![]() ![]() Armor plates replaced the frame and paneling throughout the nacelle and middle part of the fuselage, and an armored hull made of riveted homogeneous armor steel AB-1 (AB-2) secured the aircraft’s engine, cockpit, water and oil radiators, and fuel tanks. Its most notable feature was the inclusion of armor in an airframe load-bearing scheme. The Il-2 is a single-engine, propeller-driven, low-wing monoplane of mixed construction with a crew of two (one in early versions), specially designed for assault operations. With 36,183 examples of the Il-2 produced during the war, and in combination with its successor, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in aviation history. The Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik was a ground-attack aircraft in the second world war, produced by the Soviet Union in very large numbers. ![]()
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