History of development

The fighter was a single-seat, single-engine piston fighter produced and used by the Soviet Union in World War II. The Lager-3, along with the YaK-1 of the and the MiG-3 of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, gradually replaced the older I-153 and I-16 as the main combat aircraft of the Red Army Air Force fighter unit after the outbreak of war The Lagg-3 fighter was a single-seat, single-engine piston fighter produced and used by the Soviet Union in World War II [1]. The all-wooden aircraft with glued laminate has a slender fuselage, a single cockpit is centered, the wings are cantilever lower monoplane tips upside down, and the rear three-point landing gear can be retracted. The aircraft was derived from the Lagg-1 and flew successfully in March 1942. From 1941 to 1942, a total of 6258 aircraft were produced. By the time of the Great Counteroffensive in the winter of 1942, the aircraft had become the main aircraft of the first line of the Soviet Union