'Always thought of the Il-42/102 as sort of an "ugly-cute" machine. Many publications I've come across that mentioned the Il-102 would concentrate on laughing at it for having a tail gun, and it did lose out to the Su-25 for Soviet mass-production, but judging from what little I was able to find, the aircraft itself isn't bad.
What-if Polish machine. With LRMTS in the nose.
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HERE. I do not speak the language, however, so I have next to no idea about the text.