Rank 32 documents the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 — the refined successor to the MiG-1, designed to intercept bombers above 7,000 metres with the Mikulin AM-35A inline engine and a sleek fuselage that traded low-altitude agility for thin-air speed. When Operation Barbarossa opened in June 1941, VVS units discovered that most combat occurred far below the MiG-3's optimised ceiling; ground crews removed wing slats and revised tactics to keep the fighter relevant in the desperate summer battles over Belarus and Ukraine. MiG-3 pilots still claimed victories against Luftwaffe bombers and fighters; the design bureau's lessons from the type fed directly into the MiG-9 jet and the MiG-15 that would define Cold War air combat. Split-view blueprint art renders the olive-green red-star exterior and wireframe AM-35A lattice exactly as the master PNG dictates.