IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is a World War II combat flight simulator released in 2013. A combined effort of 1C Company, the publisher of "", and 777 Studios, developers of "Rise of Flight", it inherits the name "IL-2 Sturmovik" from the "IL-2 Sturmovik" and is included in the franchise series (2001-2011) although it runs a development of the "" game engine, known as Digital Nature and originally created in 2009. The game is a combat flight simulation set during the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), specifically the time period between Operation Uranus and the surrender
Bombing of Stalingrad Stalingrad. During the Battle of Kalach, "Fliegerkorps VIII" provided the German XIV and XXIV Panzer Corps' with decisive air support as the Soviet 62nd Army was encircled and destroyed west of Kalach from 8–11 August through the application of superior German firepower from all sides and especially from above. 50,000 prisoners were taken by the Germans, 1,100 Soviet tanks were destroyed or captured and the road to Stalingrad was laid bare. LI Army Corps penetrated across the Don north of Kalach on 21 August, forcing the surprised and helpless Red Army formations to the south to fall back on Stalingrad.