Sukhoi
2 types · 0 airframes
Pre-1950 Narrative
Narrative coming soon.
Aircraft Types
Sukhoi Su-2
The Sukhoi Su-2 was a Soviet reconnaissance and light bomber of the Second World War, and the first aircraft designed by Pavel Sukhoi. Developed inside the Tupolev bureau from the ANT-51, which took a production place in the 1936 Ivanov contest, it entered production as the BB-1 and was renamed Su-2 in 1940. Under-armed and vulnerable in the ground-attack role, it took heavy losses in 1941-42 and was withdrawn from the front line in 1942 as the Ilyushin Il-2 took over, finishing its service in training, reconnaissance and artillery-spotting work before retirement in 1944. Published production totals disagree, at 893 to 910 aircraft.
Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter
The Sukhoi Su-7, NATO reporting name Fitter-A, is a Soviet swept-wing supersonic jet designed by the Sukhoi bureau. Its S-1 prototype first flew on 7 September 1955. The pure fighter was built in small numbers — 132 aircraft — after production priority went to the MiG-21, but the Su-7B fighter-bomber became the Soviet Union's main ground-attack aircraft of the 1960s, and Wikipedia's accounting puts total production of all versions at 1,847 aircraft. Widely exported, the type fought with Egypt in the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars and with India in the 1971 war with Pakistan. Soviet Su-7s were replaced by Su-17s and MiG-27s by 1986, and examples survive in museums.