ha ha ha In January 1943, his regiment converted to Lend-Lease Bell P-39 Airacobras. Soviet pilots liked this aircraft, and found it quite competitive with the Messerschmitt Bf-109 and superior to the Focke-Wulf FW-190 at the low air combat altitudes common on the Eastern Front. Pokryshkin enjoyed the 37 mm cannon's destructive firepower, as well as the two upper nose-mounted .50 caliber machine guns, synchronized to fire through the propellor (airscrew), in addition to the pair of .30 caliber machine guns mounted in each wing, outside the propeller arc and therefore unsynchronized. He claimed that the cannon's trigger, positioned at the top of the joystick, was impossible to push without moving the pilot's hand, which made the aircraft deviate from the gunsight, so finally he had his regiment's aircraft rigged so that a single button simultaneously fired cannon and machine guns. In his memoirs he describes many enemy aircraft immediately disintegrating upon being hit by a salvo. Pokryshkin and his regiment were repeatedly asked to convert to new Soviet fighters such as the La-5 and Yak-3. However, Pokryshkin found Yak-3's firepower insufficient, and personally disliked Yakovlev, so the squadron remained with the P-39's. Pokryshkin subsequently cancelled his regiment's conversion, and there are multiple reports that they instead began flying the Bell P-63 Kingcobra. Through the Lend-Lease agreement with United States, the Soviet Union was not allowed to use P-63s against Germany; they were given only to be used in the eventual battle with Japan. Thus it is quite understandable that no mention of this appears in any official records. However, personal accounts of German pilots and flak crewmen who encountered P-63s in the skies of Eastern Prussia as well as in the memoirs of one of the pilots in Pokryshkin's squadron. It is reported that 9th IAD was given approximately 36 P-63s but these were not used while the fighting was still in progress.[11] tu bent skaitai ka postini nabage? -- t. "Audrys" <kokskienoreikalaskokiadeze@takas.lt> wrote in message news:olf835$e9d$1@trimpas.omnitel.net... > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pokryshkin#Aircraft_flown_by_Pokryshkin > meluoji. tvarteliniai visada meluoja > > "Poltorak" wrote in message news:olf597$bks$1@trimpas.omnitel.net... > > "geroj saveckogo sojuza" Pokryskin skraide vien amerikoniskais > naikintuvais > > "Kindziulis" <k@kinija.lt> wrote in message > news:olf08e$6cg$2@trimpas.omnitel.net... >> nugalejo CCCP pilieciai, o ne "vien tik rusai" >> >> Tomas wrote: >> >>> Tu tuom tkriausiai nori pasakyt, kad didiji tevynes kara aukodami savo >>> gyvybes laimejo visai ne rusai? >>> >>> "Gintas" <nesvarbu@gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:oles42$301$1@trimpas.omnitel.net... >>>> Ar tik tuom nenori pasakyk, kad Lietuvos kariuomeneje tarnauja >>>> isskirtinai grynaveisliai lietuviai? >>>> >>>> >>>> "arunazz" <nera@nera.gov> schrieb im Newsbeitrag >>>> news:olerms$2js$1@trimpas.omnitel.net... >>>>> zapad2017 netoli, o buriatai jau ten: >>>>> https://tinyurl.com/ydyduw7v >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >> >