DB-3/Il-4 and its modifications. Torpedo bomber and the backbone of Long-range Aviation
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On August 7, 1941, 15 bombers of DB-3 flew up from the Estonian Island of Ezel (Saarema), heading for Berlin, which was about four hours of the flight ... The sea pilots of the 1st Mino-Torpedo Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force were the first to deal The capital of the Third Reich.
DB-3, renamed in 1942 in IL-4, became the basis of Soviet-acting Soviet aviation and a fleet mine-torpedo aviation. These legendary aircraft participated in three wars - having passed combat baptism in 1939 in China, then “worked” on the military facilities of the Finns, bombed Berlin, Bucharest and Budapest, hunted German ships. Already on June 22, they raided Koenigsberg, but most of the DB-3 crews at the beginning of the war concerned the blows of the clusters of troops in the near rear of the Nazis. These bombers inflicted significant damage to the advancing Wehrmacht, acting as they were going to use them before the war - in the afternoon, in large groups, in dense system and in large (almost practical ceiling) heights.
But DB -3 might not be, it was not in vain that they called the illegitimate: created as a high -speed close bomber, but the losing Tupolev SB, Ilyushin’s plane unexpectedly occupied another niche - a distant bomber and a torpedo carrier (the heroes fought on it cult film "torpedo bombers").
The book of the leading historian of aviation is the most complete and authoritative study of the creation, modifications and combat use of one of the best aircraft of the Second World War, richly illustrated by rare photographs and schemes
DB-3, renamed in 1942 in IL-4, became the basis of Soviet-acting Soviet aviation and a fleet mine-torpedo aviation. These legendary aircraft participated in three wars - having passed combat baptism in 1939 in China, then “worked” on the military facilities of the Finns, bombed Berlin, Bucharest and Budapest, hunted German ships. Already on June 22, they raided Koenigsberg, but most of the DB-3 crews at the beginning of the war concerned the blows of the clusters of troops in the near rear of the Nazis. These bombers inflicted significant damage to the advancing Wehrmacht, acting as they were going to use them before the war - in the afternoon, in large groups, in dense system and in large (almost practical ceiling) heights.
But DB -3 might not be, it was not in vain that they called the illegitimate: created as a high -speed close bomber, but the losing Tupolev SB, Ilyushin’s plane unexpectedly occupied another niche - a distant bomber and a torpedo carrier (the heroes fought on it cult film "torpedo bombers").
The book of the leading historian of aviation is the most complete and authoritative study of the creation, modifications and combat use of one of the best aircraft of the Second World War, richly illustrated by rare photographs and schemes
Author:
Author:Kotelnikov Vladimir Rostislavovich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Engineering & Transportation
- Category:Military Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9955-1041-3
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