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Originally Posted by mayfair35
However, these P-39s were unlike ours. All the armor plate was removed, all the guns except the 37 mm cannon were removed, and all the radio equipment had been taken out.
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Thank you very much for very interesting post.
You are right, the Russians "re-manufactured" their P-39s into the other aircraft. In 1944 they published their own Russian-language maintenance manual for the P-39s. This is general purpose document which does not differentiate the Airacobra variants. This manual confirms all your words. No armor plates, no radio, entire technical culture of P-39 maintenance is reduced mainly to the hammer, rivet and brake press for propeller straightening.
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E.