Sukhoi

Sukhoi Company

Type	Division
Industry	Aerospace and defense
Founded	as OKB-51, 1939
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Key people	Pavel Sukhoi, founder
Products	Military aircraft Civil airliners
Parent	United Aircraft Corporation
Website	sukhoi.org

Sukhoi Design Bureau

Sukhoi (Russian: Сухо́й) is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer famous for its fighters. Founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su), it is currently known as Sukhoi Corporation. It comprises the JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau located in Moscow, the Novosibirsk Aviation Production Association (NAPO), the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO) and Irkutsk Aviation. Sukhoi is headquartered in Moscow. Finmeccanica owns 25% + 1 share of Sukhoi's civil division.^[1] The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.^[2] Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.^[3]

Sukhoi's Su-24, Su-25, Su-27, Su-30, Su-34, and shipborne Su-33 aircraft are in service with the Russian Air Force and Navy. Sukhoi attack and fighter aircraft have been supplied to Armenia, India, China, Poland, the Czech Republic, Iraq, Slovakia, Hungary, Georgia, East Germany, Syria, Algeria, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Angola, Ethiopia, Peru, Eritrea, and Indonesia. Venezuela signed contracts for the purchase of 30 Su-30 fighter jets in July 2006. More than 2000 Sukhoi aircraft were supplied to foreign countries on export contracts. With its Su-26, Su-29 and Su-31 models Sukhoi is also a manufacturer of aerobatic aircraft.

On August 4, 2006, the US State Department imposed sanctions on Sukhoi for allegedly supplying Iran in violation of the United States Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000. Sukhoi was prohibited from doing business with the United States Federal Government.^[4] In November of 2006, the US State Department reversed its sanctions against Sukhoi.^[5]

In September 2007, Russia launched its first modern commercial regional airliner—the Superjet 100, a 78 to 98 seater, built by Sukhoi. It was unveiled at Komsomolsk-on-Amur.^[6] The maiden flight was made on May 19, 2008.^[7] Sukhoi is also working on what is to be Russia's fifth-generation stealth fighter, the Sukhoi PAK FA. The maiden flight took place on the 29 January 2010.^[8]

Production aircraft

Decommissioned Polish Su-20 'Fitter' (export version of Su-17)

Indian Sukhoi Su-30MKI

Russian Knights's Sukhoi Su-27

Superjet 100 RJ

• Su-2 - light bomber aircraft
• Su-7 "Fitter" and "Moujik" - ground-attack aircraft
• Su-9 "Fishpot" and "Maiden" - interceptor fighter aircraft
• Su-11 "Fishpot-C" - interceptor fighter aircraft
• Su-15 "Flagon" - 1967, interceptor fighter aircraft
• Su-17/Su-20/Su-22 "Fitter" - ground-attack aircraft
• Su-24 "Fencer' - 1974, jet bomber, attack aircraft
• Su-25 'Frogfoot" - ground attack aircraft
• Su-26 - single seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
• Su-27 "Flanker" - 1984 - air superiority fighter
• Su-28/Su-25UB - trainer and demonstrator
• Su-29 - double seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
• Su-30 - 1996, multi-role strike fighter aircraft
  • Su-30MKI "Flanker-H" - multi-role fighter aircraft
  • Su-30MK-2 "Flanker-G" - multi-role fighter aircraft
  • Su-30MKK "Flanker-G" - strike-fighter aircraft
• Su-31 - single seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
• Su-33 "Flanker-D" - 1994, carrier-based multi-role fighter aircraft
• Su-34/Su-32 "Fullback" - 2006, "Platypus", Strike-fighter aircraft
• Su-27M/Su-35 "Flanker-E" - 1995, air superiority fighter aircraft
  • Su-35BM - 4++ generation multirole fighter aircraft
• Su-25TM/Su-39 - ground attack aircraft, optimised for anti-tank use
• Su-80 - a twin-turboprop STOL transport aircraft
• Superjet 100 - regional jet
• Irkut MS-21 - narrow-body jet airliner

Experimental aircraft

Su-47 (S-37)

• Su-1 - high-altitude fighter
• Su-5 - jet-propeller fighter
• Su-6 - ground attack aircraft
• Su-8 - ground attack aircraft
• Su-9 - jet fighter
• Su-10 - jet bomber
• Su-12 - observation plane (1947)
• Su-15 - interceptor fighter
• Su-17 - fighter
• Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 - a supersonic business jet design.
• Sukhoi KR-860 - doubledeck superjumbo jet design^[9].
• Su-37 ("Terminator"), an improved Su-35
• Su-38 light agricultural aircraft
• S-32/37 - multirole fighter (was marketed for a time under the designation Su-47)
• Su-47 - experimental aircraft
• P-1 - interceptor fighter
• T-3 - fighter
• T-4 - supersonic bomber, similar in concept to XB-70 Valkyrie, which was developed by Sukhoi during the 1960s and 1970s.
• T-60S - intermediate range bomber.
• Sukhoi PAK FA/T-50 - fifth generation fighter. Future basic aircraft of Russian Frontline Aviation. Maiden flight January 29th 2010.^[10]
• Sukhoi/HAL FGFA - FGFA is a derivative project from the PAK FA being developed by the Sukhoi OKB and HAL for the Indian Air Force (FGFA is the official designation for the Indian version).

Note: The Sukhoi OKB has reused aircraft designations, for example: the Su-9 from 1946 and the later Su-9 from 1956, the former was not produced in quantity. Sukhoi prototype designations are based on wing layout planform. Straight and swept wings are assigned the "S" prefix, while delta winged designs(including tailed-delta) have "T" for a designation prefix.

Example: S-37 and T-10.

See also

• List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

References

External links

• Company web site: http://www.sukhoi.org/
• Other sources: http://www.sukhoi.ru/
• Russian Aviation Museum Sukhoi Pages : http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/sukhoj.html
• Painting: http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/alvmaia/Sukhoi/
• Good article on OKB history @biograph.ru  Russia
• Russian plane firm challenges West - By Jorn Madslien, BBC News