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Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle
VASO in English, ВАСО Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle
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| Il-28 in Polish Air Force colours, with a man for scale. | |
| Role | Medium bomber |
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| National origin | Soviet Union |
| Manufacturer | Ilyushin Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (H-5) |
| First flight | 8 July 1948 |
| Introduction | 1950 |
| Retired | 1980s (Soviet Union) |
| Status | In limited service with the Korean People's Air Force |
| Primary users | Soviet Air Force People's Liberation Army Air Force Czechoslovak Air Force Polish Air Force Indonesian Air Force |
| Number built | over 6,635 |
| Developed into | Ilyushin Il-30 |
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History Voronezh Aircraft Production Association
Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle
The Ilyushin Il-28 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-28; NATO reporting name: Beagle) is a jet bomber of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Forces. It was the Soviet Union's first such aircraft to enter large-scale production. It was also licence-built in China as the Harbin H-5. Total production in the USSR was 6,316 aircraft, and over 319 H-5s were built. Only 187 examples of the HJ-5 training variant were manufactured. In the 1990s hundreds remained in service with various air forces over 50 years after the Il-28 first appeared. The only H-5s in service currently are approximately 80 aircraft which operate with the Korean People's Air Force. The Il-28 has the USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 27" and ASCC reporting name "Beagle", while the Il-28U trainer variant has the USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 30" and NATO reporting name Mascot
After a number of attempts at a four-engined bomber (the Lyulka TR-1 powered Ilyushin Il-22 and the unbuilt Rolls-Royce Derwent powered Ilyushin Il-24), the Ilyushin Design Bureau began development of a new jet-powered tactical bomber in late 1947
Design
The Il-28 was smaller than the previous designs and carried a crew of only three (pilot, navigator and gunner). It was also smaller than the competing design from the Tupolev design bureau, the three-engined (i.e. two Nenes and a Rolls-Royce Derwent) Tupolev Tu-73, which had been started long before the Ilyushin project, and flew before the design of the Il-28 was approved.[7]
Operational history
The Il-28 was widely exported, serving in the air arms of some 20 nations ranging from the Warsaw Pact to various Middle-Eastern and African air forces. Egypt was an early customer, and targeting Egyptian Il-28s on the ground was a priority for the Royal Air Force during the Suez Crisis and later by the Israeli Air Force during the Six-Day War, and Yom Kippur War.
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Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle
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Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle
General Info
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- Crew: 3
- Length: 17.65 m (57 ft 11 in)
- Wingspan: 21.45 m (70 ft 4 in)
- Height: 6.7 m (22 ft 0 in)
- Wing area: 60 m2 (650 sq ft)
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- Empty weight: 12,890 kg
- Gross weight: 18,400 kg
- Max takeoff weight: 21,200 kg
- Powerplant: 2 × Klimov VK-1A centrifugal-flow turbojet engines, 26.5 kN (6,000 lbf) thrust each
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- Maximum speed:902 km at 4,500m
- Cruise speed: 770 km/h (480 mph, 420 kn) at 10,000 m (33,000 ft)
- Range: 2,180 km
- Service ceiling: 12,300 m (40,400 ft)
Related development
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- Guns: 4 × Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannons (2 in nose and 2 in tail barbette)
- Bombs: 3,000 kg (6,600 lb) of bombs in internal bay (1,000 kg (2,200 lb) normal)
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Links to Youtube & Others
In February 2017, it was announced that Russia's United Aircraft Corporation had signed a contract with its subsidiary Ilyushin Aviation Complex for the development of a new version of Ilyushin Il-96-400 wide-body passenger airliner to compete with the Boeing 777-9 and Airbus A350-1000.
IIyushin IIl-28 Beagle
By January 2020, the first test-flight airframe was in final assembly and the wing and fuselage were joined, to be finished at the end of 2020 before a first flight in 2021
Youtube Link
Projected double-deck version of Il-96 for 550-600 passengers and powered by Kuznetsov NK-93 propfan engines. Following flight tests in 2007 the engines were removed and the aircraft was not developed further.
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