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Su-32FN Fighter Navy Aircraft

Su-32FN Fighter Navy Aircraft
Su-32FN Fighter Navy Aircraft
Su-32FN (Fighter Navy) is the two-seat multi-role reconnaissance and strike export version of the Su-34 fighter-bomber. This a variant of the Su-27IB/Su-34 optimised for maritime strike. just one prototype had been seen - side number 44 by 2007. it had been} reportedly fitted with a 'Sea Dragon' avionics suite and may have MAD gear within the tailboom. it'll be able to carry sonobuoys on a centreline pod and two large ASM-MSS (Kh-41) 'Moskit' missiles. it's also been seen carrying two underwing 'Yakhont' anti-ship missiles.

The Strike Flanker was developed, originally, in the late the 1980s for the insistence of the pilot of tests Viktor Pugachev, who had the task to get the way to train for landings on an aircraft carrier. The prototype Su-32FN flew on 28 December 1994 with the pilots Igor Votintsev and Evgeny Reunov.

The Su-32FN has the same has aerodynamic style as the Su-33 and also the Su-35/37, of triple surface of command with the addition of canards within the front of the aircraft. However, it's a different airplane. All the fuselage, from the nose to the "sting" between the engines, was redesigned. The aircraft had been equipped with with landing gear strengthened in tandem with double wheels.