Biography Korean pilots

There are no "super components" that Sutyan did not take! Soviet pilots participated in that war secretly, the name of Sutyagin did not know wide circles. Until the time, when it became possible to talk about his exploits out loud, the pilot did not live up the restless rear of Sutyan was born in Nizhny Novgorod, he graduated from the Gorky flying club. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, he was drafted into the army, sent to the Chernihiv military air school, and then to the deep rear, to the Far East.

This rear, however, could turn into an advanced at any moment. Manchuria was occupied by Japan in the year. In the year, the Red Army fought with the Japanese by Lake Hassan, in M ​​- near the Mongolian River Khalkhin -Gol, captain Nikolai Sutyan regiment, where Sergeant Sutyatin got in Primorye. Here the pilot met the future wife - gunsmith Raisa Baranova.

In the year, the pilots retrained from the obsolete "donkeys" to the "yaki". Sutyan - already a link commander, lieutenant - was eager for the front, but fate saved the pilot for another war. Photo: SOVIT -CES in Manchuria Sutyan completed 13 sorties for reconnaissance and free hunting, received the first award - the Order of the Red Star. He continued the service in Primorye - in the mf fighter regiment, which was included in the air division in the fall of the year.

She was commanded by an experienced pilot Georgy Lobov, who shot down 15 enemy aircraft on the Great Patriotic War. Sutyan mastered jet planes - yak and a moment - and was not an angel: in the year he received a reprimand on the party line for "drunkenness with a brawl" - he had a fight with an officer from the neighboring part.

The link of American "Sibers" in the Korean sky. The language of war in the fall of the year Korea, freed from the Japanese by the Red Army, was divided by parallels into the zones of Soviet and American influence. Soon two states arose on the peninsula: the Korean People's Democratic Republic in the North and the Republic of Korea in the south. In the summer of the year, a bloody war broke out between these states, a rapidly outgrown framework of civilian.

A little later, China and the USSR stood up for the North, although the participation of Soviet citizens in hostilities was not officially recognized. Our planes were based at Chinese airfields, carried Korean symbols. It was forbidden to cross the front line and fly over the territory occupied by the enemy in order to exclude Soviet pilots. The pilots wore Chinese uniforms, did not take documents on flight, but they took cheat sheets to talk in Korean.

During training flights, it is business but when American means of radio interception are only a moment! The Americans quickly realized the rendezvous on the Alley of MiGs that even the reactive f and f are inferior to Migami, and sent a new equipment to Korea - the F Saber jet fighters. The planes were comparable in power of the engines, but the “mi” was easier and therefore won in the speed and vertical maneuver, somewhat losing on horizontal.

Against the three guns of the “Mig”, “Seibr” had six 12.7 mm machine guns; The guns could be fired from meters, machine guns - with a “Mig” stood a Poleur, “Seibr” had an automatic sight and radio detour, which allowed to shoot even in the dark and clouds. The Americans had anti-ship costumes, which is why the pilot was less tired. In general, cars were close in quality; As the Hero of the Soviet Union wrote the AC of the Korean war in the book "Migi" against the "Seibers", the success in the battle depended "on the skill and courage of the pilots, the choice of maneuver and interaction in group battle." This was the first and last war, on which dozens of jet aircraft converged on both sides.

Since the spring of the year, the pilots of the corps fought on Migbis - modernized machines. At the beginning of the year, they were equipped with a “their or foe” system, increased the area of ​​brake shields, installed new radio stations and sights. A little later, Migi was equipped with a periscope for a view of the rear hemisphere and Anti -Radar, warning about radar irrigation.

After the appearance of these machines in Korea, the US domination in the air came to an end. The zone of Soviet aviation actions - a strip adjacent to the Yalu Valley - received the nickname Mig Alley, "Alley of MiGs" from the Americans. But the enemy recognized him in the sky unmistakably. The eternal record was Sutyan opened the combat score of his regiment, knocking down the first “Seibr” on June 19.

Three days later, there were already three “sabers” on his account. The political department of the division released the leaflet "The Brave Stalin Sokol Senior Lieutenant Sutyan," the pilot was appointed assistant commander of the regiment for air shooting and fighting tactics. And his first award for battles in the sky of Korea was the removal of that same party penalty. In October, Captain Sutyan became the hero of the Soviet Union.

Together with him, General George Lobov received a high rank in Korea, he replenished his personal account with four shot down f, captains Grigory Guest and Sergey Kramarenko, senior lieutenants Boris Sampletsov and Evgeny Stelmas both posthumously, Major Seraphim Subbotin and senior lieutenant Fedor Shebanov. In the submission of the major title, which Sutyan was awarded in January of the year, it was said: "Fights are tactically competently, imposing his will to the enemy."Most often, the main rivals of MiGs - “Seibers” became the victims of Sutyagin: they are on the account of Nikolai Vasilyevich - 15, including the car of Colonel Glenn Todd Iglesston, who became an ace on the Second World War.

In addition to the “saber”, the pilot destroyed two F, two “gluster-meera” and three F just in Korea Sutyan made combat sorties, held 66 air battles, personally shot down 22 aircraft, was neither shot down nor wounded. This record has not yet been beaten. Nikolai Vasilievich is not only the best Soviet of the Korean war, but also the most effective fighter of the reactive era in the world.

Next to him you can only put Evgeny Pepelyaev, who officially counted 20 victories in Korea. It is interesting that neither Sutyan nor Pepelyaev had previously had serious combat experience: during the war they served in the Far East, they did not have meetings in the air with the enemy during the liberation of Manchuria. The reasons for the combat success of Sityagin, his biographers, the historian of aviation, Igor Seydov and the son of the pilot Yuri Sutyan, who wrote the book "Thunderstorm" of the Seibers.

The best AS of the Korean War, "is called heroic health, the ability to tolerate overloads, pressure drops and temperature, excellent vision - he even noticed mushrooms in the forest first. You can add here and luck, which in the war is never superfluous. The strategic bomber in the collapse of the "Supergracy" on April 12 of the year went down in the history of American aviation as "Black Thursday", October 30 - as Black Tuesday.

These days, the Soviet “MiGs” defeated entire armades of “super components” - strategic bombers in, previously considered almost invulnerable; The Americans had to abandon the daytime use in the frame of the photo machine gun - "Superbreign" in April. And in the spring of the year, Sutyan returned to his homeland. He graduated from the Air Force Academy, held various positions - higher and higher, mastered supersonic equipment, studied again - at the Military Academy of the General Staff, and led the Kharkov High Air Force.

In M received the general rank. He served in Kyiv as deputy commander of the Air Army - twice Hero of the Soviet Union, a fighter pilot Nikolai Skomorokhov, Vladimir Vysotsky dedicated to him a "song about the dead friend." In the year, General Sutyan again went on a secret business trip - to Vietnam, the main adviser in aviation. Now he, like his colleagues, no longer knocked enemies, but shared his experience, supervised the work of workshops and Air Force schools, and gave lectures.

For an annual business trip received the Order of the Red Star - the third in a row. Nikolai Sutyan. When his vision began to fall, the doctors forbade Sutyan to fly on jet machines. He mastered the management of transport aircraft and even helicopters - did not want to part with the sky. He resigned in m, led the civil defense at the Kiev Research Institute of Hydroduction and Land reclamation about what he received the title of the hero, Sutyatin had no right to tell Memoarov.

The wide reader learned about the best ace of an unknown war from the article by Anatoly Dokuchaev "The Secret of the feat of Nikolai Sutyagin." She entered the Red Star in the year, when the pilot had not been in this world for a long time. Read us in Telegram.