Thanks Sita nice update!

Thank you for the update, TD! And thank you for the hard work you have put in this year! The U2 looks great aswell! :)

I wish you a Happy New Year! :grin:

it is not only my merit ...

even less my merit

... my good friends make more then me in that dirrection)

One of the amazing stories is that of the all female Light Night Bomber regiments known as the "night witches." These ladies accomplished feats of courage many times over, sometimes flying several missions per night. It's great to now see the Po-2/U-2 as a flyable! Thank you, T.D., for this famous airplane. It gives honor and remembrance to all the brave Russian women who participated in the Great Patriotic War.

Can we get a description and role of each version of this plane (in IL-2)?

there was three type of U2 ...

1- U-2 1933 ... trainer .. ( with copilot like in P-5 ) can be used like Trainer .. or Drop ship for 1 paratrooper ...

it's plane without defense weapon ...

it can be communication aircraft or recon plane
but ... also ... it have few variants of drop amunition ... for example ... AO-10 or fab 50 ... and it is not finish yet... you will be have few type of droping cargo containers for supply mission ... para container.. and low level container... and like i said earlier ... one paratrooper ... like some kind of spy or saboteur or just for parachute Jumps trainings ... or some figure on parade by para troopers)))

and one thing ... Med Evac capsula .. for evacuate injured from behind enemy lines or from front line ...

2 - U-2 1936 ... this plane have defense MG DA... and more wide assortiment loadouts than previous ... plus bombing sight ... and even few RS)) ...

plus all not lethal loadouts like cargo and other things which have U-2 1933 ...

3 - U-2 LNB ( which can be called Po2 ... )

more wide viriants of bomb loaduts ...even cluster bombs
and Deffense MG Shkas

you guys rock.... been playing this game since 2002...

Thanks Sita! That's exactly the kind of information I was hoping for.

Of course, Thank ALL Team Daidalos on their effort!!!

Can I ask how many members of the team are active in the development of this and future patches for IL-2?

I have been playing this game from 2002 and even with all this new sims with better graphics I still think that Il-2 1946 is still the best.
AI is the deadliest in any sim!
All that is because Team Daidalos effort and I can not thank you enough for keeping this game alive!

our team pass through rough time ... and for now not many people of us stay in real work ..
most of our Heroes which stay in source of DT at current moment of time not in touch with us ... but they will be always in our hearts ... and i keeping hope alive that some day they will come back ))
They was for us like living legend and take an example from them)

So ... for now ...in active development some about 8 or 9 persons... youngest generation)