Aleksandra I. Pokryshkin

Aleksandra I. Pokryshkin
Age:	16 (end of 1944)
Date of Birth:	March 6 1928
Affiliation:	Orussian Army Counter-Air Aviation 502nd Joint Fighter Wing
Rank:	Flight Lieutenant
Height:	158cm
Striker Unit model:	MiG-60 MiG-3 P-39 La-5 Others
Weapons:	DP28 Light Machine gun PTRS1941 Anti-tank Rifle
Familiar:	Polar Bear
Voiced By:	Hara Yumi

Aleksandra I. Pokryshkin (アレクサンドラ・I・ポクルイーシキン^?, Александра Ивановна Покрышкин) is a witch of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing, Captain from the Orussian Army's 216th Fighter Aviation Regiment, and Orussia's top flying ace.

Her familiar is the polar bear.

She is voiced by Hara Yumi.

Background

Orussia's top Ace. She serves as the 502nd JFW combat commander. She is known for being a great commander and tactician. She is mostly active on the front lines in the south, and flies repainted brown MiG-60 striker units.

Thanks to her engineer father, she became familiar with mechanics early in her childhood and her mechanical skill is topnotch. In modern language you might say she has something of a "mecha fetish".

Thanks to her personal military achievements, and her textbook tactical execution of the evacuations of Karlsland and Orussia, she is highly valued as a combat instructor. Very enthusiastic about sharing information and tactics between different combat units.

The 502nd's primary duties are the recovery of Karlsland territories and serving as the frontline defense for the rest of Europe from enemy aggression. This, in addition to the "vigorous fighting spirit" of her unit's witches leads to an extremely high attrition rate for strikers.

Because of the Orussian evacuation efforts she constantly struggles to get equipment, even from Liberion who are providing supplies; the fact that every time her unit sorties someone manages to destroy a striker unit proves to be a massive headache.

Personality

Aleksandra is structured and sometimes perfectionistic, often acting as foil to the hijinks of Krupinski and the carelessness of Katajainen. With Nikka, Aleksandra is portrayed as especially close; despite the constant headache of having to repair Nikka's broken units, it has brought them together in a certain "care-taker" sort of way.

Ace Archetype

Aleksandra is based on Russian ace Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin, who was nicknamed "Engineer" when he was a teenager.

Gallery

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Appearances

Anime

• Strike Witches Movie
• Operation Victory Arrow, Episode 3

Other

• 502nd Twitter Story