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The Ilyushin Il-40 (NATO reporting name: Brawny) was a two-seat Soviet jet-engined armored ground-attack aircraft. The first prototype flew in 1953 and was very successful except when it fired its guns as their combustion gasses disturbed the airflow into the engines and caused them to flameout or hiccup.

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