The hypothesis of Stalin's preparation of the strike against Germany in July 1941 has not been disproved by history so far. It is on the basis of this assumption about the planning of Stalin's attack on Germany (and further for the “liberation” of the Western countries), adopted at the “historical” plenary session of the CPU Central Committee in August 1939, that this fact of the sale of advanced German equipment and technology in the USSR seems to be understandable for this or that other time. A large delegation of Soviet airplanes, which twice went to Germany shortly before the war, received fighter jets, bombers, guidance systems, and much more, which made it possible to sharply advance the level of domestic aircraft construction. It was decided to increase the combat power of aviation, because it was in August 1939 that the Soviet Union began to mobilize and prepare for strikes against Germany and Romania.
Mutual exchange of information on the state of the armed forces of the three countries (England, France and the USSR), presented in Moscow in August 1939, i.e., before the beginning of the partition of Poland, showed that the number of first-line aircraft in France is 2,000. Two-thirds of them were quite modern aircraft. By 1940, it was planned to increase the number of planes in France to 3000 units. According to Marshal Bennett's statement, the English aviation had about 3000 units, and the potential possibility of producing 700 planes per month.
German industry underwent mobilization only in early 1942, after which the number of weapons began to rise sharply.
4. Recent preparations.
Of all the domestic fighter planes ordered by Stalin, the most successful variants were LA GGG, MiG and Yak.
The IL-2 attack aircraft delivered a lot of excitement to its designer Ilyushin. Made initially with the protection of the rear hemisphere (two-seater), he, on the eve of the attack on Germany, did not suit customers with its “wastefulness”. S. Ilyushin, who did not know all the plans of Stalin, was forced to change the design to a single-seat version, i.e. to bring the structure closer to the plane “clean sky”. Hitler broke Stalin's plans and the plane had to be urgently returned to the original design at the beginning of the war.
On February 25, 1941, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars adopted a resolution “On reorganization of the Red Army aviation forces”. The resolution provided for additional measures to re-equip the aircraft parts. In accordance with the plans of the future war, the task was set to urgently form new air regiments, and to equip them, as a rule, with new vehicles. The formation of several airborne corps began.
The doctrine of war in the “foreign territory” and “small blood” caused the appearance of the aircraft “clear sky”, designed for unpunished attacks on bridges, airfields, cities and factories. Before the war hundreds of thousands of young men were preparing to move to a new, developed by the Stalinist competition, SU-2 aircraft, which was planned to produce 100-150 thousand pieces before the war. This required accelerating training of the corresponding number of pilots and technicians of “one flight”. SU-2, in essence, the “jackal plane”, both in Germany (Yu-87) and in Russia, did not stand the test of time, because the “clear sky” for either country was not there during the war.
Air defense zones with fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery were established. An unprecedented call to aviation began, voluntarily and forcibly. Almost all the small number of civil aviation was mobilized in the Air Force. Dozens of air schools were opened, including ultra-accelerated (3-4 months) training, and traditionally the officers at the helm or handle of the aircraft were replaced by sergeants — a fact that is unusual and testifies to the rush in the preparation of the war. The airfields /about 66 airfields along the borders were urgently moved to the borders! /The fuel, bombs and shells were imported. The raids on the German airfields and the Priest oilfields were carefully and in special secrecy detailed...
On June 13, 1940, the Flight Testing Institute (FTI) was established, during the same period other design bureaus and research institutes were established.