Usually rear gunners was lucky to see anything after 8 sorties without being KIA or wounded. Ratio was usually 5 gunners for every IL-2 pilot killed during the war. Just shows how vulnerable they was since the steel bathtub of armor didn't extend past the radio bay on a IL-2
"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life." - A̶d̶m̶i̶r̶a̶l̶ B̶e̶n̶s̶o̶n̶ Taff in Exile
Another excellent special taff, reminds me of when you flew these in the USSR career some years ago. Nice to see you flying these again, the IL-2 is one hell of a tough warbird, have to give the Soviets credit, they made a great warbird.. I've flown these numerous times myself in Moscow, Stalingrad and Kuban sectors and the combat is just incredibly good, never gets boring.. you can end up shot to pieces and the thing keeps going, and even if you can't get home, you can nurse this thing to the ground.. of course that depends on where you're hit but.. still takes the punishment as well as dishing it out. If you ever plan to fly another campaign with USSR a career focusing on these bad boys would be an epic addition to the channel. Anti-shipping, anti-tank, strikes deep behind enemy lines.. this thing can do it. Great special taff, that was excellent 👍
"Visibility is being a bit of an issue, now. I won't lie." No shit, Dick Tracey! 🤣🤣🤣 Taff, even though the Sturmovik has that legendary armor bathtub, get into the target - hit it with everything you've got - preferably in a single pass, two at most - then get the hell out. Hanging around, peppering low value targets like triple-A makes you a target - essentially saying, "Here I am. Shoot me!"
I fly (and mod) only Il-2 1946. Here I see that there is little if any use made of the three additional degrees of freedom offered by 6dof heaf tracking, they being the translational movements. In other words, your virtual noggin was essentially fixed in place, swivelling only. Surely GB offers full 6dof movement? In my Il-2 I can lean forward until my virtual nose almost rubs the crash pad. ;) This improves the sight picture notably. The other translations of L-R lean and up-down bobbing result in a much better view of the exterior world. I note the sudden, hard disappearance of numerous effects. For example, tbe cannon hits on the snowy ground have the geysers of dirt and snow wink out while the opacity is still pretty high. That looks much worse than having the opacity decrease more rapidly so that the effect particles fade fully or at least be more transparent at the point of disappearance. I liked your editing which brought us back a few moments in time to better see key events from different perspectives! 😊
"Cementer!!" watch the enemy waste all their ammo on your TANK ! :D I love the IL2 too. Like a block of cement with large fairy wings. BTW, your gunner had a white cane, he didn't see any enemy fighters on your tail.
prototype IL2 was actually designed and made with gunner position but was deleted from final design and reverted to single seater which they discovered was a mistake especially when planes deployed with severely untrained crews and nonfuctional 23mm cannons
😂 wow, denn Tod noch mal von der Schippe gesprungen. Dein Kamerad am Heckmaschinengewehr hatte da weniger Glück. Mach weiter so viel Erfolg beim nächsten Flug.
The i L -2 (Ilushin Sturmovik) was a very important aircraft in the Soviet war effort , superficially resembling the British Fairy battle,single engined and broad winged,but what contrast in survivability potensial, i have never dug deeper into the design concept of the battle, but it failed abysmally at whatever it was conceived to be able to militarily achieve,in such stark contrast to the Sturmovik!
6:23 are right that the Fairey Battle was a sad mid-1930's misreading of the future of air War and ended up being one of the worst planes ever to fly with the RAF. You are right that the IL2 was vastly more effective, and I understand the Germans called it 'the cementer' for it's ability to take punishment. The survivability.... ahh. They made a ton of them because a ton were shot down. Hard to say with the Soviets, good equipment could be let down by quality control, supplies or even tactics. I have read that even late in the war, german pilots would shoot down a flight leader because the other pilots had not been told the target! Fine plane though!
It's the TT-30. Made to replace the Nagant M1995 revolver sidearm, it was made in 1930 and took aspects from John Browning's 1903 semiauto pistol, and his 1911. The Makarov wasn't introduced until much after the war, in 1952.
Russia ended up getting 51,100 M-1911's during WW I early 1916 to late 1917 they was all commercial models though not military. And I seen 2 that Cole International imported during the late 90's into the country of origin the US. Then another that a family friend bought as surplus in 1962 that had Finnish army acceptance stamps on that they either captured during the Winter or Continuation war. So there was 1911's used by the Russians and then Soviets but they wasn't prevalent. And that was a 1911 because it had the rear comb beaver tail over the thumb and webbing area of the hand, something the TT-30 and 33 didn't have and then the wood grips are way to high to be the smaller bakalite black grips that would adorn a TT also.
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Usually rear gunners was lucky to see anything after 8 sorties without being KIA or wounded. Ratio was usually 5 gunners for every IL-2 pilot killed during the war. Just shows how vulnerable they was since the steel bathtub of armor didn't extend past the radio bay on a IL-2
"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."
- A̶d̶m̶i̶r̶a̶l̶ B̶e̶n̶s̶o̶n̶ Taff in Exile
To be fair, everytime Taff has taken off for a mission, he has always returned back to the ground.
The fancier planes I get, the more I love the Il-2
"Visibility is getting to be a bit of an issue, now, I won't lie."
Another excellent special taff, reminds me of when you flew these in the USSR career some years ago. Nice to see you flying these again, the IL-2 is one hell of a tough warbird, have to give the Soviets credit, they made a great warbird.. I've flown these numerous times myself in Moscow, Stalingrad and Kuban sectors and the combat is just incredibly good, never gets boring.. you can end up shot to pieces and the thing keeps going, and even if you can't get home, you can nurse this thing to the ground.. of course that depends on where you're hit but.. still takes the punishment as well as dishing it out. If you ever plan to fly another campaign with USSR a career focusing on these bad boys would be an epic addition to the channel. Anti-shipping, anti-tank, strikes deep behind enemy lines.. this thing can do it. Great special taff, that was excellent 👍
"Freezing his Jacobs off" ... hahaha, never heard that one before. Will certainly be using that moving forward.
You took some serious enemy fire. IL-2 is a sky tank.
A flying tank
The Germans would fire underneath them to take out the oil radiator in real life. That used to bring them down fairly quick.
"Visibility is being a bit of an issue, now. I won't lie." No shit, Dick Tracey! 🤣🤣🤣 Taff, even though the Sturmovik has that legendary armor bathtub, get into the target - hit it with everything you've got - preferably in a single pass, two at most - then get the hell out. Hanging around, peppering low value targets like triple-A makes you a target - essentially saying, "Here I am. Shoot me!"
11:54 Trees are no match for an Il-2!
soviat planes and tanks were made out of Starlinium 🤣 funny how they cleared out when they saw your side arm pointing out the open canopy😁
5:43 dude is tired of his job lmao
absolutely loved this game
Playin IL-2 in an IL-2. Nice
10:18 Nice Star Wars reference
I fly (and mod) only Il-2 1946. Here I see that there is little if any use made of the three additional degrees of freedom offered by 6dof heaf tracking, they being the translational movements. In other words, your virtual noggin was essentially fixed in place, swivelling only.
Surely GB offers full 6dof movement?
In my Il-2 I can lean forward until my virtual nose almost rubs the crash pad. ;) This improves the sight picture notably. The other translations of L-R lean and up-down bobbing result in a much better view of the exterior world.
I note the sudden, hard disappearance of numerous effects. For example, tbe cannon hits on the snowy ground have the geysers of dirt and snow wink out while the opacity is still pretty high. That looks much worse than having the opacity decrease more rapidly so that the effect particles fade fully or at least be more transparent at the point of disappearance.
I liked your editing which brought us back a few moments in time to better see key events from different perspectives! 😊
"Cementer!!" watch the enemy waste all their ammo on your TANK ! :D I love the IL2 too. Like a block of cement with large fairy wings. BTW, your gunner had a white cane, he didn't see any enemy fighters on your tail.
prototype IL2 was actually designed and made with gunner position but was deleted from final design and reverted to single seater which they discovered was a mistake especially when planes deployed with severely untrained crews and nonfuctional 23mm cannons
hi does this game have a decent player base with regards to online sim battles? im thinking of buying it but want to confirm beforehand thanks
😂 wow, denn Tod noch mal von der Schippe gesprungen. Dein Kamerad am Heckmaschinengewehr hatte da weniger Glück. Mach weiter so viel Erfolg beim nächsten Flug.
Ground crew at 5:41 is just use to this bullshit, heading to get a cup of joe and have a smoke.
The i L -2 (Ilushin Sturmovik) was a very important aircraft in the Soviet war effort , superficially resembling the British Fairy battle,single engined and broad winged,but what contrast in survivability potensial, i have never dug deeper into the design concept of the battle, but it failed abysmally at whatever it was conceived to be able to militarily achieve,in such stark contrast to the Sturmovik!
6:23 are right that the Fairey Battle was a sad mid-1930's misreading of the future of air War and ended up being one of the worst planes ever to fly with the RAF. You are right that the IL2 was vastly more effective, and I understand the Germans called it 'the cementer' for it's ability to take punishment.
The survivability.... ahh. They made a ton of them because a ton were shot down. Hard to say with the Soviets, good equipment could be let down by quality control, supplies or even tactics. I have read that even late in the war, german pilots would shoot down a flight leader because the other pilots had not been told the target!
Fine plane though!
by the end the plane was only flying because enough orks believed it could
Another great one
Xcellnt flying
Hello. What is this game on? Like ps 3 or something like that? It looks great.would love to try it. Thanks
You sure woke up a hornets nets there.
Hello my friend, do you using track ir or VR?
Average flying tank experience
Well, that was a very CFIT, or a smooth landing, as some would call it. Too bad you flew too fast and didn’t extend the gear in time.
Is Sturmovik avaulable for PS4.?
No AA suspens? 😮
Can you play this on a quest 2?
Any landing you can walk away from
Nr.1.... Love your videos Bro.....One love
I’m confused why is there a Russian pilot using an American pistol?
Lend-Lease. . . I don’t think we got any Tokarovs back.
Will IL-2 sturmovik run on windows 11? Anyone?
Damn, the devs of IL-2 really have some IL-2 bias
why does a Russian pilot have a model 1911 as a sidearm???
Not a 1911 but a Makarov.
It's the TT-30. Made to replace the Nagant M1995 revolver sidearm, it was made in 1930 and took aspects from John Browning's 1903 semiauto pistol, and his 1911. The Makarov wasn't introduced until much after the war, in 1952.
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While it wasn't a 1911, but a TT-30, it isn't that out of the ordinary with all the lend lease material Russia inherited from America.
Russia ended up getting 51,100 M-1911's during WW I early 1916 to late 1917 they was all commercial models though not military. And I seen 2 that Cole International imported during the late 90's into the country of origin the US. Then another that a family friend bought as surplus in 1962 that had Finnish army acceptance stamps on that they either captured during the Winter or Continuation war. So there was 1911's used by the Russians and then Soviets but they wasn't prevalent. And that was a 1911 because it had the rear comb beaver tail over the thumb and webbing area of the hand, something the TT-30 and 33 didn't have and then the wood grips are way to high to be the smaller bakalite black grips that would adorn a TT also.