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{{short description|Fighter aircraft}} <!-- This article is a part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft]]. Please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content]] for recommended layout. --> {{Infobox aircraft |name =Yak-3 |image = File:Yakolev Yak-3 (115450123) (25073819848).jpg |caption = Yak-3 in the Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum, [[Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast|Krasnogorsk]], Russia |type =[[Fighter Aircraft|Fighter]] |national_origin = [[Soviet Union]] |builder = [[Saratov Aviation Plant|Plant No.292]] ([[Saratov]]), [[Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing|Plant No.31]] ([[Tbilisi]]) |design_group = [[Yakovlev|A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau]] |first_flight = 28 February 1943 (Yak-1M) |introduction = June 1944 |retired = 1952 ([[Soviet Air Forces]]) |status = |primary_user = [[Soviet Air Forces]] |more_users = [[French Air Force]] ([[Normandie-Niemen]])<br />[[Polish Air Force]] <br />[[Yugoslav Air Force]] |produced = March 1944 – August 1946 |number_built = 4,848<ref name="Yakubovich p. 59.">Yakubovich 2011, p. 59.</ref> |unit cost = |developed_from=[[Yakovlev Yak-1]] |developed_into =[[Yakovlev Yak-11]] <br> [[Yakovlev Yak-15]] }} The '''Yakovlev Yak-3''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: '''Яковлев Як-3''') is a single-engine, single-seat [[World War II]] [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[fighter aircraft|fighter]]. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by both pilots and ground crew.<ref name= "Glancey p. 180.">Glancey 2006, p. 180.</ref> One of the smallest and lightest combat fighters fielded by any combatant during the war, its high [[power-to-weight ratio]] gave it excellent performance and it proved to be a formidable dogfighter.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.vectorsite.net/avyak1.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020614204934/http://www.vectorsite.net/avyak1.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = June 14, 2002 | title = Yak Piston Fighters | publisher = Vector}}.</ref>
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