Sukhoi

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: Csukhoi.org/eng/

Picture - Sukhoi Company (JSC) head office/Sukhoi Design Bureau offices

Sukhoi Company (JSC) (Russian: ОАО "Компания "Сухой") is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Moscow, famous for its fighters. It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su).

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. The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.

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. In November of 2006, the US State Department reversed its sanctions against Sukhoi.

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. The maiden flight was made on May 19, 2008. 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.

Production aircraft

Picture - Polish Air Force Su-22UM-3K "Fitter" (export version of the Su-17) at RIAT 2010

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

Picture - Indian Sukhoi Su-30MKI

Picture - Russian Knights's Sukhoi Su-27

Picture - 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 Flanker-C - 1996, multi-role strike fighter aircraft
Su-30MK-2 "Flanker-G" - multi-role fighter aircraft
Su-30MKK "Flanker-G" - strike-fighter aircraft
Su-30MKI "Flanker-H" - multi-role 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

Picture - 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.
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 T-50/PAK FA - fifth generation fighter. Future basic aircraft of Russian Frontline Aviation. Maiden flight January 29th 2010.
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.

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