CONTINUATION OF THE BESTSELLER "FOUGHT ON "COFFINS "! "" Flying Guaranteed Coffin" - this is how the "Stalinist falcons" nicknamed LaGG-3, which at the beginning of the war was considered the main "fighter of a new type," but inferior to the "messers" in all respects. Obviously, both the MiG-3 and even the Yak-1 lost to the enemy, not to mention the outdated "ishaks" and "gulls." (How can one not recall the words of the commander of the Red Army Air Force Pavel Rychagov addressed to Stalin, which cost him his life: "You make us fly on "coffins"!"). Contrary to the pre-war "dizziness from success" and propaganda hype, the "Stalinist falcons" could not fight the Luftwaffe on equal terms - from the first days of the war, the "experts" of the Fuhrer seized undivided dominance in the air, and our military aviation, which was three times larger than the enemy, demonstrated complete incapacity and by the end of 1941 was knocked out by 90%, which cannot be justified either by the "surprise" of the enemy strike, or by the airfields "oversleeping" the war.