but this is the first production aircraft designed by pavel sukhoi, the su-2.underground nickname. it was a reconnaissance aircraft, an attack aircraft, a short-range bomber, and a special mission aircraft. in our country, unlike other aviation powers, there was no hard boundary between attack aircraft and bombers. this line is now continuing to develop. reconnaissance, observation of the general situation in the world, that is, they can patrol, stay for a long time in neutral waters during the cold war, these aircraft served as deterrent weapons; in fact, their flights, well, in parallel, let’s say, with american aircraft, made it possible to make it so that, in general, attempts to deliver heavy weapons of some kind are threatened. it’s interesting that he was completely invulnerable to the american air defense system, he bypassed it at a high altitude, but if he got into its field, he quickly got out of it, his speed in flight was very ... high, that’s two speeds of sound. experts believe a golden age aircraft manufacturing in the ussr is 1980. the ministry