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Il-2 Shturmovik: Red Avenger [Audiobook] download free by Jason Nicholas Moore

Il-2 Shturmovik: Red Avenger Audiobook download free by Jason Nicholas Moore
  • Listen audiobook: Il-2 Shturmovik: Red Avenger
  • Author: Jason Nicholas Moore
  • Release date: 2015/8/2
  • Publisher: FONTHILL MEDIA LLC
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9781625450425
  • Rating: 9.75 of 10
  • Votes: 795
  • Review by: Mylah Petrie
  • Review rating: 8.58 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/10
  • Duration: 3H19M58S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-09
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, AIFF, MPEG4, WAV, WMA, Musepack, MP4, FLAC (compression ISO, CBR, RAR, ZIP, CPIO, CAB, TAR)
  • Total pages original book: 272
  • Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 20M54S (5.4 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik became the aerial representative of the Soviet response to the German invasion on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The Il-2 was designed as a low-level close-support aircraft capable of defeating enemy armour and other ground targets. Hardly a fighter, the Il-2 was exclusively engineered to take an enormous amount of punishment and still keep the pilot, rear gunner and critical mechanical components unharmed. In the end, the Il-2 would become the most important aircraft to the Soviet Union in the defence of the homeland against advancing hordes of panzers. At its height, production of the Il-2 hit a peak of 300 aircraft per month and variants boasted potent 23-mm cannon, 200 anti-tank bomblets and 4 x 132-mm rockets. The Il-2 became a highly respected and highly feared adversary. Soviet air crews dubbed the Il-2 as the 'Flying Tank' for its incredible ability to withstand a tremendous amount of damage and still release its payload only to return home intact. Not only did its rear gunners shoot down Luftwaffe aces thanks to its 12.7-mm machine gun, the Il-2 was also used as a fighter and German pilots were amazed to see 20-mm cannon shells bouncing off its armour plates. Crews were also known to weld additional armour to their Il-2s. The Shturmovik proved so effective that many Soviet crews were recipients of the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union. Even today, the Il-2 is regarded as the Russian equivalent of the Spitfire. By the war's end, some 36,000 Il-2s were produced and became the symbol of the Eastern Front.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Aircraft, Military Aircraft, Military Vehicles, World War 2 Books, Military Engineering, Military History
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 50.53 USD
  • Dimensions: 172.72x248.92x25.4mm
  • Weight: 975.22g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: SC, United States

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