illushen, that’s what he wrote, by the way, about this plane.s a need to create armored attack aircraft or in other words. flying tank, that’s what they called it at the front, which had all its vital parts armored, our design bureau decided to make the armor work in the body of the aircraft, that is, to make it the working body of this very machine. until now, designers have put armor on the frame only for the purpose of protection. the complexity of the task turned out to be in choosing the thickness of this steel sheet, so that, well, so as not to overload this very machine in vain, in march of the forty-first year , the first flight of a serial storm aircraft took place in voronezh single-seat version, the industry believed that in order to increase the number of aircraft per day, it was necessary to produce the aircraft without a gunner, this later led to dire consequences, despite the terrible resistance of ilyushin, the body version was still released only with a pilot without a gunner in the back. but this led to the fact that in the fir