Sukhoi Company is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District,
Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, and designs both civilian and military aircraft.
It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau.
Company history After the collapse of Soviet Union, each of
the multitude of bureaus and factories producing Sukhoi components were privatized independently.
In 1996, the government re-gathered the major part of them forming Sukhoi Aviation Military
Industrial Combine.
In parallel, other entities, including Ulan Ude factory, Tbilisi factory, Belarus and
Ukraine factories, established alternate transnational Sukhoi Attack Aircraft.
The Sukhoi AIMC comprises the JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau located in Moscow, the Novosibirsk
Aviation Production Association, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association and Irkutsk
Aviation.
Sukhoi is headquartered in Moscow.
Finmeccanica owns 25% + 1 share of Sukhoi's civil division.
The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev
as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.
Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.
Usage Sukhoi's Su-24, Su-25, Su-27, Su-30, Su-34,
Su-35 and shipborne Su-33 aircraft are in service with the Russian Air Force and Navy.
Sukhoi attack and fighter aircraft have been supplied to Armenia, India, China, Poland,
the Czech Republic, Iraq, Slovakia, Hungary, Georgia, East Germany, Syria, Algeria, North
Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Angola, Ethiopia, Peru,
Eritrea, and Indonesia.
Venezuela signed contracts for the purchase of 30 Su-30 fighter jets in July 2006.
More than 2,000 Sukhoi aircraft were supplied to foreign countries on export contracts.
With its Su-26, Su-29 and Su-31 models Sukhoi is also a manufacturer of aerobatic aircraft.
US sanctions 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 was prohibited from doing business with the United States Federal Government.
In November 2006, the US State Department reversed its sanctions against Sukhoi.
Civilian aircraft In September 2007, Russia launched its first
modern commercial regional airliner—the Superjet 100, a 78 to 98 seater, built by
Sukhoi.
It was unveiled at Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
The maiden flight was made on May 19, 2008.
Sukhoi is also working on what is to be Russia's fifth-generation stealth fighter, the Sukhoi
PAK FA.
The maiden flight took place on the 29 January 2010.
Production aircraft Su-2: 1937, light bomber aircraft
Su-7 "Fitter" and "Moujik": ground-attack aircraft
Su-9 "Fishpot" and "Maiden": 1956, interceptor fighter aircraft
Su-11 "Fishpot-C": 1958, interceptor fighter aircraft
Su-15 "Flagon": 1962, interceptor fighter aircraft
Su-17Su-22 "Fitter": ground-attack aircraft Su-24 "Fencer": 1970, jet bomber, attack aircraft
Su-25 "Frogfoot": 1975, ground attack aircraft Su-26: 1984, single seat aerobatic aircraft
Su-27 "Flanker": 1977, air superiority fighter Su-29: 1991, double seat aerobatic aircraft
Su-30 Flanker-C: 1993, multirole strike fighter aircraft
Su-30MK-2 "Flanker-G": multirole fighter aircraft Su-30MKK "Flanker-G": strike-fighter aircraft
Su-30MKI "Flanker-H": air superiority fighter in service with Indian Air Force
Su-30MKM : air superiority fighter in service with Royal Malaysian Air Force
Su-31: 1992, single seat aerobatic aircraft Su-33 "Flanker-D": 1987, carrier-based multirole
fighter aircraft Su-34/Su-32 "Fullback": 2006, "Platypus",
Strike-fighter aircraft Su-27M/Su-35 "Flanker-E": 1995, air superiority
fighter aircraft Su-35BM: 4++ generation multirole fighter
aircraft
Su-80: a twin-turboprop STOL transport aircraft Superjet 100: 2008, regional jet
Irkut MS-21: narrow-body jet airliner
Experimental aircraft
Su-1/I-330: 1940, high-altitude fighter Su-3/I-360: 1942, improved Su-1
Su-5/I-107: jet-propeller fighter Su-6: 1942, ground attack aircraft
Su-8/DDBSh: 1943, ground attack aircraft Su-9: jet fighter
Su-10: jet bomber Su-12: observation plane
Su-15: interceptor fighter Su-17: fighter
Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21: a supersonic business jet design.
Sukhoi KR-860: doubledeck superjumbo jet design.
Su-37: an improved Su-35 Su-28/Su-25UB: trainer and demonstrator
Su-25TM/Su-39: 1984, ground attack aircraft, optimised for anti-tank use
Su-38: light agricultural aircraft S-32/37: multirole fighter
Su-47: experimental aircraft P-1: 1958, interceptor fighter
T-3: 1956, fighter T-4/100: 1972, supersonic bomber, similar
in concept to XB-70 Valkyrie, which was developed by Sukhoi during the 1960s and 1970s.
T-60S: intermediate range bomber.
Sukhoi T-50/PAK FA: fifth generation fighter.
Basic future aircraft of Russian Frontline Aviation.
Maiden flight January 29, 2010.
Sukhoi/HAL FGFA: FGFA is a derivative project from the PAK FA being developed by the Sukhoi
OKB and HAL for the Indian Air Force.
Planned aircraft Sukhoi S-54
Sukhoi Superjet 130 Note: The Sukhoi OKB has reused aircraft designations,
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.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Sukhoi Zond-1
See also
Aircraft industry of Russia List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union
and the CIS
References
External links Company web site
www.sukhoi.ru—Other sources Sukhoi pages—Russian Aviation Museum
Опытно-конструкторское бюро Сухого @biograph.ru
"Russian plane firm challenges West" by Jorn Madslien, BBC News