Anyone recognize this ?

[otftch]

I found this on the web with no imformation. Does anyone know what it is ? Looks like swept wing Su-25.
Ed

 

[evangilder]

It's an Ilyushin IL-102. At first I thought it was an Su-25 frogfoot, but I never saw a rear cockpit on the Sukhoi. According to what I have read, they only made one of them, and it was beat out by the Sukhoi.

 

[Torch]

Its a Soviet version of a F-117........

 

[VALENGO]

I´ve seen pics of that bird, if I´m right it is the latest development of the Shturmovik.

 

[tail end charlie]

I´ve seen pics of that bird, if I´m right it is the latest development of the Shturmovik.

It looks like one of my old scratch builds

 

[bobbysocks]

the plaque tells you exactly what it is...but i cant read russian.

 

[tail end charlie]

the plaque tells you exactly what it is...but i cant read russian.

It says "scratch built by tail end charlieov"

 

[vikingBerserker]

Pretty sweet looking!

 

[evangilder]

I´ve seen pics of that bird, if I´m right it is the latest development of the Shturmovik.

Yes, pretty much. It started with the Il-40 in the 1950s, then the Il-42 in the 60s before this one. In the end, the Su-25 was the winner. Soviet doctrine changed once nuclear weapons became a way to control the battlefield instead of ground attack. I shudder to think about that, but that was the thinking at the time.

 

[Njaco]

prototype X-Wing fighter

 

[buffnut453]

Now that's fugly!

 

[Tzaw1]

Grayscale pictures: Il-40 1st and 2nd prototype, Il-102 on the exhibition in Zhukovskiy.
from: Su-25 Gratch (Voyna v Vozdukhye - War in the Air, No 95)
Color from: Reaktyvnye samolyoti Vooruzhyonnyh Sil SSSR i Rossii (Jet Aircrafts of the Armed Forces of USSR and Russia)

 

[Gnomey]

Certainly an interesting aircraft 8)

 

[vikingBerserker]

It is interesting, apparently also had several small bomb bays in the wings.

 

[VALENGO]

Nice beast, still with tail barbette. Can you imagine it flying towards you full of bombs?

 

[evangilder]

I think the worst part would be getting hit with something that ugly!

 

[VALENGO]

I think the worst part would be getting hit with something that ugly!

 

[beaupower32]

I think the worst part would be getting hit with something that ugly!

First you would have to bribe/beg the bullet/missile to even go near it.