MiG-13
Introduction:
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-13 was a Soviet fighter aircraft developed as part of a crash program in 1944 to develop a high-performance fighter to counter German turbojet-powered aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Me-262. The Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau decided to focus on a design that used something more mature than the jet engine, which was still at an experimental stage in the Soviet Union, and chose a mixed-power solution with the VRDK motorjet powered by the Klimov VK-107 V12 engine. While quite successful when it worked, with a maximum speed of 820 km/h (510 mph) being reached during trials, production problems with the VRDK fatally delayed the program and it was canceled in 1948 as obsolete.
| MiG-13 Specification | ||
| Prime contractor: | Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau | |
| Country of origin: | Soviet Union | |
| Function: | Fighter | |
| Crew: | 1 | |
| Year: | 1945 (I-250) | |
| In-service year: | 1947 | |
| Power plant: | One 1,650 hp. Klimov VK-107R 12-cylinder radial liquid-cooled engin nd Khalshchevnikov VRDK booster |
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| Dimensions | ||
| Wing span: | 31 ft. 2 in. | 9.50 m. |
| Length: | 26 ft. 9 in. | 8.19 m. |
| Height: | 10 ft. 1 in. | 3.08 m. |
| Weight: | ||
| Empty | 6,457 lb. | 2,935 kg. |
| Max. takeoff | 8,096 lb. | 3,680 kg. |
| Performance | ||
| Ceiling: | 39,000 ft. | 11,900 m. |
| Speed: | 513 mph. | 825 km/h. |
| Range: | 1,129 miles | 1,818 km. |
| Armament | ||
| One VYa-23 23mm cannon and two UBS 12.7mm machine guns, or three B-20 30mm machine guns | ||
