Thread: Polikarpov I-15
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Old 20th August 2014, 19:41
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Re: Polikarpov I-15

Thanks for the info. However, I have read that during the late summer of 1941 Soviet Army Air Force used even old I-5 trainers as ground attack planes against Germans. At that point the situation was so desperate and so many planes had been lost, that probably everything that flew was sent to stop Germans. This may have included some I-15īs as well although it may be very difficult to find info about them.

To my knowledge old I-15īs were not used in Winter War against Finland, although Finns regularly reported on encounters with I-15 - most probably they were all I-15 bis.
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