IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad--- LAGG-3 Bomber Intercept

Another video of a sortie I did playing one of the single player campaigns that comes with the game.

Back in the day of the old IL-2 1946, this aircraft was my favorite Russian fighter to fly. I'm not sure why. Perhaps I just liked the look of it or the fact that it had pretty good armament for its time. It was and still is a difficult aircraft to fly due to its weight and under-powered engine. It is not an aircraft that climbs well or turns well, especially when up against the Bf109s and Focke Wulfs. My own personal preference for tactics is to surprise opponents (offline and online) with a "Boom & Zoom" attacks. Hit them hard and get out quick. This plane does this particular thing well in the dive.

It can also take a beating due to its heavy and hard airframe.

In this particular mission of the campaign, I am ordered to take two wingmen and patrol along a known air corridor the Germans use to move Bomber formations into Stalingrad area of operations. Sometimes the formations have escorts, sometimes they do not. I'm really hoping this time they have no escort.

Now these particular LAGG-3s we are are piloting have experimental armament fixed on them in the form of one 12.7mm machine gun and one 37mm cannon. We are being sent to test these configurations out on any German bombers we run across.

See you online.