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Ilyushin Il-4

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Also known as Bob, DB-3F, Il-4

Soviet bomber aircraft

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Vinony's link graph records 212 inbound references to Ilyushin Il-4, and connects out to Soviet Air Forces, Tumansky M-88 and Russia.

It is catalogued under topics including 1930s Soviet bomber aircraft, Aircraft first flown in 1936 and Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear.

Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Type
Long-range bomber
Designer
Ilyushin
Primary user
Soviet Air Force
Number built
5,256
Manufactured
1940-1945
First flight
31 March 1936
Developed from
Ilyushin DB-3
Developed into
Ilyushin Il-6

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
bomber
Country of origin
Soviet Union
Developer
Ilyushin
Designed by
Sergey Ilyushin
Conflict
World War II
Image
Il-4 front view Moscow.jpg
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NATO reporting name
Bob
Commons category
Ilyushin Il-4
powered by
Tumansky M-87
armament
naval mine
first flight
1939-05-21
service entry
1940-00-00
service retirement
1952-00-00
location of creation
Irkutsk
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Encyclopedic overview

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The Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F) (Russian: Ильюшин Ил-4 (ДБ-3Ф); NATO reporting name: Bob) 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ilyushin Il-4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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