German designations of Soviet aircraft types

[Boris Ciglic]

I asked this already some time ago and now can't find it in my archive nor in my previous threads, it was possily at old TOCH. Which Soviet types were designated I-17 and I-18 by the Germans?
Cheers,
Boris

[yogybär]

A usefull answer in another forum from a guy called "Denniss":
"
Polikarpov I-17
http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmd/dtf/poz19.htm
http://www.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/I-17/index.html

Some more info regarding I-series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_military...gnation_systems

Polikarpov I-180
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_I-180

I-26 = Yak-1
I-61/I-200 = MiG-1
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[Boris Ciglic]

Thank you!

[Andrey Dikov]

I-17 - it seems Yak
I-18 - seems MiG-3
I-180 - seems I-16 of late versions and, especially, its seems cannon-armed (in wings)
I-26 - yes, it seems Yak
I-61 - yes, MiG

But anyway, according to my experience in research, Germans called all modern narrow-nosed fighters as I-18s most often and made extremely many errors. So it doesn't matter if it called I-18 or I-17 or I-26 - it still could be MiG, Yak or LaGG.

[Boris Ciglic]

Thanks Andrey,
it thought so as well,
Boris

[Andy Fletcher]

I-17 - ?
I-18 - MiG-1 or MiG-3
I-22 - LaGG-1
I-26 - Yak-1
I-61 - MiG-1
I-180 - Yak-7
I-200 - MiG-1
I-301 - LaGG-3

Note that the German designations are not always accurate, some don't match with the actual Soviet designations.

Regards

Andy Fletcher

[Andrey Dikov]

I-180

Still, I would insist, that in that cases I compared the files of both sides, Germans fought with late-version and cannon-armed I-16s, and sometimes even with P-40. Not narrow-nosed a/c.

[NBE1942]

I would rather agree with Andrey. I-180 was an often misidentification of early La-5s...Though, I faced occasions on which I-180 appeared to be various Yak modifications.