Sukhoi Su-37
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experimental thrust-vectoring version of the Su-35 fighter aircraft
Key facts
- Type
- Air superiority fighter Technology demonstrator
- National origin
- Russia
- Designer
- Sukhoi Design Bureau
- Built by
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association
- Status
- Out of service and production, prototype, crashed in 2002
- Introduction date
- 25 October 1997
- First flight
- 2 April 1996 ; 30 years ago ( 1996-04-02 )
- Developed into
- Sukhoi Su-30MKI (India), Sukhoi Su-30MKM (Malaysia), Sukhoi Su-30SM (Russia), Sukhoi Su-35 (Russia and China)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- experimental aircraft
- Based on
- Sukhoi Su-35
- Developer
- Sukhoi Design Bureau
- Manufacturer
- Sukhoi
- Image
- Sukhoi Su-37 at Farnborough 1996 airshow.jpg
- Height
- 5.932
- Length
- 21.935
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- Commons category
- Sukhoi Su-37
- powered by
- Saturn AL-31
- NATO reporting name
- Flanker F
- first flight
- 1996-04-02
- total produced
- 3
- wingspan
- 14.698
- native label
- Су-37
- vehicle range
- 3300
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sukhoi Su-37 (Russian: Сухой Су-37; NATO reporting name: Flanker-F; popularly nicknamed "Terminator") was a single-seat twin-engine aircraft designed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau which served as a technology demonstrator. It met the need to enhance pilot control of the Su-27M (later renamed Su-35), a further development of the Su-27. The sole example built was originally the eleventh Su-27M (T10M-11) built by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association before having thrust-vectoring nozzles installed. It also had updated flight- and weapons-control systems. The aircraft made its maiden flight in April 1996. Throughout the flight-test program, the Su-37 demonstrated its supermaneuverability at air shows, performing manoeuvres such as a 360-degree somersault. The aircraft crashed in December 2002 due to structural failure. The Su-37 did not enter production, despite a report in 1998 which claimed that Sukhoi had built a second Su-37 using the twelfth Su-27M airframe, T10M-11 remained the sole prototype. Sukhoi had instead applied the aircraft's systems to the design bureau's other fighter designs.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sukhoi Su-37” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.