/Airplanes/Allies/USSR/01-Fighters/I-16/I-16(Type5).htm | Up-dated: 08-12-2021

 

160th Reserve Air Regiment - June 1941.
Type 4 with a streamlined and tapered engine cowling, Shvetsov M-25 engine with 700 hp. 2 prototypes tested with M-62 engine as well.
Mass-produced.

 

 

 

Evaluation tests in the NII VVS.

 

 

 

"For the VKPb/Free oppressed" - Baltic Fleet
Aircraft was modernized at airfield, with changed cockpit and equipped with ski-undercarriage.

 

 

 

Far East. End of 1930s.

 

 

 

25th IAP, captured by Finns in December 1939.
The plane modified for M-62 engine and four machine-guns and ski-undercarriage.

 

 

 

1st AE, 21st IAP - Winter war, winter 1940.
The plane modified for M-62 engine and four machine-guns

 

 

I-16 Type 5 Specifications

Type: Fighter
Crew: 1

Shvestov M-25 engine | 700 hp | Pistons
Dimensions/Masses
Length: 5.85 m | Width: 9.00 m | Height: 2.57 m
Weight: 1336 kg | Max. Combat Weight: 1726 kg
Performances
Max. Speed: 435 km/h | Ceiling: 8230 m | Range: 800 km
Armament

MG: 2 x 7.62mm PV-1 MG
Rockets: 6 x RS-82 rockets

 

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