VL Pyorremyrsky

During WWII, the Finnish government repeatedly tried to reduce the impact of the import of military equipment in the technical state of the Finnish forces, since in war conditions such a dependence could be very dangerous. Therefore, in 1942 the Finnish Air Force received an order to provide a specification for a single-seat fighter, and in 1943 the development of prototype had begun. The prototype of the single-seat, single-engine fighter performed its first flight in November 1945, but wasn’t officially accepted in to service. The fighter can develop a maximum speed up to 640 km/h and has decent maneuverability. The armament of the aircraft consists of one 20mm cannon and two 12.7mm machine guns placed under the engine hood.