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Ilyushin DB-3, Dalniy Bombardirovshchik
VASO in English, ВАСО Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle
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| A DB-3M at the Central Air Force Museum near Moscow, Russia. | |
| Role | Bomber / torpedo-bomber |
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| Manufacturer | Ilyushin |
| First flight | Summer 1935 |
| Primary users | Soviet Air Forces (VVS) Republic of China Air Force Finnish Air Force |
| Produced | 1936–1939 |
| Number built | 1,528 |
| Variants | Ilyushin Il-4 |
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History Voronezh Aircraft Production Association
Ilyushin DB-3, Dalniy Bombardirovshchik
The Ilyushin DB-3, where "DB" stands for Dalniy Bombardirovshchik (Russian: Дальний бомбардировщик) meaning "long-range bomber", was a Soviet bomber aircraft of World War II. It was a twin-engined, low-wing monoplane that first flew in 1935. 1,528 were built. The DB-3 was the precursor of the Ilyushin Il-4 (originally designated DB-3F).
In 1939, 30 DB-3s were supplied to the Republic of China Air Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War and they saw heavy action against Japanese targets in the Wuhan region from their bases in Sichuan (mostly used by the 8th Group), before being replaced by B-24 Liberators in 1943.
Design
The genesis of the DB-3 lay in the BB-2, Sergey Ilyushin's failed competitor to the Tupolev SB. Ilyushin was able to salvage the work and time invested in the BB-2's design by recasting it as a long-range bomber, again competing against a Tupolev design, the DB-2, to meet the stringent requirements of an aircraft capable of delivering a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombload to a range of 3,000 km (1,900 mi) at a maximum speed no less than 350 km/h (220 mph). He had redesigned the BB-2 to take advantage of the radial Gnome-Rhône Mistral Major 14Kdrs engine, for which the Soviets had purchased a license in 1934 as the M-85, and had begun construction of the prototype of the BB-2 2K-14 as the TsKB-26 that same year.
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Ilyushin DB-3, Dalniy Bombardirovshchik
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Ilyushin DB-3, Dalniy Bombardirovshchik
General Info
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- Crew: 3
- Length: 14.22 m (46 ft 8 in)
- Wingspan: 21.44 m (70 ft 4 in)
- Height: 4.19 m (13 ft 9 in)
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- Empty weight: 5,030 kg (11,089 lb)
- Gross weight: 7,745 kg (17,075 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 9,450 kg
- Powerplant: 2 × Nazarov M-87 9-cyl. air-cooled radial engines, 709 kW (951 hp) each
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- Maximum speed: 439 km/h
- Range: 3,800 km
- Service ceiling: 9,600 m (31,500 ft)
- Rate of climb: 6.93 m/s
Related development
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- 3 × 7.62 mm ShKAS machine guns
- 1 × 20 mm ShVAK cannon (not always fitted)
- Up to 2,500 kg (5,500 lb) of bombs
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Links to Youtube & Others
In February 2017, it was announced that Russia's United Aircraft Corporation had signed a contract with its subsidiary Ilyushin Aviation Complex for the development of a new version of Ilyushin Il-96-400 wide-body passenger airliner to compete with the Boeing 777-9 and Airbus A350-1000.
IIyushin DB-3 Bomber
By January 2020, the first test-flight airframe was in final assembly and the wing and fuselage were joined, to be finished at the end of 2020 before a first flight in 2021
Youtube Link
Projected double-deck version of Il-96 for 550-600 passengers and powered by Kuznetsov NK-93 propfan engines. Following flight tests in 2007 the engines were removed and the aircraft was not developed further.
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