The IL-2 – The Flying Tank

Nice article. I would like to read more like this.

Also I want to add this since its about the IL-2:



This is a riport and video footage about a IL-2 wreck that was found in Lake Balaton here in Hungary in 1999.  After it was recovered they have taken it to the "Museum of Hungarian Aviation". http://en.wikipedia....garian_Aviation

(The IL-2 wiki page also mentions this http://en.wikipedia....raft_On_Display)

There where other planes taken out of the lake too and suposed to be a few more in there because of the air battles above the lake.


Ps.:
How do I make that the youtube link is just a simply link instead of a embedded video?

Edited by Crono_X, 06 February 2013 - 06:51 PM.

For those of you, who don't understand hungarian (witch is the most of you).
The part in the video from 1:19 talks about the recovering of the aircraft, witch was presumably shot down in 1944 december.
But the part before that, is what truly is important. It talks about, that many aircraft have been shot down above the lake Balaton, and are still inside it. It mentions that in the recent years (this video was made in 1999) 3 noteworthy planes have been recovered. A Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber, a Junkers Ju 88 multi-role aircraft, and now the two-seater IL2. In the report they say, that at the end of the year of 1944, the battles have waged above and around the skies of the lake Balaton almost every day.

Edited by Dragn_X, 06 February 2013 - 07:28 PM.

Saw one in the museum in Belgrade.It truly keeps to its name ‘‘The flying tank’’

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i really wanna fly this machine  

I think this aircraft is so good as the AK47. With other words assume.

tartanspartan, on 06 February 2013 - 09:39 PM, said:

The real "flying tank" was Hs 129
I finally would like to see this game German planes are superior, like they were!
Soviet did some good copying.

sot159, on 18 February 2013 - 01:25 PM, said:

There is a nice copy again.... StG-44 is the real thing.

German weapons were copied so many times by so many countries......
Just were renamed after war. Nobody wanted to stat openly but everybody knows by now.

ZWC, on 04 March 2013 - 07:49 AM, said:

And what would be the ^^$%&^&% point of the game then  !??! In an online game,esspecially an arcade such  as WoWp ,ballance is what's important.If one nation has clearly supperior planes ,WTF will be the point of playing the other nations   .

Not to mention,that the USSR did produce some great planes during the war-their main problem was theineffective pilots which were no match for the better trained and more experienced german pilots.

@ zwc: everytime the Same boring flame!
if you like an airplane you would fly it even it isnt as powerfull than in history.
like in wot "mimimi, my Tiger is too weak...-threads" and other topics with the Same content.
sad to see, that the same senseless dicussion Starts here again.
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They over-used Il-2's design in 10 other variants such as Il-8 and Il-10...