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18 lip 2015 · DB-3F/IL-4/IL-4T Soviet Long Range Bomber 1:48 Xuntong. Ilyushin began work on this twin engined long-range bomber long before the outbreak of WWII, and it was initially given the code DB-4 from the Russian for Long-Range Bomber.
The Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F) (Russian: Ильюшин Ил-4 (ДБ-3Ф); NATO reporting name: Bob) [1] is a Soviet twin-engined long-range bomber and torpedo bomber, widely used by the Soviet Air Force and Soviet Naval Aviation during World War II. Design and development.
17 wrz 2015 · Il-4. In 1938, the Ilyushin design bureau redesigned the Ilyushin DB-3 to ease production and improve its performance, the revised version receiving the designation DB-3F.
IL-4 airplanes with external suspension of landing cabins and cargoes, also adapted for towing landing gliders, including the G-11 airframe itself, designed by V. K. Gribovsky, were especially widely used in 1943-1944.
Ilyushin IL-4 - bomber. One of the great bombers of the war, the Ilyushin IL-4 has not unnaturally been overshadowed in Western thinking by the great British and American aircraft, yet well over 5,000 IL-4s were produced between 1937 and 1944, the vast majority in the last three years.
As with the DB-3, the Il-4 was used to haul cargoes on platforms attached under the fuselage, with a set of personnel modules developed as well. Il-4s were also used as glider tugs; a few were fitted with auxiliary tanks to haul fuel to frontline airfields, and some were kitted up for reconnaissance missions.
26 sie 2013 · Drawings of Tapani Tuomanen. Evolution of camouflage of DB-3/Il-4. This page has been made with the help of: Tapani Tuomanen, Aleksandr Ruchkowsky, Fabrizio D'Isanto, Ilya Grinberg and many members of Sovietwarplanes and Britmodellers. Bibliography: Il-4 of Vladimir Kotelnikov, ed. Eskmo, 2009.
