Su-27 Flanker Long-Range Fighter Aircraft

The Su-27 is a long-range air superiority fighter, comparable to the U.S. F-15 but superior in many respects. It's a twin-engined aircraft using a blended wing and fuselage, and twin tail fins. At airshows the Su-27 demonstrated an exceptional controllability at high angles of attack.

The Su-27 (NATO Code Name Flanker) is the front-line fighter aircraft designed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The export version is the Su-27SK. The aircraft is equipped to operate autonomously in combat over hostile territory, in escort of deep-penetration strike aircraft and in the suppression of enemy airfields. The aircraft gives general air defense in cooperation with ground and airborne control stations.

A naval version of the Su-27, as well known as the Su-33, with canards and folding wings, has been tested on Russia's first Aircraft carriers, and there as well two-seat attack version, the Su-27IB or Su-34, with side-by-side seating in a reshaped nose.

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MiG-29 Fulcrum Fighter Bomber Aircraft

The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Микоян МиГ-29) is the embodiment of a Russian military aircraft. The interceptor and multirole fighter bomber MiG-29 uniquely combines unbelievable maneuverability with great speed. the first MiG-29 airframes were delivered to the Soviet airforce in 1983. The MiG-29 Fulcrum was exported to numerous countries: till these days, over 1'500 aircraft in various versions of the air superiority fighter MiG-29 were built.

The MiG-29 fighter is equipped with seven external weapon hardpoints. The aircraft can carry: up to 2 R-27 air-to-air medium-range missiles; six R-73 and R-60 air-to-air short range missiles; four pods of S-5, S-8, S-24 unguided rockets; air bombs weighing up to 3,000kg and 30mm built-in aircraft gun with 150 rounds of ammunition.

The R-27 medium-range air-to-air missile is provided by the Vympel State Engineering design Bureau. The R-27 is offered in two configurations: the R-27R, that has a semi-active radar homing head and inertial navigation control with a radio link and the R-27T missile, which is fitted with an infrared homing head.

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Su-30MK Multirole Fighter Aircraft

Su-30M (MK-export version) is a customary Su-30 with the air-to-ground missiles which may carry twice the armament (8 tons) compared to the baseline Su-27. The Su-30 'export variant' of the formidable Su-27 'Flanker', can carry the newest Russian air-to-air missiles, as well the medium-range R-27 family, the short-range R-73 and also the new medium-range R-77 'AMRAAM-ski'. The Sukhoi-30K has a range in excess of 3,000km, which means it can simply patrol offshore installations without requiring aerial refuelling.

The aircraft is supplied with similar avionics and thrust vectoring as the Su-37, for superior combat agility and manoeuvrability. The aircraft is armed with precision anti-surface missiles and has a stand-off launch range of 120km.

The Su-30MK is powered by two Saturn AL-37FP thrust vectoring engines, as put in on the Su-37 aircraft. The aircraft's flight control system computes and manages the adjustment of the thrust and also the vectoring for every engine. The nozzles are directed through ±15° in pitch. In an emergency, like a system failure, the nozzles are returned hydraulically to a level flight position.

The aircraft normally carries 5,090kg of fuel in three integral fuel tanks in the fuselage and one integral split tank with each half put in in the outer wings. the most fuel capability of the aircraft is 9,400kg. The aircraft is provided with a flight refuelling probe and a buddy-buddy refuelling system.

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MiG-31 Foxhound Long-range Interceptor Aircraft

The MiG-31 Foxhound long-range supersonic interceptor aircraft, is a two-seat aircraft developed principally for the Russian and Kazakhstan Air Forces, was derived from MiG-25 Foxbat. The maiden flight of the MiG-31 happened in September 1975. Mikoyan is the designer and manufacturer of the MiG-31.

The most capable Russian air defense interceptor aircraft, the FOXHOUND contains with multiple-target engagement capability and was the first Soviet fighter to possess a real look-down, shoot-down capability. The N007 Zaslon radar was the first electronically scanned phased array radar to enter service in the world. It might scan 200 km forward and track 10 targets simultanieously.

MiG-31 supersonic aircraft provided with two Solovyev D-30F6 turbofan shaft engines with a take-off thrust 15,500kgf each. The dry thrust of the D-30F6 is 9,500kgf for every engine. The engine provides a most speed of Mach 1.23 at low altitude and increases the aircraft's range. The fuel consumption of the MiG-31 is incredibly high compared to different aircraft, principally because of its multiple roles.

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MiG-33 Fulcrum Fighter Bomber Aircraft

The MiG-33 Fulcrum fighter bomber aircraft is a modernisation of the MiG-29, with upgrades in many areas. One goals of the modernisation was adding multifunctionality with more growth of air-to-air and air-to-ground capabilities with high-precision weapons. It featured considerable growth of combat range owing to a rise in the internal fuel capability, along with better pilot-to-aircraft interface within the cockpit and introduction of different new-generation equipment.

The MiG-33 features more powerful, upgraded engines and also the quadraple-redundant fly-by-wire flight control system. a new onboard radar with a reprogrammable signal processor provides not only a larger aerial target detection range, is also capable of detection of sea and small-sized ground targets, ground mapping, terrain following and alerting to avoid ground obstacles.

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MiG-35 Fulcrum-F Air Superiority Fighter

The MiG-35 NATO reporting name Fulcrum-F is a highly manoeuvrable air superiority fighter, that was shown for the first time in August 2005 throughout the MAKS Air Show outside Moscow. The fighter is powered by RD-33 OVT thrust vectoring control engines. The RD-33 OVT engines offer superior manoeuvrability and enhance the fighter's performance in close air-to-air engagements.

The MiG-35 presents super-manoeuvrability, a capability to fly at supercritical angles of attack at increased level of sustained and available g-loads and high turn-angle rate, which needs a greater thrust-to-weight ratio and improved wing aerodynamic potency.

MiG-35 are going to be the first Russian aircraft to be fitted with active electronically scanned array radar. The Zhuk-MA's antenna consists of 160 modules, each with four receive-and-transmit modules. it's believed to supply a 160km (85nm) air target detection radius and 300km for surface ships.

The MiG-35 is powered by two RD-33MKBs which will be fitted with KliVT swivel-nozzles and a thrust vectoring control (TVC) system. The MiG-35's combination of TVC and advanced missile-warning sensors offers it the edge during combat.

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Su-30 Long-Range Interceptor Fighter

The Su-30 (Su-27P) is a two-seat long-range interceptor fighter that first flew in December 1989, and entered service with the Russian air forces in 1992. The Su-30 is created in Irkutsk. Largely primarily based on the Su-27UB two-seat trainer, it's a new radiolocation system which may transmit the positions of 10 targets to four different fighters at the same time. The the so-called Su-30 series of aircraft began with the Su-27M - in impact an idea demonstrator renamed the Su-35 - the Flanker has evolved into the Su-30 multirole fighter, the Su-32/34 tactical bomber, and also the Su-33 naval variant. The leading visual distinction between the Su-30K and the Su-30MK are canards just under & slightly behind the rear cockpit, TVC nozzles and a twin wheel nose landing gear.

The Su-30 compares favorably with Su-27UB in respect to the distribution of functions between the crewmen. the most distinction is that the workstations in the Su-30 are more similar to each other that clearly distinguishes this fighter from typical two-seat trainers. currently the rear-seat pilot/operator is able in a position to quickly input the coordinates of the new navigation points into the navigation system and airborne weapons system that's used to intercept targets in a long-range rocket engagement.

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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.

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Su-33 Flanker-D Naval Fighter

The Su-33 (Su-27K) (NATO reporting name: Flanker-D) is a carrier-based variant that first flew in may 1985, and entered service in Russian Navy in 1994. The air regiment comprising 24 fighters of the type was formedup on Russia's only} operating aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov.

The Su-33 can carry guided missiles like the H-25MP. The Su-33 is employed in both night and day operations at sea, and operate with the command center ship and with the Ka-31 early-warning helicopter. With the R-27EM missiles it will intercept antiship missiles. The air-to-ground capability seems to be comparable to the Su-27SK. it's reported to hold the Kh-31 (AS-17 `Krypton') ASMs underwing. though it was exhibited with an inert 4,500 kg Kh-41 (3M80 Moskit: mosquito) anti-ship missile on the centerline, this thought of as impracticable as an operational load.

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Su-34 Fullback Heavy Strike Fighter

The Su-34 code name fullback is a two seat strike variant that first flew in 1990. It features frontal wings and a large flattened nose with sharp edges (like the SR-71) cut back radar cross-section. This new ship-borne fighter is fitted with two AL-31FP engines with vectored thrust. Using them permits either the take-off distance or most take-off weight (MTOW) of the aircraft to be increased by 10-15 percent. in the nose is a new multi-mode phased-array radar with terrain-following and terrain-avoidance for low-level attack. The aircraft contains a distinctive big "sting" in the rear that contains the NO-14 radiolocation system, a radioelectronic countermeasures system, and a fuel tank. The NIIP NO-12 rearward radar that monitors enemy fighter activity behind the aircraft, and as required, direct R-73 short-range and R-77 medium-range AAMs at the targets.

The SU-34 are going to be one of the three high performance aircraft that are planned to make the core of the future Russian Air Force, together with the Yak-130 advanced trainer and a new 5th generations fighter aircraft (PAK-FA). The Strike Flanker was in competition with the Su-30 to switch the Su-24 and was successful because of the potential of growth of the avionics, since it had twice the area in relation to the opposite airplanes of the Flanker family. Su-34 is intended to defeat the F-15, F/A-18 and Eurofighter typhoon in air combat engagements.

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Sukhoi-35BM Multipurpose Fighter Aircraft

The Sukhoi-35BM is intended on the base of the engineering solutions applied for creation of the fifth-generation aircraft taking under consideration the experience of operation of the Su-30MK2 (Su-27SM) multipurpose aircraft family. The Su-35 combines each characteristics necessary for a modern fighter, such as: super-maneuverability, sophisticated active and passive sensor systems, high supersonic flight speed, high flight range, possibility to rearrange aircraft interaction; and characteristics of a decent combat aircraft, namely: high combat load, wide range of the "air-to-surface" missiles, sophisticated multichannel electronic warfare system, reduced radar observability, air-defense break capability at a low level flight.

The Su-35BM (Bolshaya Modernizatsiya - big Modernization), undertook alterations in its fuselage, weight, RCS, embarked avionics, radar and bombs. The Su-35 aircraft created by "Sukhoi design Bureau", however its production is mastered at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association named after Gagarin. The aircraft is a 4++ generation aircraft using technologies of the fifth generation. Sukhoi claims they create it superior to any other 4th generation fighters currently below development worldwide.

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Su-37 Terminator Super-Flanker Fighter

Su-37 Super Flanker is a super-maneuverable thrust vectoring fighter derived from an Su-35 prototype. The last Su-35 prototype - number 711 - was fitted with Lyulka Saturn AL-31FU engines that incorporate two-dimensional thrust-vectoring (TVC) nozzles. Externally same as the Su-35 - apart from the nozzles - the Su-37 contains with a side-stick controller and has demonstrated some superb manoeuvres, including an entire 360deg Cobra - called a Kulbit.

The Su-37 represents the latest level of capability compared with the Su-27 and Su-35. The Su-37 test aircraft made its maiden flight in April 1996 from the Zhukovsky flight testing center close to Moscow. This spectacular single-seat all-weather counter-air fighter and ground attack aircraft, derived from the SU-27, has an updated airframe containing a high proportion of carbon-fiber and Al-Li alloy. The engines, avionics and armaments are also enhancements on those originally put in in the SU-27.

This single-seat and/or two-seat multi-role combat aircraft was first shown in model form at 1991 trade shows. Some wind tunnel tests completed as the aircraft entered the basic design stage in 1992, with foreign partners being explore for development. not like the other twin-engine Su-27 derivatives, the Su-37 concept originally featured one Soyuz/Tumansky turbofan engine rated at 180 kN (40500 lb st) thrust with afterburning. What finally emerged from the design method was an excellent maneuverable version of the Su-35 with a combine of AL-37FU afterburning turbofans with axisymmetric, steerable nozzles and thrust vector control (TVC). When the Su-37 was shown at Farnbrough in 1996 it stole the show, performing an astounding aerobatic display.

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SU-47 Berkut Experimental Fighter

For extremly manoeuvrability and high angles of attack, the SU-47 Berkut (Golden Eagle), initially called the S-37, uses a forward-swept wing configuration. The Su-47 completed the first stage of flight trials in December 2001.

The Su-47 has extraordinarily high agility at subsonic speeds, enabling the aircraft to alter its angle of attack and its flight path terribly quickly. It also retains it's high manoeuvrability in supersonic flight.

The design of the terribly high manoeuvrability prototype relies on the avionics and aerodynamics technologies developed for the Su-27 upgrade programme.

Some of the systems and part designs from the Su-27, (the all weather supersonic fighter aircraft with Nato reporting name Flanker), have been employed in the Su-47, for example the design of the canopy, landing gear, number of the avionics and also the near-vertical tails.

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Su T-50 PAK-FA Russian 5th Generation Fighter

In early 2002 Sukhoi was chosen as prime contractor for the planned Russian 5th-generation fighter is named the PAK FA [ Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsyi - Future Air complex for Tactical Air Forces]. This intermediate category twin-engined fighter was to be larger than a MiG-29 and smaller than a Su-27. The new fighter was said meant to be about the same size as the US F-35 JSF, with a primary air superiority mission and ground attack and reconnaissance being secondary missions.

The aircraft was to feature a long and extended combat radius, supersonic cruise speed, low radar cross section, supermaneuverability, and the ability to make short takeoffs and landings.

Although T-50 specifications still classified, fragmentary information on its engines imply that this heavy-duty fighter will have a take-off weight of over 30 metric tons and can be close in dimension to the well-known Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker. The new fighter's exterior was designed using Stealth technology, also called LO technology (low observable technology).

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