Squadron Signal - Aircraft In Action 1090 Sukhoi Fitters
The Su-7 Filler is a dedicated ground aiiack fighter designed and built by the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKI)), one of the primary OKBs in the Soviet Union. Over the past thirty-years, the Fitter series has emerged as one of the most successful aircraft built in the Soviet Union since the end of the Second World War. Currently, more then half of all tactical ground-attack fighter regiments in Ihc Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact arc equipped with one or more Sukhoi Fitter variants.
This impressive aircraft flew for the first time during the mid-1950s, and is considered to be an Eastern contemporary of the North American F-100 Super Sabre. While the Super Sabre has long since been retired, the Sukhoi Su-17 and Su-22, both progressive developments of the basic Su-7 (Fitter A), are the backbone of tactical airpower in the Fastern nations. The Fitter series is a fine example of the Russian method of progressively upgrading a proven aircraft over a long period of time. The Su-22 Fitter J also has the doubtful privilege of being on the losing side in the first air combat involving variable-geometry wing lighters when two Grumman F-14A Tomcats shot down two Libyan flown Fitter Js over the Gulf of Sidra on 19 August 1981.
Sukhoi Fitter in Action (Aircraft 90)
Автор: Hans-Heiri Staffer, Perry Manley
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc.
Год издания:1989
Язык: английский
Страниц: 52 Pages
ISBN: 0897472144
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10.5 MB
