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1/48 Yakovlev Yak-1 Battle of Stalingrad
The Yakovlev Yak-1 was a low-wing fighter/fighter-bomber designed by OKB 115 headed by Aleksandr Sergeevic Jakovlev[N 1] and developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1940s.
With its wooden wings and steel tube skeleton, the Yak-1 was an agile, maneuverable, and, just as importantly, easy to maintain and reliable aircraft.[3] It turned out to be the best fighter in service in the Voenno-vozdušnye sily (V-VS), the Soviet Air Force, at the time of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, when it found itself being used against the pressing German war effort by helping, over the next twelve months, to stem the advance of the invaders while fighting in an unfavorable strategic situation. However, it was the Soviet fighter that, by far, suffered the greatest losses in combat against the Luftwaffe.
The Yak-1 was the progenitor of a family of models that would be produced, over the course of the conflict, in more than 37,000 examples.