Sukhoi : The Flankers

Jai Hind everyone

I am Aryan Jaiswal, it's an honour and privilege to Spread my love for Fighter Aircrafts and I hope so to expand your knowledge for the same

Today I will brief you all about the SUKHOI Series of Russia 

SUKHOI a aircraft development company from Russia is highly dominant in designing highly manuverable fighters but now all aircraft companies of Russia are merged with one another and they work as United aircraft corporation

It has been through a tremendous evolution starting from 1939 Sukhoi Su 1 to 2020 Sukhoi su 57

                                                         The Indian Top Gun 

Its founder is Pavel Sukhoi

 

Who aspired to develop high value asset for his country Russia

The most important series in Sukhoi is the Flanker series

From Su 27 to Su 35 

All the Flankers had the same body design during their evolution which makes this series easy to learn 

Sukhoi Flankers would use light Aluminium - Lithium alloys making the aircraft body light in weight in respect of it's size

Flankers would have a swept back wing design which had a new concept of FLAPRONS 

(Which simply means Ailerons and Flaps)

The FLAPRONS would work in unison (Together) to function as Flaps and work out of unison to function as Ailerons 

The fuselage of the Sukhoi accounted 40% of lift generated by the aircraft

Later Sukhoi's were integrated with Thrust vectoring technology making them super manuverable fighters

It also had a foreign object protective system(This system protects the air intakes from Foreign objects on Runways preventing Damage to Engine and air intakes) which enabled the Flankers to be operated from unprepared airstrip 

During the evolution of Flankers it undergone some external changes like Canards and Improved engine

And internally its Radar was improved 

India also has it's own version of Flankers named as SUKHOI SU 30 MKI(NATO name Flanker H) introduced in 2002

And entered service in successive years

Flankers were equipped with various Air to air missiles like

1)R 27 ER   air to air missile 

2)R 73 IR SEEKER

3)R 77 ACTIVE RADAR 

It can be also equipped with

UGBs (Unguided bomb)

Rockets

T pods (Targeting pod)

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Author - Aryan Jaiswal