Ilyushin IL-28 NATO Code: Beagle
Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at
10:58 pm
The Ilyushin Il-28 is a jet bomber aircraft that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Force. It was the USSR’s first such aircraft to enter large-scale production. The NATO reporting name for the type is Beagle for the bomber, Il-28R reconnaissance version, and Il-28T torpedo-bomber, and Mascot for the Il-28U trainer version. It was also licence-built in China as the Harbin H-5. Total production in the USSR was 6316 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 40 years after the Il-28 first appeared.
I really, really, REALLY miss the Wings channel…. Thanks for this little snippet.
@agoston01 Actually, its first flight occurred 6 years before B-57’s first flight
Soviet Camberra
we used this bad ass bird in the 60’s but when there’s a regime change in our country all russian birds got grounded !!!…we had tu-16 too (24 of ‘em) and some mig-21 they all had been scrapped back in 70’s because the new regime was a friendly allied to USA!