KOREA. IL2 SERIES - MODELS - Yak-9P

The Yak-9P fighter of the Yakovlev Design Bureau was the most advanced machine of the Yak-9 series created in 1946 (note that it can easily be confused with the up-gunned version from 1943, which was also called Yak-9P). With the end of the World War II, the severe shortage of materials that had accompanied the Soviet Union throughout the war years ended, and it was finally possible to create all-metal combat aircraft. The all-metal airframe is the main difference between the Yak-9P and its predecessor, the Yak-9U. In addition, the aircraft received a more advanced radio set, fixed loop radio compass, radio identification system, and additional fuel tanks in the outer part of the wing sections, which increased the fuel reserve and consequently the combat radius of the aircraft by one and a half times. The Yak-9P was produced for two years, from 1946 to 1948, but in the 1950s it was used extensively during the Korean War, demonstrating the much longer service life that all-metal aircraft can have. In 1949 and 1950, the Soviet Union transferred 79 Yak-9Ps to North Korea.
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