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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"Stephen Harding" wrote in message ... Was looking at a reference page for the Yak-9 where it mentioned a model Yak-9DD which had extra fuel tanks installed for a range of up to just under 1400 miles. The stated purpose was for the escort of American bombers attacking Romanian oil fields. While the many raids against Ploesti are well known, I've never heard of Soviet fighter escort for American bombers during any of them, or other attacks elsewhere. In fact, I don't think that many bomber raids against Axis targets even originated from Soviet controlled territory throughout the war, so it would seem a special version of Yak-9 to do long range escort would be unlikely. What about long range Soviet attacks requiring the services of an enhanced range fighter? Seems long range bombing was pretty much a British/US activity. The Soviets had a handful of long range bombers. The Petlyakov Pe-8 was a 4 engined bomber with a range of 2300 miles carrying 8000lbs of bombs. They took part in at least one raid on Berlin in August 1941 but they mostly seem to have been used as long range VIP transports. Molotov flew from Moscow to Washington in one IRC. Keith They were made one at a time and were extremely rare items. One would need the entire production run for a medium to small sized raid. |
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