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 ...ner, Canadair CL-215T turbo
prop amphibian. Grob Egrctt surveillance
aircraft. Romania's lAv IAR-99 Soini jet train
er. McDonnell Douglas' tail-rotorless
MD530N helicopter, and the show-stealing
Sukhoi Su-27 air-superiority fighter
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Royal Air Force Boeing E-.3D Sentry airborne
early warning aircraft may peform fly-bys.
The organisers arc hopeful ...
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 ...EFENCE
Flanker on the flank
OSLO
The September 13 incident in
which a Soviet Sukhoi Su-27
Flanker fighter collided with a
Royal Norwegian Air Force
Lockheed P-3B Orion has
given the West its first close-
up views of the new Soviet
look-down/shoot-down inter
ceptor.
The ...
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 ...aturn L
YULKA SATURN'S AL-21 single-shaft
turbojet powers the Mikoyan MiG-23 and
Sukhoi Su-24, and entered production in
the early 1970s. The AL-31F was developed to
power initial versions of the Sukhoi Su-27, and
entered production in 1984.
MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce (MTR)
MILITARY TURBOFANS/JETS
Model
AL-21F-3A
AL-31F
Max thrust dry
kN lb
76 17200
79.4 17900
Max thrust (reheat)
kN...
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 ...undecided whether the naval
Su-27 will carry canards which
Top to bottom Reconnaissance
Mikoyan MiG-25R Foxbat D with
side-looking radar; early prototype
Mil Mi-28 Havoc (left) and opera
tional Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker B
(right); anti-submarine Mil Mx-14
Haze A; and Yakovlev Yak-38 Forger
A naval V/STOL fighter...
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 ...n HR200-120B
Shorts Tucano
Socata TB9 Tampico
Socata TB10 Tobago
Socata TB200 Tobago XL
Socata TB20 and TB21 Trinidad
Socata TBM700 (civil and military)
Socata Omega
Stemme S10
Sukhoi Su-26
Sukhoi Su-27 and -35 (export)
Sukhoi Su-29
Sukhoi Su-30
Sukhoi Su-31
Tupolev Tu-204-120
(R-R RB.211 engines)
Tupolev Tu-204 (cargo)
Valmet L-90TP Redigo
Vought Pampa 2000
Yakolev Yak-42 (A an...
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 ...ype
Lockheed Martin F-16C
Lockheed T-33A
Britten-Norman Islander
Bell UH-1H
Boeing Chinook HC2
Fighter
Dassault Mirage 2000EM
Mil Mi-8
Mikoyan MiG-21
Boeing F/A-18A
SIAI-Marchetti SF260TP
Sukhoi Su-27
HAL Kiran II
LTVTA-7C
Boeing CH-46E
Lockheed Martin Hercules
Bell UH-1H
Mil Mi-8
Mil Mi-24
Sukhoi Su-25
Dassault Mirage 2000-5
Mikoyan MiG-21
Sikorsky HH-60G
Mil Mi-24
Mikoya...
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 ... industry consortium members.
4 Spartan and —: the two missiles of
the US anti-ballistic-missile system.
5 Roughly how many F-16s does the US
Air Force plan to operate—1,000,
2,000, or 3,000?
6 Sukhoi Su-27 engine type
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FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 20 December 1989-2 January 1990 2...
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 ...FlugzeugbauFantrainer 400,61)0*
Robinson R-22 Beta
Saab 340B
Schweizer 300C
Shorts 360-300, Super Sherpa, Tucano*
Slingsby T.67M-200*
Socata Omega*. Tampico Club, Tobago,
Trinidad TC, TBM700*
Sukhoi Su-27*. Su-27UB*
Swearingen SA-32T*
Valmet L-90 Redigo*
Westland WS-70 Black Hawk*
Westland/Agusta EH101*
The following are scheduled to take part
in displays at Farnborough: RAF Red
Arr...
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 ...Hornet, as it nears the end of F/A-18C/D
Hornet production.
Other offerings include the Eurofighter
Typhoon, the DassaultMirage 2 000 and Rafale,
as well as the MAPO MiG-29 and Sukhoi
Su-27 from ...
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 ...hilippines Airlines.
Which North African country became a
Sukhoi Su-27 operator this year?
Name the two top executives who left
Lockheed Martin as the company's
financial troubles mounted?
Which China Airlines type crashed at Hong
Kong International in ...
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 ...ogger at
the Zhukovsky flight-test centre. Four
years earlier, at Menitsky's behest, I had
been the first American invited to fly the
MiG-29 Fulcrum.
Having previously flown both the MiG-
29 and Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker, the latter in
March 1993 at Zhukovsky with test pilot
Anatoly Kvochur, moving to the MiG-23
appears in some ways to be progressing
backwards. Yet the aircraft had been a
cen...
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 ...ASS,
despite the substantial cost, was based
largely on the results of simulated air-to-air
engagements. Without the integrated
DASS, the Eurofighter 2000 losses in simu
lated combat against the Sukhoi Su-27
Flanker increased so significantly that the
system was seen to be essential.
An integrated DAS also adds consider
ably to the cost of the UK's attack-heli
copter programme. With the ...
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 ...pilots
changing from one aircraft type to another,
with type simulators for familiarisation and
training. Familiarisation with a new type
begins in a cockpit mock-up of a an aircraft
such as the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker (picture E).
The trainee then moves on to computer simu
lators, followed by two-seat combat-trainer
aircraft and, finally, a pilot is qualified to fly a
solo mission in a part...
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 ... at BVR air-to-
air combat and hold their own in close air
combat. We've skipped a generation going
from the F-15 and F-16 to the F-22; our
adversaries did not and have the advantage
of Flankers [Sukhoi Su-27/30] and other
aircraft. I think it would be excessively
optimistic to say we have parity."
The threat is not just in the air but in
the continued evolution of surface-to-air
missile ...
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 ...dmitting that in the past this
rivalry led to irregularities.
Restructuring was essential if the indus
try was to rationalise internal competition.
Although Rosoboronexport hopes to sell
400-500 Sukhoi Su-27-family aircraft over
the next 10 years, in addition to existing
Chinese and Indian orders worth $10 bil
lion, they will be insufficient to fill capac
ity at the three largely independ...
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 ...le East
Su-25 Iraq
North Africa & the Middle East total
Sub-Saharan Africa
Su-25/UB
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sukhoi Su-25/39 Frogfoot
Angola
total
total
AF
AF
AF
AF
AF
AF
N
AF
AF
AF
AF
Sukhoi Su-27/30/33 Flanker/Shenyang J-11
Australasia, North & East Asia
J-11 Chin
SU-30MKK China
AF
AF
288
23
23
689
40
33
73
5
42
47
351
230
675
35
30
12
20
97
845
40
40
46 ...
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 ...i's massive Su-27 interceptor dominates the Paris skies
Sukhoi's Flanker
demonstrates power
The "snake-bite", a snap-shot manoeuvre apparently famil
iar to Soviet fighter pilots, high
lights the Sukhoi Su-27's aerial
display, and is designed to
emphasise the Soviet inter
ceptor's power and agility.
There are two Flankers at
Paris, a single-seat Su-27 and a
two-seat Su-27UB. Both are
po...
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 ...cer.
Overall, the Su-27's aero
dynamics appear to be opti
mised for supersonic cruise
capability combined with
extreme manoeuvrability by
previous Soviet standards.
The United States Dep-
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Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker
::::: Span in.
Length sml
(ft)
Wing area [m-1
Wing area Ifr)
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 ... trials late in 1989, appear to
have been retained. The carrier
also carries 192 SA-N-9 15km-
range anti-aircraft/anti-missile
missiles.
Tbilisi is pictured with a Mi-
koyan MiG-29 Fulcrum and a
Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker parked
forward, the former in front of a
raised jetblast deflector. A
second Su-27 is apparently about
to land. •
16 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 19-25 September 199...
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 ...EADLINES
The MDC F-15 will fight it out with the Dassault Mirage 2000, Lockheed Martin F-16 and Sukhoi Su-27
Greece puts F-15 and Su-27 on
shortlist in fighter competition
NEWS IN BRIEF I
• GERMANY PICKS EC135
German defence procure
ment agency BWB has placed
an order with Eurocopter for ...
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