The Tiny Fighter That Terrified The Luftwaffe: Yakovlev Yak-3

In this video, we talk about the Yakovlev Yak 3, a late-World War 2 Soviet Union fighter aircraft made as an improvement to the early war Yak 1 fighter and a plane that is, arguably, the best fighter made over the course of the war. We first talk about how the Yak 3 was not sequentially named like normal, despite it being derivative of the Yak 1, and how the Yak-1 design evolved over three plus years to the Yak 1M variant and into the Yak 3 proper. We look at what differentiated the Yak 1 and Yak 3, and what made the Yak 3 a superior fighter aircraft.

We then look at the combat history of the Yak-3, mainly going against German Bf 109G's and Fw 190's, and its overall excellent performance, being considered so dangerous that the Luftwaffe would recommend to its pilots that they avoid the Yak-3 in low-altitude combat, owing to the Yak-3's superior speed and maneuverability. We also look at a small French unit (Normandie-Niemen) that piloted the Yak-3 and saw substantial success with it. We end by looking at a couple Yak-3 variants that attempted to boost their already excellent performance with new engines, going so far as two jet fighter variants known as the Yak-15 and Yak-17.

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