The Yakovlev Yak-3 was a single-engine, single-seat World War II Soviet fighter. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by both pilots and ground crew. One of the smallest and lightest combat fighters fielded by any combatant during the war, its high power-to-weight ratio gave it excellent performance and it proved to be a formidable dogfighter.
Lighter and smaller than the Yak-9 but powered by the same engine, the Yak-3 was a forgiving, easy-to-handle aircraft loved by both novice and experienced pilots. It was robust, easy to maintain and a highly successful dog-fighter. It was used mostly as a tactical fighter, flying low over battlefields and engaging in dogfights below 4,000 m (13,000 ft).
The first 197 Yak-3 were lightly armed with a single motornaya pushka-mount 20 mm (0.79 in) ShVAK cannon and one 12.7 mm (0.50 in) UBS synchronized machine gun, with subsequent aircraft receiving a second UBS for a weight of fire of 2.72 kg (6.0 lb) per second using high-explosive ammunition. All armament was installed close to the axis of the aircraft with a cannon mounted in the engine "vee" firing through the propeller boss, synchronised machine guns in the fuselage, helping accuracy and leaving wings unloaded.
Marcel Albert, a World War II French ace who flew the Yak-3 in the USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft to the P-51D Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire. It was also flown by Polish Air Forces (of the Polish People's Army formed in USSR) and the Yugoslav Air Force, after the war.
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The Black Sun crime syndicate from the Star Wars expanded universe seems cool. Space pirates are my jam so I imagine they're not expanded on in any meaningful way and focus is instead shifted to Luke or Han.
They have books mostly about them. One is a heist book where Han does oceans 11 against them. It goes into their organization pretty well and their ties to a corrupt imperial. I’d avoid the one about Xizor being a creep though.
Anything about just their members just doing crime and shit though? I don't want to read about Han, I want to know about these folks instead.
Hmm, I don’t recall tbh but I’ll go through wookipedia and see if there’s anything solely from their POV. I have a feeling you might have to go into the comics for that though unless a multiple POV switching around counts.
Ok, so the best I’ve found is that they have a lot of background “rise to power” stuff in the bounty hunter war trilogy. This has piqued my curiosity tho since they are so present in my memory of the EU and don’t seem to have a dedicated book POV. I’ll update again if I find anything better.
Thanks.
The zombies shit seems like it would be fun and cool too, way better than the Yuuzhan Vong which people have told me were basically a stand-in for space barbarian muslims :yikes: the galaxy being invaded by a zombie plague should have taken it's place.
I don’t get how they are meant to Muslim. They’re religious zealots that hate technology and cut themselves off from the force by being ridiculously into torturing themselves. Mostly their thing biotech like having swords that are actually bioengineered snakes. It’s as exactly silly as it sounds, but they kick off the event by establishing their scouting force as legitimate threat by dropping a moon.
Idk, I kinda see how religious warriors as the enemy can be seen as being against Muslims if read through the early 2000s lens, but the original idea was laid out in the late 90s by the planning boards. If anyone remembers something I don’t that makes a more clear case I would be interested.
Hmm, that seems better. The way it was explained to me is that it had a post-9/11 vibe to it that got uncomfortable.
It’s not entirely wrong, but one has to keep in mind that there over 20 books alone with many authors. I don’t doubt there is at least one author who tried to make it that way, a book set on a desert planet where the locals do an anti droid pogrom under a deep cover agent’s influence, stands out as coming to mind now that I think about it more.
It’s pretty easy to skip books though, if you like Star Wars there is a lot to enjoy in the series. The first one I read was like almost near the end and it worked out. The opening section of vector prime alone is worth reading because it’s basically a horror movie.
Lots of unintentional criticisms of liberal ideology in the sections where Leia does political stuff to stop a deeply misguided leader from tanking the war effort through appeasement.