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The Yakovlev Yak-1 (Jak-1) was a World War II Soviet single-seat fighter aircraft. Production of Yak-1 started in 1941 and ended in July 1944 with somewhere around 8,700 built. At the onset of Great Patriotic War on 22 June 1941, 425 Yak-1 were built. Armament: 1x 20 mm ShVAK cannon, 1x 12.7 mm Berezin UBS machine gun. Yak-1b - after October 1942, all Yak-1s were built to this standard. New bubble canopy with lowered rear fuselage, increased armor, ShKAS machine guns replaced with a single 12.7 mm Berezin UBS, electrical and pneumatic firing of the weapons instead of the mechanical system, new control stick based on the Messerschmitt Bf 109 design, new gunsight, airtight fuselage, retractable tailwheel, improved engine cooling, Klimov M-105PF engine with better low-altitude performance. The first flight took place in June 1942, with aircraft entering production in August. A total of 4,188 were built.
