Better Soviet Air Force in WW2

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Do you have numbers about electronic manufacturing facilities lost? I found few continuing production (Leningraf for example) or built from evacuated- Eletrosignal Novosibirsk, Barnaulskij radiozavod, Gosudarstvenyj Sajuznyj Berdskyj Radiozavod evacuated from Kharkov to Berdsk, Sarapulskyj radizavod, Elektrochiribov Omsk - radio parts etc.
I have an article somewhere about Soviet radar research that references the damage that the invasion did, but I'm at work right now and am not sure where in my computer it is located.
 
Somebody mentioned better AA defense for airports. I was just playing with idea of building 1/72 kitbash BA-10 and Soviet 37 mm AA gun. While researching 37 mm AA gun I found something interesting on our 'favorit" wiki :D

The Soviet Navy purchased a number of Bofors 25 mm Model 1933 guns in 1935, trials of the weapon were successful and it was decided to develop a 45 mm version of the weapon designated the 49-K. The development under the guidance of leading Soviet designers M. N. Loginov, I. A. Lyamin and L. V. Lyuliev was successful, but the army thought that the 45 mm calibre was a little too large for an automatic field weapon. In January 1938 the Artillery Factory Number 8 in Sverdlovsk was ordered to develop a 37 mm weapon based on the same design. The task was fulfilled by the chief designer of the factory, Mikhail Loginov, and his assistant Lev Loktev. Firing trials of the new 61-K were conducted in October 1938. Competitive firing trials were conducted in 1940 between the 61-K and the Bofors 40 mm/56. There were no substantial differences found between them.
So they lost another 2 years with weapon development. But well not just them. Everybody was getting crazy ideas or came too late with something.
 
A few raids on Polosti and Eastern European rail hubs would have altered things on the stragic scale slowing down the Germans.
The luffwaffa would have to remove units from the front to defend Eastern European assets.Luffwaffa casualties would increase with a better Soviet air force the luffwaffa was hard pressed to keep up with pilot attrition, in the end they couldn't. The end will arrive earlier than in OTL.

But I think still I would focus on operational rather than strategic targeta, as operational raids could be escorted by fighters and would be technologically less demanding. Use of ADD as a concentrated "Hammer of God" asset.
 
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