The outstanding role of assault aviation during the Great Patriotic War, the urgent need for aircraft of this type, identified in local wars in subsequent years, the entry into service of the US Air Force and Western countries of specialized attack aircraft A-10 and modified Alfa-Jet attack aircraft, Hawk and others, as well as the ongoing search abroad for the optimal version of a specialized attack aircraft, convince of the need for experimental work in the field of determining a domestic attack aircraft. OKB named after S.V. Ilyushin, who has experience in creating attack aircraft during the Great Patriotic War Il-2 and Il-10, as well as the Il-40 jet attack aircraft, developed under the leadership of General Designer G.V. Novozhilov and is completing the construction of a version of the experimental attack aircraft Il-102.