I’d say Attack would actually be the second most important aspect for a combat aircraft. The most important aspect being “fly”

Most importantly it must fly! There are many aircraft that didn’t even do that very well.

What is the most important thing a military combat aircraft needs to be able to do? Being able to fly seems to me to be the obvious answer. Or maybe it can drive around killing people like that Stuka from Carmageddon 2.

With the il102 in the 80s Ilyushin tried to return to the business of constructing battle planes. Only problem was: the Su-25 was already in service.

It looks like something straight outta Pre-war Fallout

The ill-fated Supermarine Swift suffered from the same gun problem. When an early varient had two extra Aden Cannons bunged on, they were mounted right at the nose. Result? As with the Il-40: flame- ut for every burst of gunfire! I found this out from a neighbour who is now 90 and who did his National Service with a Swift squadron!

It took a long time to figure out boundry layer aerodynamics and intake design. Its why the 50s projects were some of the most fascinating

MiG-9 can make a good company for IL-40, 'cause it wasn't able to shoot its guns without speed and altitude restrictions

F86 Sabre: Nothing can scare me! Meanwhile IL-40 with a sawed-off double barrel shotgun: 😏

Interesting that they kept the tailgun. The Navy's BuAero had determined that a tailgun and gunner were obsolete by the mid '40s. Both the Douglas AD-1 Skyraider and Martin AM-1 Mauler were designed as single-seaters early in development.

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Dude, I’ve never heard of this thing. It’s so badass wtf… u earned that subscriber

I really like the Il-102, it's a shame that they never put it into production. It's the true definition of a "flying tank". 😊👍

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In Soviet Union, Air Fresheners are always RED, comrade!!!

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what is the most important thing a military combat aircraft needs to be able to do? fly, obviously! it would just be an oddly shaped car if it couldn't do that.

Honestly, it looks like the most bad ass ground attacker i ever seen. The way they moved the engines forward and down doubles as protection for the Pilot and vital equipment.

0:08 here is the broad answer: it must be able to complete its mission and bring the crew home intact.

At least it doesn't talk like a robot, and has interesting content. 😊👍

I honestly thought from the sketches, that the wings could collapse in on themselves. That would make storage and transport of them easier!

So knowing how pilots and ground crews have a way of nicknaming craft, I wonder what this thing would have been called if it had been put into full production.

I don't know why but the first line got a song stuck on my head. "Hey everyone, did the news get around bout a guy named Butcher Pete"

great video. subbed!

Wow those 6 cannons actually have around the same rate of fire as two GAU-8/A rotary cannons, albeit with a smaller projectile, but that's still a lot of firepower.

I swear the IL-40 is the William Afton of military aviation. It always comes back.

Finally it was offered for sale as IL-102, but everyone preferred Su-25.

very enjoyable video

What is the most important thing a military combat aircraft needs to do? Fly, unlike the Bloch 150 of the Christmas Bullet!

very interesting video

Never saw this one. Great.

Very interesting video on a very strange looking plane.

In the USSR, there was another IL-76-40 aircraft project of the early 1970s, but it was not put into production due to the high cost of manufacturing the aircraft had 2 jet engines and a variable sweep wing, the interest was that the aircraft could fly at an extremely low speed of about 90 km/h. This it was achieved by changing the angle of the wings, it looked like a butterfly, that is, there were two pairs of wings, at high speeds they took the shape of an arrow, and at low speeds it looked like reverse scissors blades were supposed to, that the aircraft will be able to deliver cargo to the military technical to hard-to-reach areas for aircraft landing

Soviets loved wing fences on their aircraft to prevent airflow from defecting to the wingtips.

Damn that first sketch actually kinda resembles the Su-25 and could have been solid.

I would say that the most important thing a military aircraft need to do is fly. If it can't fly, it's not an aircraft.

The longest lived aircraft that was never taken into service? And wow, if it could hold its own against MiG-17 like that, they really should have tried making a fighterversion of it. Remove 3/4 of the armor and, damn, you should have a pretty darn good flier... Re-equip it as a missile launch platform and make it the first air superiority fighter/interceptor? This was actually a very fascinating subject...

First answer that popped into my head was "survive" then after 3 seconds of thought "protect the pilot and crew" . A bit meta maybe?

The SU-25 was & is a great ground support aircraft

Most important: fulfil its role.

Being able to fly in the first place is kind of really important, especially for an aircraft...

I wonder if that problem with exhaust gases from the cannons was what contributed to the A10 Warthog having it’s engines mounted in such a novel way?

Nobody thought of wingtip armament pods like the F89 scorpion? Cheapest fix!

Hey, this is why we call things “experimental”. You pretty much figure out problems at first as you go then just keep improving until you have something that works. Sometimes you end up with something that works really good. Sometimes you end up with something that, just works, but barely. And sometimes you end up with something that just stops receiving government funding.

The Prototype looks like it was inspired by the proposed improved ME262

Many responses say it must fly, but an aircraft wouldn't be an aircraft if it couldn't fly. I would say the most important is that the aircraft must be able to keep the flight computer (the pilot) alive, for without a pilot all else is moot.

Piston driven prop plane. Sir, do you even A2 Skyraider? That thing saved friendly downed pilot lives, took enemy lives by the bushel, and was piston driven prop plane from the end of the 40s. It had it's greatest run in Vietnam. The 1960s. An airplane driven by air-cooled radial, was attacking and annihilating ground targets while rescuing downed pilots. It could handle all pak 1-3 targets at least, and was deadly accurate With attack aircraft the question is: how slow can you go? A2 sub sonic, performed great tons of armor and durability F100? Can drop willy Pete or napalm on our own guys because when you're going 800mph below 500 ft, I believe there's a chance to misidentify the target as everything in front of you is a blur Illyushin would design some of their more successful Aircraft over the years along with Mikoyan Every military builds ugly birds that don't perform well. Hence the needs for test pilots and the process of development of ones military technology

The engine flaming out due to the guns smoke+gasses getting in sounds just like the issue with A-10 development. In that case, i think that every time the cannon is firing, the engines are continually fed spark to keep them going/reignite asap.

The most important thing is that it has to be able to be used in some way!

I am starting to spot a certain trend in Soviet engineering...

The first time you said the name of the plane, your pronounciation made me understand "Illusion Il-40". What I find quite funny for that aircraft. 😆

Most important thing a military aircraft needs to do is fly.

Attacker than can't attack. Water than can't flow. The sunrise at the west. This is such an army thing

I’d say the most important thing a military combat aircraft needs to do is be able to fly

Most important thing a military aircraft needs to do is get the pilot home. Planes can be replaced as easily as the factory can churn them out experienced pilots are a lot harder to come by.

How did the rear gunner actually aim the rear facing autocannon? Some kinda optical tunnel system? Walking tracers only?

The Mig-9 also had problems with the gun choking the engines, which were not satisfactorily solved.

Can we appreciate the idea of a ground support tactical nuclear missile.

The most important thing a military combat aircraft needs to do is the job it’s designed to do.

The combined rate of fire of 4800-7200 rounds per minute rivals common Gatling guns, but with a different mode of failure and wear mitigation, and a more "shotgun-like" dispersion pattern, rather than the Gatling gun's "If one round misses, they're all likely going to be off-target". It's probably heavier and requires more maintenance to have 6 individual guns, but it seems like they could also be more useful if they were pulled from the plane and mounted on "Technicals", if a given situation were to become so dire, or for a renewed life after the plane's obsolescence. The American solution, which is the M-61 Gatling gun, can really only be placed on another airplane, since it is the standard sidearm. We don't even see them using older ones that have been slowed down and put on armored vehicles for airfield defense, and the CIWS systems probably use factory fresh guns, because they must hit a smaller target, and accuracy is supercritical... Then again, the available in-field footage of CIWS in action is that they tend to run out of ammo without hitting anything, so maybe they are using "refurbished (sham scammed)" guns.

Wonder how the rear gunner will eject with that cable above his escape hatch and the tall vert.stabilizer some 3m. away?

That looks like a cold war propaganda drawings, thats how we drew the USSR and I am pretty sure they drew us about the same.

_What is the most important thing a military combat aircraft needs to be able to do?_ Flying. Everything else is optional and depending on its role in combat. 🙂

I really want the IL-40P in Warthunder

Yes! They could have used the green tree airfreshener! Those were invented in 1952 so were available! 😂

Shit like this would be a cool thing to add to warthunder as a event vehicle.

Hello could you please do a video on the Messerschmitt me 334 or the Messerschmitt m 34?

You ever wondered why the Soviets didn’t just mount the guns next to the engines like the f15?

It needs to bloody fly mate! They tried some that didn't

I'd say It's supposed to perform a mission which changes the outcome in favour of the deploying side, i.e. if the aircraft's combat role is to be an airstrip decoy, then it doesn't need to be particularly fast, maneuverable or have large firepower... :)

Concorde had a similar issue at the sound barrier. Blast can be a headache.

Nice to know that the USAF was not alone in the pea-brain scheme of completely abandoning ground attack in favor of nukes.

that rear turret 😵

Nuclear weapons as close ground support seems a little over the top, just how close can you drop a nuclear weapon to your own troops without actually killing them as well.

Its kind of funny to think that this archaic piece of technology is actually newer than the T54s and 55s Russia is fielding right now, today.

Who would have thought the ilyushin would be an illusion

Personally I would say that the most important thing for _any_ aircraft of _any_ type, is to be able to fly. All else is secondary. edit: I don't mean this as a joke either. Just look at the plethora of so-called aircraft that could never take off.

All sizzle and no steak

The most important thing a military combat aircraft needs to do is be able to fly. If it can't get off the ground, it is worthless. .

0:13 I’d agree with HALL9000ish the MOST IMPORTANT thing a combat AIRCRAFT has to do is FLY 0:13

My first thought when I saw the prototype was inspiration heavily borrowed from the ME 262 HG III concept

The ability to fly is number 1 for me...

Looks like it would fit in with the aircraft from the fallout games. I like it. I just googled the Il102 and it looks just as mad

i would say the #1 thing a military combat aircraft has to do is; fly. it may have other requirements after that, but if it doesnt fly, well, its a flop lol.

I dunno I guess to be able to perform its assigned mission set that it was intended to perform after the final design stage cuz from step 1 to the finish of the design the missionset/s might differ because of changes in politics or strategy

No I would say "Fly" is the most important thing for any aircraft to do.

Wow, that's a rare bird you find there.

You see, comrade, its a GROUND Attack Aircraft And if it hits you on the ground, while starting/landing/crashing, you will go down. It works as intented.

The exhaust gas of the guns causing the engine to stutter, wasn't that the except same problem on the mig 9. (Or at least one of them)

The Mig 9 had basically the same issue

What happened with the double barrel planes?

So you're telling me this plane initially had the same issue as the MiG-9?

IL40-P...as in "Pig" as it looks like a snout! The MiG-15/17 had the same gun configuration right below the intake with the barrel in front of the intake? Did that cannon not put out enough to foul the intake?

The most important thing is to be able to FLY and not CRASH.

0:18)The Flying Boxcar. C119. 4:41)About the same rate of fire as the Civilian Model Thompson Submachine gun. 800 rounds per minute. 13.1313 a second. 50 round drum magazine was "dry' in about 3.5. 100 round was less than 8 seconds of continued fire. Navy Model is 600 RPM. "Dry" quicker. Box magazines hold 30-32 rounds.

Whilst its not 100% relevant to the IL40, one thing hawker hunters had a problem with, was the spent casings being ejected, and subsequently being sucked into the compressor blades. They did learn from this though, and later marks have big bulges on the underside specifically to collect spent casings

And that, my friends, is exactly why the venerable A-10 Thunderbolt II looks the way it does! 🤟😁

0:11 Carry out its assigned task.

2:03 Sergey - this name perfectly describes Elton John