boss, synchronised machine guns in the fuselage, helping accuracy and leaving wings unloaded.
Marcel Albert, a World War II French ace who flew the Yak-3 in the USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft to the P-51D Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire. It was also flown by Polish Air Forces (of the Polish People's Army formed in USSR) and the Yugoslav Air Force, after the war.
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“I would visit China but only if there were no chinese there”
:what-the-hell:
once saw a reddit comment on some natural landscape post in china
unironically was like "man china is so beautiful, if only it could be free of the chinese"
:geordi-no: man china is so beautiful, if only it could be free of the chinese
:geordi-yes: man america is so beautiful, if only it could be free of the americans
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I just learned to make peace with past Cherufe and the fact that future Cherufe will probsbly look back to this moment and cringe
Typically the few times I think I've gotten it figured out, I was in fact making horrendous mistakes. So yea
all the fucking time. ADHD makes me extremely impulsive, my life is defined by "why the fuck did I do that? I should have stopped for 2 seconds and thought"
You ever have an issue where someone will text you while you’re doing something and so you think “I’ll respond to this later” but then you forget so it’s like two months later and you’re wondering why all your friends are drifting away from you and then you look at your phone and it’s full of unresponded to texts? I need to work on that, I’m not a very good friend
Lmao imagine how dire things would have to be “yes we sold one of our uh assets, here’s the 3 boxes of .22 bullets we got for it”
Everyone getting banned for posting news about teslas fucking uo lol
There was at least one post about this already but if you missed them...
If Abraham Lincoln didn’t have the seats in congress to abolish slavery, so he instead did it by executive order and enforced that law, overriding the Supreme Court, would you have been against that?
Yes, because dictatorships are bad.
The first person to tweet made it their pinned tweet with the comment...
Liberals are a scourge on humanity.
I often think about something :amber: said a while ago, which was basically
“Communities” are often incredibly reactionary. Most improvements in civil rights in the US have not been from the local community level, but have been imposed top down from the federal level. You know what they call community justice in most of the country? Lynchings.
There gets to a point with Reddit when you realize how little people actually know despite typing out paragraphs with links attached. Started noticing this when they discuss Latin Americas issues and say it goes back to the Aztecs, even though the Aztecs were one of many civilizations in Mexico. And it just gets worse from there.
I think it appears everyone is alright, but one family is out of their homes now
:sadness:
I’ve said it 3 times already, this isnt how i’d want to meet my neighbors.
I know, it’s just the reality here, we’ve come together and are trying to help the one family now out a home.
So I'm coming around to the fact that I'm disabled mentally and how fucked that means I am here in the USA. It's bad enough there's no help for physical ones and mental health is a joke. FUCK ME.
Every once in a while i see an article titled something like “Is the US headed for a recession?” But like, did the last one ever even end?
technically speaking it did, but in terms of the cost of living and people's financial security it never recovered
If people’s economic power didn’t recover, what does it mean that the recession ended?
This isn’t snark I genuinely don’t really know what a recession is besides “Oof, economy broke”
so the definition of a recession is when the economy shriks rather than grows, and to leave one you have yo have like 2-3 years of continued growth. the growth returned, the standard of living did not. part of this is that China bounced back better than the west and so the pool of people who can afford treats in China has massively grown, increasing the demand for them in China and thus the cost. where wages also contiuned to stagnate in the west even when growth returned and so we all stayed poor and shell shocked from 08 economically
