Rockets!

I've nearly finished painting the nine Ki-21's for the Khalkhin Gol project so have been looking for an interesting scenario that I can use them in, rather than just a bog standard bomber interception mission. I immediately thought of a game in which the Soviets could use RS-82 air to air rocket equipped I-16's, a five aircraft special assignment unit being on a combat trial toward the end of the war. 

On 20th August at 16.30, the unit took part in an attack on a mixed formation of Ki-27's and Ki-21's, firing the rockets for the first time and downing two Ki-27's which disintegrated in mid-air. The Ki-27's then flew off chased by the rest of the Soviet fighters, leaving the Ki-21's to carry on to their targets but with subsequent losses to both AAA and fighters later on.

'On August 20, 1939, at 4 p.m., Soviet pilots I. Mikhailenko, S. Pimenov, V. Fedosov and T. Tkachenko under the command of Captain N. Zvonarev flew to perform a combat mission to cover our troops. Over the front line, they met Japanese fighters. At the commander's signal, all five fired a simultaneous missile salvo from a distance of about a kilometre and shot down two Japanese aircraft. Soviet fighter-missile carriers participated in fourteen air battles and shot down thirteen Japanese aircraft.' RS-132 (airwar.ru)

Tumbling Dice I-16 with rockets

The Soviets had twenty three I-16's including the five rocket armed ones, together with eleven I-153's, against forty Ki27's and ten Ki-21's, so I'd have to scale the numbers down by only representing part of the battle. It's a bit different and would be an interesting twist on the usual dogfight, so I'll have a go at working something out as an optional extra to my existing scenario writing schedule.