#mig-3

The Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 page from the souvenir booklet, Photographs of Combat Planes - 1942.

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Despite being one of the fastest Soviet piston-engine designs in the early years of the war, the MiG-3 was dogged by less-than-stellar handling characteristics and was genuinely still outclassed by German counterparts in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 series. The system was also woefully under-armed in its early versions and was relegated to bomber escort and close-support duty during its tenure. Eventually, the system would give way to the more capable Lavochkin series of radial engined platforms even though some 3,400 examples of the MiG-3 were to be produced.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3

MiG-3 at Levashovo airfield, Leningrad region, November 1941.

Italeri 1/72 scale.