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The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War.The word shturmovík (Cyrillic: штурмовик), the generic Russian term for a ground-attack aircraft, became a synecdoche for the Il-2 in English sources, where it is commonly rendered Shturmovik, Stormovik [3] and Sturmovik.
The Ilyushin Il-10 (Cyrillic Илью́шин Ил-10, NATO reporting name: "Beast" [3]) is a Soviet ground attack aircraft developed at the end of World War II by the Ilyushin construction bureau. It was also license -built in Czechoslovakia by Avia as the Avia B-33 .
In 1967, the Soviet Air Forces drew up a specification for a jet-powered shturmovik or armoured ground attack aircraft. While Sukhoi designed an all-new single seat aircraft, the Su-25, Ilyushin proposed a modified version of their Il-40 of 1953 under the designation Il-42, which, unlike the Sukhoi, was a two-seat aircraft with a remotely-controlled rear gun turret.
Il-2 Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft, NATO codename "Bark", 1939, most-produced military aircraft of all time. Il-6 (TsKB-60) ground attack aircraft project developed from the Il-2, 1941. Canceled due to the Il-8 and Il-10. Il-8, ground-attack prototype developed from the Il-2 and intended as a Il-2 replacement, 1943.
Its primary aircraft was the Ilyushin Il-2 'Sturmovik'. Designations. 1st Assault Aviation Corps; 1st Kirovograd Assault Aviation Corps (1942–44)
However, Ilyushin thought that the best features of the two-seat Il-1 prototype could be incorporated into the Il-8 design and approval for another prototype was granted on 1 July 1944. The new prototype, confusingly referred to in the records with the same Il-8-2 designation used for the second prototype of the original design, greatly ...
Type No. Service period NATO name Remarks Ilyushin Il-2 "Sturmovik": 29,937: 1941–1950s: Bark: Excludes Il-10. Ilyushin Il-10: 5,026: 1944–1956: Beast: Excludes ...
Ilyushin prototyping facility on Khodynka Field in Moscow. Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union.Its operations began on 13 January 1933, by order of P. I. Baranov, People's Commissar of the Heavy Industry and the Head of the Main Department of Aviation Industry.