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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 ...
Ilyushin Il-4 in Finnish service; aircraft number DF-25. Photo taken in April 1944. China. Chinese Nationalist Air Force 24 aircraft [citation needed] Finland. Finnish Air Force 11 aircraft of the type DB-3M and four aircraft of the type DB-3F (Il-4) Germany. Luftwaffe (tests only) Soviet Union. Soviet Air Force; Regiments as at 1945-46: [8]
DB-4 (TsKB-56) long-range bomber prototype, 1940. Il-6 long-range bomber prototype developed from the Il-4 and Ilyushin's last piston-engined bomber, 1942. Il-22 jet-powered bomber prototype, world's first 4-engined straight-wing aircraft, 1947.
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 ...
Soviet bomber aircraft by decade of first flight ... Ilyushin DB-4; Ilyushin Il-22; Ilyushin Il-26; Ilyushin Il-28; Ilyushin Il-30; K. Keldysh bomber; M. Mikoyan ...
His single-engined Ilyushin Il-2 ground-attack aircraft, the single most-produced combat aircraft design in history (with 36,183 examples), and the Ilyushin Il-4 twin-engined bomber (of which just over 5,200 examples were built) were used extensively in World War II, on all fronts where the Soviets fought.
Category: Ilyushin aircraft. 40 languages. ... Ilyushin DB-3; Ilyushin DB-4; Doomsday plane (Russia) I. Ilyushin I-21; Ilyushin Il-1; Ilyushin Il-2; Ilyushin Il-4 ...
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]