Russia Receiving SU-32/34 Long-Range Strike Fighters

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From Defence Industry Daily -

Russia’s SU-27 Flanker design has become one of its great export successes. It is also a design success, with a basic airframe whose characteristics absorbed lessons from all of America’s “teen series fighters” to produce a 4+ generation aircraft that remains the yardstick by which others still measure themselves. Growth capacity has allowed further refinements and modifications, from the SU-30/35 upgrades to versions that add canard foreplanes (SU-30MKI/M, SU-37), and even carrier-launched capability (SU-33).

Then there’s the SU-32/34 “Fullback,” It was envisaged as the successor to the F-111 analogue SU-24 “Fencer,” which was very highly regarded in Chechnya as a battlefield support aircraft. The SU-34’s design has evolved since its initial drafts in 1986, most visibly so in the present side-by-side cockpit configuration that includes features like an aisle to rest in and even a toilet of sorts. More information is presented in the link below.

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