Updated on April 5, 2005
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This profile represents an example of an unknown unit, Moscow front, winter
1941/42.
It appears partially dismounted, and this creates some difficulty in
drawing the camo scheme, that appears to have been partially field repainted.
Its characteristics look to be:
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it is a late type aircrafte, with slats, starter tooth and radio devices
(the wire looks visible near the stabilizer, even if the mast is dismounted);
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the camo scheme looks to have partially repainted on the field, on the
base of a standard green/black scheme: we see unusually soft and irregular
undersurface demarcation line on the nose and sides;
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there looks to be a roughly painted red 17 on the tail, parallel to the
ground line; the tail star looks absent;
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it is armed with underwing rockets;
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it looks to have regular doors at the tail wheel.
