General info for IL-28

  • Country USSR
  • Vehicle role Jet Bomber
  • Rank 5
  • Battle rating in
    • arcade battles 8
    • realistic battles 8
    • simulator battles 8

Extended parameters

Arcade Battles
  • Price 690,000€
  • Wp bonus 120%
  • Exp bonus 196%
  • Max speed 905 km/h
  • Turn time 48.0 s
  • Training cost 200,000€
  • Climb speed 20 m/s
  • Airfield len 1480 m
  • Free repairs 10
  • Mass per sec (shot) 5.93 kg/s
  • Max altitude 11500 m
  • Max speed alt 4500 m
  • Weapon presets 5
  • Full repair cost 5,770€
  • Weapon
    23 mm NR-23 cannon x2 (Ammo: 200) Reload Time 40s
    Turret: 23 mm NR-23 cannon x2 (Ammo: 450) Reload Time 40s
    100 kg FAB-100 (forged) bomb x12
  • Full repair time crew 5d 06h
Realistic Battles
  • Price 690,000€
  • Wp bonus 220%
  • Exp bonus 196%
  • Max speed 905 km/h
  • Turn time 48.0 s
  • Training cost 200,000€
  • Climb speed 20 m/s
  • Airfield len 1480 m
  • Free repairs 10
  • Mass per sec (shot) 5.93 kg/s
  • Max altitude 11500 m
  • Max speed alt 4500 m
  • Weapon presets 5
  • Full repair cost 6,597€
  • Weapon
    23 mm NR-23 cannon x2 (Ammo: 200) Reload Time 40s
    Turret: 23 mm NR-23 cannon x2 (Ammo: 450) Reload Time 40s
    100 kg FAB-100 (forged) bomb x12
  • Full repair time crew 8d
Simulator Battles
  • Price 690,000€
  • Wp bonus 190%
  • Exp bonus 196%
  • Max speed 905 km/h
  • Turn time 48.0 s
  • Training cost 200,000€
  • Climb speed 20 m/s
  • Airfield len 1480 m
  • Free repairs 10
  • Mass per sec (shot) 5.93 kg/s
  • Max altitude 11500 m
  • Max speed alt 4500 m
  • Weapon presets 5
  • Full repair cost 5,880€
  • Weapon
    23 mm NR-23 cannon x2 (Ammo: 200) Reload Time 40s
    Turret: 23 mm NR-23 cannon x2 (Ammo: 450) Reload Time 40s
    100 kg FAB-100 (forged) bomb x12
  • Full repair time crew 7d

IL-28 / statistics for the last 1 month

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Arcade Battles
  • Battles 54
  • Win rate 52.38%
  • Air frags per battle 0.28
  • Air frags per death 0.28
  • Ground frags per battle 1.29
  • Ground frags per death 1.43
Realistic Battles
  • Battles 348
  • Win rate 50.54%
  • Air frags per battle 0.24
  • Air frags per death 0.28
  • Ground frags per battle 0.3
  • Ground frags per death 0.39
Simulator Battles
  • Battles N/A
  • Win rate N/A
  • Air frags per battle N/A
  • Air frags per death N/A
  • Ground frags per battle N/A
  • Ground frags per death N/A

Wiki info about IL-28

Official War Thunder wiki

An all-metal cantilever monoplane with a crew of three. Created at OKB S.V. Ilyushina. S.V. Ilyushin put forward his preliminary design for the Il-28 on 12 January 1948. By 8 July 1948, the test pilot V.K. Kokkinaki took the Il-28 out for its maiden flight. It was equipped with two turbojet Rolls-Royce Nene engines. On 30 December 1948, the Il-28 underwent in-plant tests with the Russian series-produced RD-45F engine – a licensed version of the English engine. But the decision on the aircraft's fate was delayed until 14 May 1949, when the Council of Ministers decided to increase the Il-28's speed to 900 km/h by installing more powerful VK-1 engines with a maximum thrust of 2,700 kgf. In only three months, on 8 August 1949, the Il-28 took its maiden flight with the VK-1 engines. The turbojet VK-1 engines were located under the wing in streamlined engine nacelles. The Il-28's armament included two turrets – one to the fore and one to the rear. Two frontal 23 mm Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannons with 100 shells each were mounted in a fixed position in side compartments in the front fuselage. The pilot acted as gunner for the frontal cannons. The movable Il-K6 tail turret also contained two 23 mm Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannons, these with 225 shells each. The aircraft could carry bombs of various calibers internally, up to and including the FAB-3000. Its bomb compartment could contain 12 FAB-100 bombs or eight FAB-250s, or between two and four FAB-500s, or a single FAB-1500 or FAB-3000. The Il-28 became the most mass-produced jet-powered bomber. The aircraft was easy to manufacture and reliable in use. It was in series production between the years of 1950 and 1956. The Il-28 reached peak production during the Korean War: in 1953, six plants were building them at once. In total, 4,405 Il-28 bombers were produced. In the 50s, the Il-28 was the main front-line bomber in the Soviet Air Forces. The Il-28 was widely distributed beyond the borders of the USSR. It served in the air forces or air-defense forces of: Algeria, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, East Germany, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Yemen, China, North Korea, Morocco, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Syria, Somalia, Finland and Czechoslovakia. The People's Republic of China and Czechoslovakia produced them under license (with the designation B-228).