The Ilyushin Il-4 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.
Il-4 in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, Russia
Ilyushin Il-4 in Finnish service; aircraft number DF-25. Photo taken in April 1944.
The Soviet Air Forces was one of two air forces belonging to the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Servi
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. In 1938, the Ilyushin design bureau redesigned the Ilyushin DB-3 to ease production and improve its…
Pilot Ivan Kozhedub during the Second World War
Soviet WWII airmen reenactors on parade in 2020.
An air-to-air right underside rear view of a Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 aircraft carrying four AA-6 Acrid missiles
Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 fighter aircraft in 1989