Yakovlev Yak-15
The Yakovlev Yak-15 (originally given the designation Type-2 by US intelligence, and later the NATO reporting name Feather) was an early Soviet jet fighter, and the lightest operational jet fighter ever built. It retained the wings, tail-wheel undercarriage, rear fuselage, and tail unit of the all-metal piston-engined Yak-3U. It was powered by a copy of the German axial-flow Junkers Jumo 004B turbojet engine, designated RD-10. The powerplant was installed in the nose with the exhaust under the wing. In this way, pilots were given an easy introduction to jet engines.
About 280 were built.
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Specifications (Yak-15)
General characteristics
- Crew: one, pilot
Performance
- Thrust/weight: 0.36
Armament
- Guns: 2× 23 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 machine guns with 60 rounds each
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