and 16 main fighters of the red army air force until 1941 , precisely for their creation by nikolai polikarpov at one time. earned a reputation as the king of fighters. among the later machines, the high-altitude fighter mikoyan and gurevich first took off in 1940. during the war years, he was the main night fighter of our air force at the height of the mig-3 developed speed 640 km/h. built about 3.200 copies. the front-line fighter yak-9u i made its first flight by nine in 1942. the yakovlev machine is one of the aircraft on which the french pilots of the normandy neman aviation regiment fought, the presented yak-9u appeared at the end of the forty- third year, becoming one of the most advanced modifications of fighters, and in total about 17.000 aircraft designer sergei vladimirovich ilyushin il-10m, the result of the modernization of the attack aircraft. il-10 first flight, on it in july 1951 the legendary vladimir made as a different, and the il-10 itself is a member of the great patriotic war and world war ii, the basic version of the attack aircraft took off in april 1944 in april 45 il-