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Re: Armored windscreens?
But many types did't have any protection- i.e. fighters of generation '40 - MiG-1/3, LaGG-3 and Yak-1. Even in 1942 Yak-7As and Bs lacked the armoured windscreen protection - it appeared on late Yak-7s or on early Yak-9s. Yak-3 also had only curved plate of plastic. The same with La-5.
If you have the close photo of canopy and windscreen taken from a side it's quite easy to recognize if armoured glass is present.
It may be the lack of materials - but I think more important were drawbacks of technology. Soviets had problems even with keeping good quality of unarmoured canopies - they used to become yellowish and started to crack. That's why many pilots of MiGs (the very important factor in this case was the impossibility of opening the canopy at high speed) and LaGGs, or even some Yaks later in the war were flying without canopies. And this was the reason of changing the windscreen in MiG-3 - 3 plates - in MiG-1 it was made of one plate.
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