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    • Year
      1906
      2018
    • Length
      9 m
      14 m
    • Height
      3 m
      6 m
    • Width
      1 m
      8 m
    • Diameter
      3 m
      9 m
    • Wing area
      30 m2
      47 m2
    • Wingspan (Beam)
      11 m
      18 m
    • Wing loading
      128 kg/m2
      192 kg/m2
    • Swept
      4 m
      10 m
    • Sweep
      25 deg
      68 deg
    • Aspect ratio
      1
      26
    • Disc area
      1 m2
      460 m2
    • Main rotor diameter
      1 m
      62 m
    • Rotor number
      1 qt
      8 qt
    • Blades per rotor
      4 qt
      5 qt
    • Disc loading
      17 kg/m2
      73 kg/m2
    • Tail rotor diameter
      0 m
      5 m
    • Empty weight
      3488 kg
      5232 kg
    • Max. takeoff weight (Gross weight)
      5104 kg
      7656 kg
    • Loaded weight
      5 kg
      242500 kg
    • Crew
      1 per.
      3 per.
    • Useful load
      26 kg
      90700 kg
    • Payload
      23 kg
      122470 kg
    • Capacity passengers
      1 per.
      400 per.
    • Hardpoints
      1 qt
      2576 qt
    • Ground Speed
      296 km/h
      444 km/h
    • Max. Speed
      331 km/h
      497 km/h
    • Сruise Speed
      307 km/h
      461 km/h
    • Stall Speed
      40 km/h
      258 km/h
    • Landing Speed
      68 km/h
      270 km/h
    • Minimum control speed
      24 km/h
      113 km/h
    • Never exceed speed
      107 km/h
      1050 km/h
    • Fuel Capacity
      23 l
      320000 l
    • Fuel External
      142 l
      10025 l
    • Power/mass
      0 hp/kg
      23 hp/kg
    • Thrust/weight
      0 kN/kg
      3 kN/kg
    • Afterburning thrust
      29 kN/kg
      980 kN/kg
    • Total Power
      1378 hp
      2068 hp
    • Thrust
      1 kN
      1914 kN
    • Service ceiling
      4400 m
      6600 m
    • Static ceiling
      3 m
      5485 m
    • Range (Ferry range)
      576 km
      864 km
    • Range PTB (Ferry range)
      720 km
      10000 km
    • Сombat radius
      277 km
      7210 km
    • Endurance
      0 h
      150 h
    • Takeoff roll
      20 m
      3200 m
    • Landing roll
      20 m
      2570 m
    • Maximum glide ratio
      7
      43
    • Load factor from
      2 G
      9 G
    • Rate of climb
      499 m/min
      749 m/min
    • Rate of sink
      36 m/min
      56 m/min
    • Time to altitude
      0 min
      105 min
    • Propellers
      1 qt
      8 qt
    • Prop diameter
      1 m
      6 m
    • Prop blade number
      1 qt
      8 qt
    • Guns
      4 qt
      6 qt
    • Bombs
      1 qt
      250 qt
    • Missiles
      1 qt
      24 qt
    • Rockets
      9 qt
      15 qt
    • Torpedoes
      1 qt
      4 qt
    • Bombs weight
      480 kg
      720 kg
    • Rockets weight
      1 kg
      48 kg
    • Number built
      28946 qt
      43000 qt
    • Price
      41 USD
      750000000 USD

Ilyushin Il-2
TypeAircraft
Company

Open Joint Stock Company «Ilyushin Aviation Complex»

Scheme

Low wing

Monoplane

Geometry
Length (m)
1.9
 
11.6
88.7
Height (m)
0.6
 
4.2
50.1
Wings
Wing area (m2)
1.1
 
38.5
925
Wingspan (Beam) (m)
0.1
 
14.6
95
Wing loading (kg/m2)
3.1
 
160
829
Weights
Empty weight (kg)
8
 
4,360
276,800
Max. takeoff weight (Gross weight) (kg)
154
 
6,380
575,000
Capacity
Crew (per.)
1
 
2
112
pilot and rear gunner
Speeds
Ground Speed (km/h)
96.6
 
370
1,500
Max. Speed (km/h)
25
 
414
28,165
Сruise Speed (km/h)
52
 
384
3,087
Power
Total Power (hp)
0.4
 
1,722.5
60,000
1 powerplant
Performance
Service ceiling (m)
0.6
 
5,500
161,544
Range (Ferry range) (km)
4
 
720
40,700
Dynamic Performance
Rate of climb (m/min)
1.9
 
624
36,000
Combat
Guns (qt)
1
 
5
18
2 × fixed forward-firing 23 mm caliber VYa-23 cannons, 150 rounds per gun; 2 × fixed forward-firing 7.62 mm ShKAS machine guns, 750 rounds per gun; 1 × manually aimed 12.7 mm Berezin UBT machine gun in rear cockpit, 300 rounds
Rockets (qt)
1
 
12
76
8 × RS-82 rockets; 4 × RS-132 rockets
Bombs weight (kg)
2
 
600
39,000
Stat
Number built (qt)
0
 
36,183
43,000
Introduction 1942
First flight 02.10.1939
Stop production 1954
Not without reason was he called flying tank, the Ilyushin Il-2 "Sturmovik" proved to be the most powerful combat aircraft of World War II. It was designed in 1938 by Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin, and as it was identified in VVS report it was a single-engine attack monoplane and tactical bomber. The Il-2 was preferred to the Su-2 for that type of missions. The first prototype, the ZKB-55, appeared in the spring of 1939 but an obvious lack of power was a big problem. He was immediately put into serial production after the third prototype had answered the desired characteristics.

The entire front part of the IL-2, i.e. the engine and the cockpit, was a single shielded shell, representing over 15% of the overall weight of the aircraft and also serving as a carcass. All vital parts of the machine were strongly protected but this solution caused a weight gain together with the combination of a reinforced structure for armor plates. The IL2 was strongly armored on the sides of the cockpit and the glass was also shielded. Meanwhile the fuselage was made from a classic wooden and metal structure.

From his first fights in summer 1941, the Sturmovik proved to be very effective against tanks showed it a year later when one aircraft equipped with projectiles dropped them from 100 m and destroyed everything on the area of 1000 m2. This device was very impressive so many nicknames were attributed to him by the communist propaganda such as "Black Death" or "flying tank" but also by the Germans such as "the Butcher" or "Gustave steel".

As a disadvantage Sturmovik was very vulnerable during hunters attacks from behind. Because of this situation in 1942 some units transformed their IL-2 by simply installing a machine gunner behind the pilot. Modified that way, the device became very unstable but a true two-seater was designed in July 1942 and was produced in large numbers. The Il-2M3 was equipped with a more powerful engine.

The Sturmovik participated in all operations on the eastern front and was outstanding in the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 when it faced massive formations of German tanks. His career successfully continued after the Second War, it was supplied to major satellite countries of the Soviet Union in the version Il-10 and participated intensively in the Korean War. It was the most produced attack aircraft of World War II with 36,163 copies.

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