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Sukhoi Su-34
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strike fighter version of the Su-27 fighter aircraft
The Sukhoi Su-34 is a Russian combat aircraft designed as a strike fighter based on the earlier Su-27 fighter jet. It's built to carry weapons and conduct bombing missions while maintaining some of the dogfighting capabilities of its parent design.
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Key facts
- Type
- Fighter-bomber / strike fighter
- National origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Manufacturer
- Sukhoi , Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO)
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Russian Aerospace Forces Algerian Air Force
- Number built
- >163 (7 test and 156 serial aircraft in early 2024)
- Manufactured
- 2006–present
- Introduction date
- 20 March 2014
- First flight
- 13 April 1990 ; 36 years ago ( 1990-04-13 )
- Developed from
- Sukhoi Su-27
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- fighter-bomber
- Operator
- Russian Aerospace Forces
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Based on
- Sukhoi Su-27
- Developer
- Sukhoi Design Bureau
- Manufacturer
- Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association
- Designed by
- Rollan Martirosov
- Official website
- www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/military/su32
- Image
- Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-34 Beltyukov-1.jpg
- Height
- 6.09
- Length
- 23.3
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- powered by
- Saturn AL-31
- NATO reporting name
- Fullback
- Commons category
- Sukhoi Su-34
- Commons gallery
- Sukhoi Su-34
- first flight
- 1990-04-13
- service entry
- 2014-03-21
- total produced
- 143
- wingspan
- 14.7
- wing area
- 62.0
- name in native language
- Сухой Су-34
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sukhoi Su-34 (Russian: Сухой Су-34; NATO reporting name: Fullback) is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Soviet Air Forces, and it entered service in 2014 with the Russian Air Force.
Based on the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker air superiority fighter, the Su-34 has a wider, armoured cockpit with side-by-side seating for its two pilots. The Su-34 was designed primarily for tactical deployment against ground and naval targets (tactical bombing/attack/interdiction roles, including against small and mobile targets) on solo and group missions in daytime and at night, under favourable and adverse weather conditions and in a hostile environment with counter-fire and electronic warfare (EW) counter-measures deployed, as well as for aerial reconnaissance. The Su-34 is planned to eventually replace the Su-24 tactical bomber and the Tu-22M long-range bomber.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sukhoi Su-34” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.