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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Yakovlev Yak-9, Yakovlev Yak-40, Yakovlev Yak-1, Yakovlev Yak-42, Yakovlev Yak-3, Yakovlev Yak-38, Yakovlev Yak-141, Yakovlev Yak-7, Yakovlev Yak-15, Yakovlev Yak-12, Yakovlev Yak-130, Yakovlev Yak-25, Yakovlev Yak-11, Irkut MS-21, Gulfstream G200, Yakovlev Yak-55, Yakovlev Yak-28, Yakovlev Yak-17, Yakovlev Yak-18, Yakovlev Yak-23, Yakovlev Yak-52, Yakovlev Yak-19, Yakovlev Yak-200, Yakovlev Yak-30, Yakovlev UT-2, Yakovlev Yak-1000, Yakovlev Yak-50, Yakovlev Yak-16, Yakovlev UT-1, Yakovlev Yak-54, Yakovlev Yak-140, Yakovlev Yak-18T, Yakovlev Yak-27, Yakovlev Yak-24, Yakovlev Yak-44, Yakovlev Yak-32, Yakovlev Yak-8, Yakovlev Yak-58, Yakovlev Yak-6, Yakovlev Yak-53, Yakovlev AIR-1, Yakovlev Yak-36, Yakovlev Yak-77, Yakovlev Yak-48, Yakovlev Yak-60, Yakovlev UT-3, Yakovlev Yak-33, Technoavia SM-94, Yakovlev Yak-43, Yakovlev Yak-45, Yakovlev VVP-6, Yakovlev Pchela, Yakovlev Yak-46. Excerpt: The Yakovlev Yak-9 was a single-engine fighter aircraft used by the Soviet Union in World War II and after. Fundamentally a lighter development of the Yak-7 with the same armament, it arrived at the front at the end of 1942. The Yak-9 had a lowered rear fuselage decking and all-around vision canopy. Its lighter airframe gave the new fighter a flexibility that previous model had lacked. The pilots that flew it, regarded its performances at the same level of those of the Messerschmitt Bf 109G and Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3/A-4. The Yak-9 was the most mass-produced Soviet fighter of all time. It remained in production from 1942 to 1948, with 16,769 built (14,579 during the war). It was the first Soviet aircraft to shoot down a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet. It was used by North Korea in the Korean War. The Yak-9 represented further development of the successful Yakovlev Yak-7 fighter, a production version of the lightened Yak-7DI, taking full adva...
