| The Su-2 belonged to the new generation of aircraft introduced into the Red Army Air Force shortly before WWII. This aircraft was designed in the A. Tupolev design bureau by a team headed up by P. Sukhoi as multi-purpose single-engined aircraft.
The first prototype (ANT-51) made its maiden flight in August 1937. In the initial period of war in the Soviet-German front Su-2 saw combat as short-range bombers and assault airplanes, and sometimes even as fighters.
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