Il-2M at the National Aviation Museum in Krumovo, Bulgaria The idea for a Soviet armored ground-attack aircraft dates to the early 1930s, when designed TSh-1 and TSh-2 armored biplanes. However, Soviet engines at the time lacked the power needed to provide the heavy aircraft with good performance. Il-2 was designed by and his team at the in 1938. TsKB-55 was a two-seat aircraft with an armoured shell weighing 700 kg (1,540 lb), protecting,,, and the. Standing loaded, the Ilyushin weighed more than 4,700 kg (10,300 lb), making the armoured shell about 15% of the aircraft's gross weight.

Uniquely for a World War II attack aircraft, and similarly to the forward fuselage design of the World War I-era Imperial German armored, all-metal biplane, the Il-2's armor was designed as a load-bearing part of the Ilyushin's structure, thus saving considerable weight. The prototype TsKB-55, which first flew on 2 October 1939, won the government competition against [ ] the and received designation BSh-2. The prototypes – TsKB-55 and TskB-57 – were built at Moscow plant #39, at that time the Ilyushin design bureau's base. The BSh-2 was overweight and underpowered, with the original 1,022 kW (1,370 hp) engine designed to give its greatest power outputs at high altitude.

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Because of this it was redesigned as the TsKB-57, a lighter single-seat design, with the more powerful 1,254 kW (1,680 hp) engine, a development of the AM-35 optimised for low level operation. The TsKB-57 first flew on 12 October 1940. The production aircraft passed State Acceptance Trials in March 1941, and was redesignated Il-2 in April. Deliveries to operational units commenced in May 1941. The 23 mm (0.91 in) armament of Il-2 was subject to a competition. One of the first 1940 photographs of the Il-2 show it equipped with two MP-6 23 mm developed by ( ()) at OKB-16.

The MP-6 gun weighed 70 kg and developed an initial muzzle velocity of 900 m/s. It operated on the principle and had a rate of fire of about 600 rpm. (The development of the MP-6 gun can be traced back to 1937. The initial version was tested in the spring of 1940 on a bought from Germany, because there was no suitable Soviet aircraft on which to mount it. In the summer of 1940 it was tested on the.) [ ] Factory trials of the MP-6 gun on the Il-2 were conducted in August 1940. In the early Il-2 prototypes, these guns were fed by 81-round clips. In flight, these clips sometimes became dislodged because of their large surface, which caused them to experience significant aerodynamic pressure.

[ ] Competitive tests were conducted in the spring of 1941 between the MP-6 gun modified to belt-fed and the newly developed, gas-operated, which had otherwise rather similar characteristics. The VYa-23 was declared the winner at this trial. Subsequently, in May 1941, development of the MP-6 gun was terminated and Taubin was arrested and summarily executed in October that year. Technical description [ ] The Il-2 is a single-engine, propeller-driven, low-wing monoplane of mixed construction with a crew of two (one in early versions), specially designed for assault operations. Its most notable feature was the inclusion of armor in an airframe load-bearing scheme.