This new opus also includes all of the previous Il-2 series content. The latest offering, Il-2 1946, adds 36 new planes, four new gigantic maps, over a hundred new ground objects, and nearly 200 new campaign missions. Oleg Maddox’s world famous Il-2 Sturmovik™ series of flight simulators continues to expand. The Russians called it 'the flying tank', the Germans called it 'Black Death', and you will call it the most exciting and realistic combat flight experience you've ever had. It was an anti-tank aircraft hailed by the Russians. Vital to the resistance was the Ilyushin Sturmovik, the IL-2. The Russians put up a fierce resistance which finally ground the Nazi war machine to a halt. On June 22, 1941, Hitler's German forces attacked Russia's 2,000 mile-long home front and advanced on Moscow.
