Based on the analysis of archival materials of the country's governing bodies, the General Staff and Central Directorates of the RKKA , the organizations of the Air Force and the defense industry in the first volume of the "Red Army Stormtroopers" the process of formation of the image of the aircraft of the battlefield is considered in detail , Attack aircraft during the period, the Great Patriotic War . The book shows how this process was influenced by views on the nature of future war, achievements in the field of aircraft construction and the creation of a motor base in the USSR, traditional and original types of aircraft weapons, characteristic features of the development of targets on the battlefield. Detailed history of the creation of more than 100 types of attack aircraft in the USSR