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The Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 page from the souvenir booklet, Photographs of Combat Planes - 1942.

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1941 MiG 3 - Darryl Legg

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MiG-3 "For the Country"

Artist: Andrey Zhirnov

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1940 MIG-3 taking off from Mochische Airfield, Russia

Despite being one of the fastest Soviet piston-engine designs in the early years of the war, the MiG-3 was dogged by less-than-stellar handling characteristics and was genuinely still outclassed by German counterparts in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 series. The system was also woefully under-armed in its early versions and was relegated to bomber escort and close-support duty during its tenure. Eventually, the system would give way to the more capable Lavochkin series of radial engined platforms even though some 3,400 examples of the MiG-3 were to be produced.