they were both from the nikolai polikarpov design bureau, who was... both deservedly called the kingof fighters. in 1939, they were given the polikarpov i-200 for modification, it was planned as a mass fighter with a speed of over 600 km/h, which at that time was simply an enormous speed, that is, the first high-speed fighter of the soviet union, so it received a new powerful am35 engine, which gave it a characteristic astro-nosed appearance, strongly. in general, one can say, it took root, pilots got used to it, highly valued its characteristic speed qualities, fighter maneuverability, gradually eliminated shortcomings, defects, the aircraft's armament was strengthened, to two shkaz machine guns of caliber 762 and one large-caliber bs of caliber 12.7 they added - a large-caliber bk, which were installed under the wings, here they were visible, here under the wings. they put two more machine guns, during the first battles the main drawback of the mi-3 was especially clearly manifested - this is the lack of armor glass in the cockpit cap, well, naturally, the losses were quite large,

outstanding, of course, thinkers who worked in the aviation industry. and they came from the design bureau of nikolai polikarpovf whom deservedly called the king of fighters. in the thirty-ninth year, they were given the polikarpov i-200 for revision, it was planned as a mass fighter with a speed of over 600 km / h, which at that time was simply an enormous speed, that is, the first high-speed fighter of the soviet union, so it received a new powerful engine am. 35, which gave it a characteristic astro-nose look, the pilot's cockpit was shifted back significantly, here it is in front of you, when the plane was improved, it became known as the mig-1, the main complaints of all military pilots, including the host country, turned out to be the range of the plane, although by the end of may 1940 it was launched into serial production, the air force leadership demanded... to install an additional fuel tank on it. as a result , the modernized mig-1, which made first flight on october 29, 1940, already in december of the same year, received the index big-3, completely replaced its ancestor in this series and was produ