The Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik is a single engine Soviet ground attack aircraft that entered service in 1941, built around heavy armor plating integrated directly into its airframe to protect the pilot and engine from ground fire while attacking tanks, troops and vehicles at low altitude. Produced in greater numbers than any other military aircraft in history, it became a central instrument of Soviet air support on the Eastern Front and earned the nickname the flying tank among German troops who faced it.
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SignificanceThe single most produced military aircraft design in aviation history 1 Connections
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State Aviation Factory No. 1, which was evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev (now Samara), came online in October 1941
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only State Aviation Factory No. 18 at Voronezh and Factory No. 381 at Leningrad had commenced production
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Soviet Union
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making it the single most produced military aircraft design in aviation history
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2 October 1939
Of Make: Ilyushin, Design
The Il-2 was designed by Sergey Ilyushin and his team at the Central Design Bureau in 1938.
In Group: Ground-Attack and Dive Bombers, Lead sentence
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.
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