IL-2 SHTURMOVIK & GAZ-67B : TAMIYA : 1/48 SCALE : IN BOX REVIEW
IL-2 SHTURMOVIK The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War. The word shturmovík (Cyrillic: штурмовик), the generic Russian term for a ground-attack aircraft, became a synecdoche for the Il-2 in English sources, where it is commonly rendered Shturmovik, Stormovik[3] and Sturmovik.[4] To Il-2 pilots, the aircraft was known by the diminutive “Ilyusha”. To the soldiers…
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