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...standards. The best ones were derived from Western models. But in tactical air, the defense-conscious Russians took a back seat to no one. One of the best ground attack planes of World War II, the armor-plated Stormovik, came off the drawing board of another Russian, Sergei Iliushin. German Panzer divisions called it "the black death." In one ten-day period, the Stormoviks knocked out over 400 Nazi tanks. The Russians also learned to build planes in a hurry. By 1945, Russia's factories were turning them out at the rate of 40,000 a year...
...Iliushin). Three-or four-place, twin-jet medium bomber. Speed, about 600 m.p.h.; range, around 2,000 miles; bombload, unknown, but a Red navy version has been fitted to carry a torpedo. Armament, two 37-mm. cannon in the nose, twin 12.7-mm. machine guns in side, top and tail turrets...
Sergei V. Iliushin, 57, rags-to-riches designer of the legendary IL-2 (Stormovik). A poor peasant's son in Czarist days, he trekked 300 miles to Moscow at the age of 15 to get into aviation. Rose slowly through the ranks, first as mechanic then as chief mechanic. When orders came down for an attack plane, Iliushin's was the only design smaller than a B17. After the war, turned out twin-engine (IL-12) and four-engine (IL-18) transports that look something like U.S. Convairs and Boeing Stratocruisers. Now working on a fast, twin...
...word Stormovik does not refer to a particular aircraft design but to a class of aircraft-"storming" planes-of which the Iliushin is simply the best and best known...
Designers Sergei Iliushin and Alexandr Yakovlev, both major generals and Heroes of Socialist Labor; Aleksei I. Shakhurin, the People's Commissar for the Aviation Industry; and Marshal Alexandr Novikov...