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Key facts
- Type
- Fighter and fighter-bomber / ground-attack aircraft
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- Sukhoi
- Status
- In limited service with the Korean People's Army Air Force
- Primary users
- Soviet Air Forces (historical) Indian Air Force (historical) North Korean Air Force
- Number built
- 1,847
- Manufactured
- 1957–1972
- First flight
- 7 September 1955
- Developed into
- Sukhoi Su-17
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Operator
- Afghan Air Force
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Developer
- Sukhoi Design Bureau
- Image
- Su7bkl mob.jpg
- Height
- 4.73
- Length
- 17.37
- Has use
- fighter-bomber
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- powered by
- AL-7
- armament
- Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30
- Commons category
- Sukhoi Su-7
- NATO reporting name
- Moujik
- Commons gallery
- Sukhoi Su-7
- first flight
- 1955-09-07
- total produced
- 1874
- service entry
- 1960-00-00
- service retirement
- 1986-00-00
- derivative work
- Sukhoi Su-17
- wingspan
- 8.9
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sukhoi Su-7 (NATO designation name: Fitter-A) is a swept wing, supersonic fighter aircraft developed by the Soviet Union in 1955. Originally, it was designed as a tactical, low-level dogfighter, but was not successful in this role. On the other hand, the soon-introduced Su-7B series became the main Soviet fighter-bomber and ground-attack aircraft of the 1960s. The Su-7 was rugged in its simplicity, but its Lyulka AL-7 engine had such high fuel consumption that it seriously limited the aircraft's payload, as even short-range missions required that at least two hardpoints be used to carry drop tanks rather than ordnance.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sukhoi Su-7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.