The Polikarpov I-16 (Russian: Поликарпов И-16) is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such "introduced a new vogue in fighter design". [2] .

2021年3月9日 · The Type 17 was never exported, but fought in the ground attack role against Japaneses in the Nomothan incident, against Finns in the Winter War and against Germans in 1941/42, during the Great Patrioctic War.

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The I-16 Type 17 of Grigoriy Sergeyevich Zhuikov, commander of a squadron of the 191 IAP that defended Leningrad on September 1941. He obtained 7 victories flying on I-16s. The plane is often represented in profiles as having a red 8 outlined in white on its tail.

I-16 type 17 with M-25V engine . It was a variation of type 10 with the replacement of wing-mounted ShKAS machine guns with ShVAK cannons. The cannons are fed through the sleeves laid behind the first fuselage frame, and further along the front spar of the center section.

伊-16战斗机（英文：I-16 Fighter [1]）是20世纪30年代苏联研制装备的一型下单翼单座螺旋桨战斗机。 伊-16战斗机，采用悬臂式下单翼，可收放起落架的战斗机，是世界上第一架低单翼的硬壳结构战斗机，并率先使用收放式起落架和变距螺旋桨等新的民用飞机技术。 它代表了两次大战之间的空战概念的变化，兼有新旧机型的特色，如旧机的开放式座舱和粗短机身，新机的下单翼构造和收放式起落架，反映了第一次世界大战时的空战思想 [11]。 伊-16战斗机作为苏联空军主力 战斗 …

The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to have attained operational status and as such "introduced a new vogue in fighter design." [1] .

从17型开始有部分飞机装备20mm机关炮，在卫国战争初期，装20mm机炮的I-16在IL-2强击机未大批装备部队前，在攻击地面德军行军纵队和装甲目标时充作强击机使用。

2021年4月29日 · I-16 Type 17 - Provision for six 82mm rockets; 2 x 20mm cannons in place of standard machine guns; reinforced structure throughout.

2019年8月21日 · I-16 type 17. WWII Soviet Fighter. One of the first monoplane fighter aircraft with retractable landing gear was the I-16, developed in the N.N. Polikarpov Design Bureau. The maiden flight was in December 30, 1934. “Type 17” modification with 2 ShVAK cannons and 2 ShKAS MG armament and M-25 engine was in production in 1937-1939.