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
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bomber
- Operator
- Russian Naval Aviation
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Ilyushin DB-3
- Developer
- Ilyushin
- Designed by
- Sergey Ilyushin
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Il-4 front view Moscow.jpg
- Has use
- torpedo bomber
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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
Sources (3)
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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.