Sukhoi

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Sukhoi Company

Type	Joint stock company
Founded	as OKB-51, 1939
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Key people	Pavel Sukhoi, founder
Industry	Aerospace and defense
Products	Military aircraft Civil airliners
Website	sukhoi.org

Sukhoi (pronounced [suk-oi]) (Сухой) is a major Russian military fighter aircraft manufacturer. Founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su), it is currently known as Sukhoi Corporation. It is comprised of the JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau located in Moscow, the Novosibirsk Aviation Production Association (NAPO), the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association (KnAAPO) and Irkutsk Aviation. Sukhoi is headquartered in Moscow. Finmeccanica is purchasing 25% of Sukhoi's civil division.^[1] The Russian government is planning to merge Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation.^[2]

Currently the Su-24 'Fencer', Su-24 'Fencer-D', Su-25 'Frogfoot', Su-27 'Flanker', Su-30 'Flanker-C', and shipborne Su-33 'Flanker-D' aircraft are in service of the Russian Air Force and Navy. Sukhoi attack or fighter aircraft were supplied to Armenia, India, China, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Syria, Algeria, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Angola, Ethiopia, Peru, Eritrea, and Indonesia. Venezuela will sign contracts for the purchase of 30 Su-30 fighter jets in July 2006. A total of more than 2000 Sukhoi aircraft were supplied to foreign countries on export contracts. With its Su-26, Su-29 and Su-31 models Sukhoi is also one of the leading manufacturers of aerobatic aircraft.

On August 4, 2006 the US State Department imposed sanctions on Sukhoi for allegedly supplying Iran in violation of the United States Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000. Sukhoi is now prohibited from doing business with the United States Federal Government.^[3]. As Sukhoi did not trade with Iran, most observers in Russia believe the sanctions are in retaliation for a contract with Venezuela reached during Hugo Chávez's visit to Russia in July 2006 [1].

1 Production aircraft
2 Experimental aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Production aircraft

Decomissioned Polish Su-20 'Fitter' (export version of Su-17)

Superjet 100

Su-2 - light bomber
Su-7 'Fitter' - attack plane
Su-9 'Fishpot' - interceptor fighter
Su-11 'Fishpot-C' - interceptor fighter
Su-12 - observation plane (1947)
Su-15 'Flagon' - 1967, interceptor fighter
Su-17/Su-20/Su-22 'Fitter' - attack plane
Su-24 'Fencer' - 1974, jet bomber
Su-25 'Frogfoot' - ground attack aircraft
Su-26 - single seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
Su-27 'Flanker A/B' - 1984
Su-28/Su-25UB - Trainer and Demonstrator
Su-29 - double seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
Su-30 'Flanker-C' - 1992
Su-31 - single seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
Su-33 'Flanker-D' - 1994, carrier-based aircraft
Su-34 'Fullback'- 2006, "Platypus"
Su-27M/Su-35 'Flanker-E' - 1995
Su-25TM/Su-39 'Frogfoot' - ground attack aircraft, optimised for anti-tank use
Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 - a supersonic business jet design.
Su-80 - a twin-turboprop STOL transport
Superjet 100

[edit] Experimental aircraft

Su-38L

Su-47 (S-37)

Su-5 - jet-propeller fighter
Su-6 - ground attack aircraft
Su-8 - ground attack aircraft
Su-9 - jet fighter
Su-37 'Flanker-F' ("Terminator"), an improved Su-35
Su-38 light agricultural aircraft
S-32/37 Berkut - multirole fighter (was marketed for a time under the designation Su-47)
T-4 - supersonic bomber, very similar in concept to XB-70 Valkyrie, which was developed by Sukhoi during the 60's and 70's.
Sukhoi PAK FA

Note: The Sukhoi OKB has reused aircraft designations on occasion, for example: the Su-9 from 1946 and the later Su-9 from 1956, the former was not produced in quantity. Sukhoi prototype designations are based on wing layout planform. Straight and swept wings are assigned the "S" prefix, while delta winged designs(including tailed-delta) have "T" for a designation prefix.

Example: S-37 and T-10.