OVA
Description
Aleksandra Ivanovna Pokryshkin, also called Sasha, is Orussia's top flying ace and combat commander of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing. Hailing from the Orussian Army's 216th Fighter Aviation Regiment, she gained early mechanical skill through her engineer father. She once considered becoming a mechanic or technician, but independently studied air combat tactics and technology during a period of underdeveloped Orussian air power, learning from a textbook by Reine Fonck. This study gave her high affinity with Gallian witches and prompted Orussia to actively recruit exiled Gallians. Her personal military achievements and tactical textbook, written from experiences during the evacuations of Karlsland and Orussia, made her a valued combat instructor. The textbook spread quickly for being easy to understand, and she enthusiastically shares information and tactics between combat units.
She joined the 502nd after its formation following Operation Barbarossa. The unit recovers Karlsland territories and provides front-line defense for Europe. Its high striker unit attrition stems from vigorous fighting and constant sorties. She struggles to obtain equipment due to Orussian evacuation efforts, despite Liberion supplying provisions. Frequent destruction of striker units on sorties presents a major logistical challenge.
Structured and sometimes perfectionist, she acts as a foil to Krupinski's hijinks and Katajainen's carelessness. She shares a close, caretaker-like relationship with Nikka, often repairing Nikka's broken striker units. These repairs bring them closer despite the headaches involved.
Her inherent magic, Image Memorization, allows her to remember and never forget anything she views or experiences, from technical plans to mundane memories, with deeper and more technical detail than typical recall. She can access these details at will. The ability is indispensable for strategy, tactics, and equipment study and repair, though due to Nikka's numerous accidents, she most often uses it for repairing Nikka's striker unit, with little application in direct combat.
Her striker units include a repainted brown MiG-60 late model, numbered white 67, with south area brown camouflage, and a Mir Gosudarstvo Design Bureau MiG i-225 prototype, numbered prototype 3, set for daytime combat and painted simple olive with minimal markings, reflecting her practical nature. During the Orussia evacuation battle, she and other witches used old-fashioned Liberion-supplied striker units like the Bell P-39 Airacobra due to unready Orussian equipment.
She appears in the anime Brave Witches and the OVA Brave Witches: Petersburg Grand Strategy. In the OVA, she defuses a situation where Eila and Waltrud burst into Sanya's room, separates them, hauls them away, and borrows Eila to provide instruction. She notes that Sanya has a pleasant presence she relates to through shared Orussian heritage. Her instructional efforts meet difficulty due to Eila's inability to explain tactics clearly, leaving others befuddled and disappointing Aleksandra.
Her historical archetype is Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin, a Soviet pilot nicknamed "Engineer" in his youth. He scored 47 of his 65 aerial victories in Bell P-39 Airacobras, making him the highest-scoring P-39 pilot of any nation and the third-highest-scoring Allied ace. She was initially to join the 503rd Joint Fighter Wing under Bronislava F. Safonov, but Gundula Rall's application was processed first for providing alcohol to the HR department, as revealed in an audio drama.
She joined the 502nd after its formation following Operation Barbarossa. The unit recovers Karlsland territories and provides front-line defense for Europe. Its high striker unit attrition stems from vigorous fighting and constant sorties. She struggles to obtain equipment due to Orussian evacuation efforts, despite Liberion supplying provisions. Frequent destruction of striker units on sorties presents a major logistical challenge.
Structured and sometimes perfectionist, she acts as a foil to Krupinski's hijinks and Katajainen's carelessness. She shares a close, caretaker-like relationship with Nikka, often repairing Nikka's broken striker units. These repairs bring them closer despite the headaches involved.
Her inherent magic, Image Memorization, allows her to remember and never forget anything she views or experiences, from technical plans to mundane memories, with deeper and more technical detail than typical recall. She can access these details at will. The ability is indispensable for strategy, tactics, and equipment study and repair, though due to Nikka's numerous accidents, she most often uses it for repairing Nikka's striker unit, with little application in direct combat.
Her striker units include a repainted brown MiG-60 late model, numbered white 67, with south area brown camouflage, and a Mir Gosudarstvo Design Bureau MiG i-225 prototype, numbered prototype 3, set for daytime combat and painted simple olive with minimal markings, reflecting her practical nature. During the Orussia evacuation battle, she and other witches used old-fashioned Liberion-supplied striker units like the Bell P-39 Airacobra due to unready Orussian equipment.
She appears in the anime Brave Witches and the OVA Brave Witches: Petersburg Grand Strategy. In the OVA, she defuses a situation where Eila and Waltrud burst into Sanya's room, separates them, hauls them away, and borrows Eila to provide instruction. She notes that Sanya has a pleasant presence she relates to through shared Orussian heritage. Her instructional efforts meet difficulty due to Eila's inability to explain tactics clearly, leaving others befuddled and disappointing Aleksandra.
Her historical archetype is Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin, a Soviet pilot nicknamed "Engineer" in his youth. He scored 47 of his 65 aerial victories in Bell P-39 Airacobras, making him the highest-scoring P-39 pilot of any nation and the third-highest-scoring Allied ace. She was initially to join the 503rd Joint Fighter Wing under Bronislava F. Safonov, but Gundula Rall's application was processed first for providing alcohol to the HR department, as revealed in an audio drama.