Why Stalin was lied to about Polikarpov's best fighter | I-185

Легенды Неба - истории самолётов на русском

Nikolai Polikarpov, creator of the legendary I-15 and I-16, was the Soviet Union's chief fighter designer by the mid-1930s. After a series of tragedies involving the I-180 and the betrayal of his own employees, who stole the I-200 design, which later became the MiG-1, Polikarpov lost his factory, hi