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Ilyushin carried out design work on the new aircraft, which was given the internal design bureau designation TsKB-56, in parallel with the DB-3F (later designated the Il-4). While the DB-3F was a relatively simple upgrade of the DB-3, the TsKB-56, which had the service designation DB-3, was larger and heavier, in order to meet the requirements ...
The prototype DB-3F, powered by the same 949 hp (708 kW) Tumansky M-87B engines of the DB-3M, was piloted on its maiden flight by Vladimir Kokkinaki on 21 May 1939. [4] It successfully passed through state acceptance tests and entered production in January 1940, with the 1,100 hp (820 kW) Tumansky M-88 quickly replacing the M-87.
TsKB-6 six-seat passenger/utility aircraft project. TsKB-26 proof of concept prototype for DB-3. M Sh attack aircraft project, 1942. Il-14 four-engine high-speed bomber project, 1944. Il-16 four-engine jet airliner project, 1954. Resembled the Tupolev Tu-110; cancelled due to the Tu-104. Il-24 twin-engine jet bomber project derived from the Il ...
The genesis of the DB-3 lay in the BB-2, Sergey Ilyushin's failed competitor to the Tupolev SB.Ilyushin was able to salvage the work and time invested in the BB-2's design by recasting it as a long-range bomber, again competing against a Tupolev design, the DB-2, to meet the stringent requirements of an aircraft capable of delivering a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombload to a range of 3,000 km (1,900 ...
In 2006, the Russian government merged Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev under a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. [4] In July 2014, it was reported that Ilyushin and Myasishchev would merge to form the United Aircraft Corporation business unit Transport Aircraft. [5] [6]
Ilyushin DB-3: Radial 9-cyl. × 2: Nazarov 273 mph 2400 mi 31,500 ft 2500 kg Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik: Inline V-12: Mikulin 250 mph 475 mi 14,846 ft 600 kg Ilyushin Il-4: mph mi ft kg Ilyushin Il-10 Shturmovik: Inline V-12: Mikulin 342 mph 500 mi 18,000 ft 600 kg North American B-25 Mitchell: mph mi ft kg Petlyakov Pe-2: mph mi ft kg Petlyakov ...
DB-4 may refer to: Ilyushin DB-4 , a twin engined long-range bomber of the Great Patriotic War, built in the USSR Aston Martin DB4 , a British touring sports car of the late 1950s
The Soviet Union redesignates the Ilyushin DB-3F as the Ilyushin Il-4.; March 1 – The U.S. Navy sinks a German submarine for the first time in World War II when a Patrol Squadron 82 (VP-82) Lockheed PBO-1 Hudson piloted by Ensign William Tepuni USNR sinks U-656 off Cape Race, Newfoundland.