The Ikarus IK-2 was a Yugoslav monoplane fighter developed in the early 1930s by engineers Kosta Sivčev and Ljubomir Ilić.
Designed to replace obsolete biplanes, it featured a distinctive gull-wing configuration and fixed landing gear and was armed with a hub-firing 20 mm cannon and two synchronised machine guns.
First flown in 1935, the IK-2 was one of the earliest all-metal fighters in Yugoslavia.
Despite its advanced design for the time, only 12 production aircraft were built between 1938 and 1939, all assigned to the 6th Fighter Regiment of the Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force.
During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, eight IK-2s were still operational and saw limited combat.
After the country’s defeat, four surviving aircraft were transferred to the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia, but none survived the war.
