Unlike their Western counterparts, the VVS made little use of the P-47 as a ground-attack aircraft, depending, instead, on their own widely produced—with 36,183 examples built during the war—special-purpose, armored ground-attack aircraft, the Ilyushin Il-2. At the end of the war, Soviet units held 188 P-47s.
Unlike their Western counterparts, the VVS made little use of the P-47 as a ground-attack aircra,ft, depending, instead, on their own widely produced—with 36,183 examples built during the war—special-purpose, armored ground-attack aircraft the Ilyushin Il-2. At the end of the war, Soviet units held 188 P-47s.