The Ilyushin Il-2 was a Soviet ground attack aircraft during the Second World War. Several IL-2s are seen in the ending of Call of Duty: United Offensive in pursuit of retreating German forces. It is also used by Soviet forces in Call of Duty: World at War in the missions "Their Land, Their Blood", "Blood and Iron", "Downfall" and "Heart of the Reich".
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| - The Ilyushin Il-2 was a Soviet ground attack aircraft during the Second World War. Several IL-2s are seen in the ending of Call of Duty: United Offensive in pursuit of retreating German forces. It is also used by Soviet forces in Call of Duty: World at War in the missions "Their Land, Their Blood", "Blood and Iron", "Downfall" and "Heart of the Reich".
- The Soviet Union announced the beginning of the ground war phase of World War III when Ilyushin II-2s and 10s roared over Fulda shooting up and bombing whatever they could. Gustav Hozzel recognized the sounds of the engine and told his wife to take shelter in the cellar while he headed to the Rathaus to enlist in the German Emergency Militia.
- The Ilyushin Il-2 (Cyrillic Илью́шин Ил-2) was a ground-attack aircraft (Shturmovik) in the Second World War, produced by the Soviet Union in very large numbers. In combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, a total of 42,330 were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in all of aviation history, as well as one of the most produced piloted aircraft in history along with the American postwar civilian Cessna 172 and the Soviet's own Polikarpov Po-2 biplane, sometimes seen side-by-side with the big armored Ilyushin design on the front lines. The Shturmovik is regarded as the best ground attack aircraft of World War II. It was a prominent aircraft for tank killing with its accuracy in dive bombing and its guns being able to penetrate tanks' thin top armor.
- The Il-2 had a crew of one or two - most examples having a rear gunner in addition to the pilot - and a Mikulin AM-38 Engine that was capable of propelling the Shturmovik at speeds of up to 430 km/h. Production of the MiG-1 and MiG-3 was mainly curtailed due to the IL-2 having priority access to this engine. The Russians considered the type so important to the war effort that Stalin once sent a telegram to the managers of the construction plants, in which he described the Il-2 as being as important to the Army as air and bread. The total weight of the Il-2 was around 4,500 kg and its total length was 11.6 meters.
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| - The Ilyushin Il-2 was a Soviet ground attack aircraft during the Second World War. Several IL-2s are seen in the ending of Call of Duty: United Offensive in pursuit of retreating German forces. It is also used by Soviet forces in Call of Duty: World at War in the missions "Their Land, Their Blood", "Blood and Iron", "Downfall" and "Heart of the Reich".
- The Ilyushin Il-2 (Cyrillic Илью́шин Ил-2) was a ground-attack aircraft (Shturmovik) in the Second World War, produced by the Soviet Union in very large numbers. In combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, a total of 42,330 were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in all of aviation history, as well as one of the most produced piloted aircraft in history along with the American postwar civilian Cessna 172 and the Soviet's own Polikarpov Po-2 biplane, sometimes seen side-by-side with the big armored Ilyushin design on the front lines. The Shturmovik is regarded as the best ground attack aircraft of World War II. It was a prominent aircraft for tank killing with its accuracy in dive bombing and its guns being able to penetrate tanks' thin top armor. To Il-2 pilots, the aircraft was simply the diminutive "Ilyusha". To the soldiers on the ground, it was the "Hunchback", the "Flying Tank" or the "Flying Infantryman". Its postwar NATO reporting name was "Bark". The Il-2 aircraft played a crucial role on the Eastern Front. Joseph Stalin paid the Il-2 a great tribute in his own inimitable manner: when a particular production factory fell behind on its deliveries, Stalin sent an angrily-worded cable to the factory manager, stating "They are as essential to the Red Army as air and bread."
- The Il-2 had a crew of one or two - most examples having a rear gunner in addition to the pilot - and a Mikulin AM-38 Engine that was capable of propelling the Shturmovik at speeds of up to 430 km/h. Production of the MiG-1 and MiG-3 was mainly curtailed due to the IL-2 having priority access to this engine. The Russians considered the type so important to the war effort that Stalin once sent a telegram to the managers of the construction plants, in which he described the Il-2 as being as important to the Army as air and bread. The total weight of the Il-2 was around 4,500 kg and its total length was 11.6 meters. Furthermore, the Il-2 had a maximum range of around 600 kilometers with a service ceiling of 5,900 meters. Its armament consisted of two 20mm autocannons and two 7.62mm machine guns along with up to two bombs and eight rockets as the mission required it.
- The Soviet Union announced the beginning of the ground war phase of World War III when Ilyushin II-2s and 10s roared over Fulda shooting up and bombing whatever they could. Gustav Hozzel recognized the sounds of the engine and told his wife to take shelter in the cellar while he headed to the Rathaus to enlist in the German Emergency Militia.
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