Category: Aircraft

Sukhoi Su-7 (1944) The Sukhoi Su-7 (1944) was a high-altitude interceptor prototype, derived from the Su-6 ground-attack aircraft. The Su-7 was a mixed-power aircraft, with a Shvetsov ASh-82FN piston engine with two TK-3 turbochargers in the nose and a Glushko RD-1-KhZ rocket engine in the tail. This mixed power approach was intended to solve the problem of intercepting… Read more

Sukhoi Su-11 (1947) The 1946 Sukhoi Su-11 was an advanced iteration of early Soviet jet fighter design, developed by the bureau of Pavel Sukhoi as a follow-on to the Su-9. Conceived during a period of rapid technological transition, the aircraft embodied both incremental refinement and significant redesign as Soviet engineers grappled with the aerodynamic and… Read more

Sukhoi Su-9 (1946) The Sukhoi Su-9 (1946) was an early postwar Soviet jet fighter prototype developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau during the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It should not be confused with the later supersonic interceptor of the same designation introduced in the late 1950s. The 1946 Su-9 belonged to the… Read more