"Russian fighter aces on the Lend-Lease. Part C Cobra" Topic

Russian fighter aces on the Lend-Lease. Part C Cobra
Fighters "Airacobra" as well as "Hurricanes" from "Tomahawks" in the Soviet Union supplied specifically British. Once the "Cobra" was removed from service in the RAF they December 1941 were offered in conjunction with the "Hurricanes" for supply to Russian Alliance.

The first of the "Cobra". I Allied convoys to Murmansk were sent in December 1941, with all this part of the fighters lost in transit. According to the British, the carriage by sea had lost 49 tanks (according to another disk imaging — 54) of "Cobra". I, but that the total number of lost fighter aircraft on the route from the United States to the Russian Union, including cuts from the U.S. to the UK. Loss of convoys PQ (from the UK to Murmansk) may be to estimate the subsequent way: if the number of cars shipped from the United Kingdom (212) to take away the amount of acquired Russian Union (December 1941 — 1, in 1942 — 192, according to the archives of the Head of Staff Air Force Russian army in 1943 — 2, according to the British) and take into account that in the USSR the first P-39D-2, K and L were received 12/11/1942 and 04/12/1942 in the amount of 4 pieces, then the total number of losses during shipping will be 20-25 aircraft.

Airplanes "Cobra" P-39D-2 ("Model 14A", Bell) in the USSR acted only through Iran, according to the "southern" route. Ships transporting boxes with fighters from Iceland or directly from the eastern U.S. ports with 2 routes: via Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, reddish and the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf to the port of Abadan (Iceland-Abadan — 12.5 thousand nautical miles, New York -Abadan — 15.6 thousand nautical miles), or around the Cape of Good Hope (22 and 23.5 thousand nautical miles, respectively). So longish route allies had to use at the end of 1942 after the crushing defeat of the PQ-17 and the overall growth of loss of cargo ships in the Arctic convoys to 11-12 percent. New routes pass through areas of absolute advantages allies in the air and at sea, or in general away from the war. The advantage of this route was the safety (reduction of losses in order to significantly fewest escort vessels), his severe disadvantage — Delivery of goods only to the "sea" step increased to 35 — 60 days."
link

That is really interesting stuff Robert. It is funny how some of the so-called inferior planes in the US arsenal were actually used to some success in other theaters.

One thing is also apparent: google translate needs to do a better job with Russian!

You noticed that huh? LOL. But yeah. The P-39 seems to have been most successful.Robert

Indeed Google still has problems with Russian translation, it is not only with English/Russian, but French/Russian and German/Russian. I once tried to use it to translate lyrics from French song into Russian, got a pile of uncomprehensive rubbish, tried French to English and at least understood a bit ;)

Coming back to subject, Russians more or less liked both Aerocobra and Kingcobra – navigation, nice strong radio, speed and armament were more than compensating for some problems in winter time and some piloting problems. Both Pokryshkin and Rechkalov were very successful, flying US fighters.

Lots of pics here:

link

Whats funny is that that site even isn't a Google translated page LOL. Robert