+1, just because it would be fun to see a La or a Yak tearing off the plywood covering the wings in a high G pull up
This was an historic problem that plagued the Russian plywood coverings on La and Yak wings. This made me think about all the complaints concerning the Yak3 having armor plating like a Tiger2. Did some testing offline with La5\7, Yak 3\9u, Mossi6 and P47-D40 as a control. I single shot all of these planes in the drone circle from 200yds with the P39Q 37mm, Yak 9T 37mm, Ta 152 30mm, K4 30mm and the P39-D 20mm.
All shooting was into the rear of the fuselage to test the kill ability of the round.
1. - 37mm US and Ru - One shot destroyed all fighters.
2. - 30mm - One shot destroyed all fighters with the exception of the Yak3 one time took an oil hit then second 30mm destroyed it. I shot at the Yak3 for testing one extra time after each time I shot down the other planes as a comparison. The oil hit, then second round killing the Yak3 occurred only once during this.
3. - 20mm - up to 5 shots was the maximum of 20mm for any plane and that was the P47 most of the time. Average for the La5\7 was 2, Yak-9u was 2, Mossi6 was 3 and the Yak 3 all over the place, sometimes 2 and up to 5 at times.
I performed an additional test with the 20mm of shooting sub 200. All planes went down 1-2 rounds, with the Russian planes going down with single hits. Seems 200 and beyond has some effect on the effectiveness of rounds. The La5\7 and Yak 3\9u at 200 were easy to miss with all the cannon round types slipping past the fuselage or over the wings. Then considering the small cross section and my observation about 200 yards, it's quite easy to think the Yak3 has Tiger2 armor plating. Also depending on where in the 200 distance showing from the icon, I ran into at least once the La5\7 needing 5 rounds to take them down and the Yak 3\9u.