Michael Devjataev and "He-111H-22"

In the most improbable image Heinkel 111H-22 has played a role of the savior in destiny of Soviet pilot Michael Devjataeva.

The commander of a wing of 104-th Guards Fighters squadron (9-th Guards Fighters aviation division, 2-nd air army, 1-st Ukrainian front) guards the senior lieutenant Devjataev Michael Petrovich in air fights has brought down 9 enemy planes. In the evening on July, 13th, 1944 has taken off in structure of group of fighters "Aerocobra" P-39 on reflection of a strike of enemy aircraft. In unequal air combat in area of Lvov he has been wounded in the right leg, and his plane was burned. At the last minute he has left a falling fighter with a parachute. With heavy burns it had captured.

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RS-82 and RS-132 (Reaktivny Snaryad; Russian: Реактивный Снаряд; rocket-powered cannon shell) were unguided rockets used by Soviet military aircraft in World War II.

Design work on RS-82 and RS-132 rockets began in the early 1930s, by a team led by Georgy Langemak,and including Vladimir Artemiev, Boris Petropavlovsky, Yuriy Pobedonostsev, and others. The 82 mm (3.2 in) and 132 mm (5.2 in) diameters were chosen because the standard smokeless gunpowder charge used at the time was 24 mm (1 in) in diameter and seven of these charges fit into an 82 mm cylinder.

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