• Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik
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    The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik is painted in Soviet gray-green, tan, and black camouflage with a blue underside. The front half of the fuselage is comprised of steel plating and the aft fuselage is laminated fur, the wings are of aluminum construction. This a two-seat aircraft equipped with two (2) 23 mm cannon and two (2) 7.62 mm machine guns mounted in the wings one 12.7 mm UBT machine gun mounted in the rear cockpit and operated by the gunner.

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Mark Avino

Date Created

11/06/2024

Source

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Keywords

Aircraft; Aviation; Military; World War II

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