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SU-35: specifications. Fighter of the Russian Air Force
The SU-35 is known as a multipurpose fighter, which has the ability to show its best qualities in confronting an air enemy. It can also deal powerful, high-precision impacts from long distances to targets on land, sea, and in the air.
The term "Generation 4 ++" shows that the TTX SU-35 almost corresponds to the level of the fifth generation. To attribute the aircraft to the fifth generation did not give the absence of stealth characteristics and phased active grating.
The SU-35 aircraft appeared as a result of a deep modernization of the SU-27 - a car with excellent flight parameters. Multilateral modernization led to the creation of a new fighter. Novations touched on the design, equipment, capabilities and goals.
The beginning of the way
Prototype SU-35 "Russia" Made its first take-off in the spring of 1985. The new aircraft retained an external resemblance to the SU-27, but significantly changed the aerodynamic characteristics.
Describe the weapons of the aircraft can only be in superlatives. This is a record number for fighter aircraft - 14. The total combat load of the car is 8 tons.
History
2006 was the year of release of the installation batch of cars. The premier prototype was released in 2007. A year later, the first flights began. By March 2009, the novelty produced a hundred flights.
At the MAKS-2009 aviation forum, the Air Force signed a contract with the manufacturer for 48 cars until 2015. According to the results of the contract, the country's military department plans to conclude a similar contract until 2020.
In 2010, information appeared on the results of preliminary tests that proved the machine's compliance with the required parameters for super maneuverability and the availability of airborne equipment.
The first six SU-35S in the serial production of the Ministry of Defense received in 2012. Two months later, his state trials began.
Further receipts of the novelty look like this:
- 2013 - 12 items;
- 2014 year - 12 pcs.
Features
As already mentioned, the SU-35 fighter is the modernized Su-27. The braking of the aircraft during landing is done by deflecting the direction of the rudders.
The SU-35S aircraft has engines AL-41F1S with controlled thrust vector. The engine was developed by the research and production company Saturn. The engines correspond to the conditions that must be met for the most modern fighters. Although the aircraft has an old control system, it allows it to move without forcing at a speed above the speed of sound.
The life of the aircraft is thirty years or 6000 flying hours.
Glider
SU-35, the technical characteristics of the glider, which is similar in design to its predecessor SU-27, is rightly proud of its flight characteristics.
Its difference from its predecessor is that its edge has been processed by special materials. In addition, the cab light has a special conductive spraying. At the same time, there is no braking and horizontal plumage.
Engines
Like other units, the power unit underwent changes in SU-35. Technical characteristics of engines meet the requirements for the fifth generation of aircraft.
In addition to the main jet engines of the AL-41F1S aircraft, which it has two, the SU-35 is equipped with an additional gas turbine engine with a capacity of 105 kilowatts, TA14-130-35. It is designed for use in an additional power plant, which allows you to supply AC power to 200V and 115V consumers up to 30 kVA and to condition the cabin and compartments.
Technical specifications
- The crew is 1 person.
- The area of the wings is 62 m².
- The sweep angle of the wings is 42 °.
- Length, m - 21.90.
- Height, m - 5.90.
- The wingspan is 14.75 m.
- An empty plane has a mass of 19 tons, a working take-off mass of 25 tons, a maximum mass of 34 tons, and a fuel load of 11 tons.
- Engines: turbojet with a mass of 1520 kg, having an afterburner and a controlled vector of thrust, AL-41F1S. Thrust: 2 × 8800 kgf; On afterburner: 2 × 14,500 kgf.
Flight Parameters
Designers have provided super maneuverability SU-35. The technical characteristics of the aircraft and its flight parameters are given below:
- Max speed at low altitudes is 1400 km / h.
- The speed at high altitudes is 2500 km / h.
- Range of flight: at an altitude of 3.6 km - 4500 km, at an altitude of 200 m - 1580 km.
- The length of the run: with a parachute for braking, a normal take-off mass, the use of brakes - 650 m, take-off at full afterburner - 450 m.
- The ceiling is 20 kilometers.
- Rate of climb is 280 m / s.
- Load on the wing: maximum takeoff weight - 611 kg / m², normal - 410 kg / m².
As we can see, the speed of the SU-35 is very decent.
Armament
- The combat load is 8 tons.
- 12 places of arms suspension.
The aircraft has several types of weapons:
- Rifle-cannon;
- Air-to-air missiles controlled;
- Unguided rockets and bombs;
- Air-to-surface missiles are controlled.
From the rifle and cannon armament on the plane installed built-in automatic single-barreled gun GSh-301 caliber 30 mm increased rate of fire. The gun is placed on the right half of the wing and has an ammunition of 150 cartridges.
The SU-35 rocket-and-bomb weaponry is located on launchers, catapults and beam holders.
Places for arms suspension:
- Console wings - 6 pcs .;
- Tip of the wings - 2 pcs .;
- Engines - 2 pcs .;
- Centroplane - 2 pcs.
Of the air-to-air weapons, the aircraft can carry 8 medium-range R-27 missiles with radar or thermal homing heads. You can still use up to 10 homing RVV-AE missiles with radar heads or up to 6 short-range R-73 missiles with thermal homing heads.
The "air-to-surface" armament may include six homing missiles X-29T, X-29L and S-25LD with laser heads. In addition to missiles, the aircraft can be armed with corrected bombs. To combat enemy ships, anti-ship missiles X-31A are used.
Unguided armament "air-surface" can reach 8 tons. The number of bombs can reach 16 pcs.
Avionics
SU-35, the technical characteristics of the radar which provide him with dominance in the air, is able to detect targets even at long range.
Radar parameters:
- Diameter of the phase array, cm - 0,9.
- Operates in the frequency range - 8-12 GHz.
- The viewing angle is 240 °.
- The number of transceivers is 1772.
- Working power - 5000 Watts.
- The maximum power is 20000 watts.
- Goals are detected for counter-rates at scattering areas of 3 m² at a distance of 350-400 km, with an effective scattering area of 0.01 m2 - a distance of 90 km.
- At the same time, 8 targets are being fired.
- At the same time, target designation and detection of 30 targets in the air or 4 on the ground are conducted.
The H035 Irbis radar is capable of detecting targets with a scattering area of 3 m² at a distance of up to 400 km. The radar is enhanced by an opto-electronic integrated system and an optical-location station.
In addition to the radio-electronic countermeasures already available on the Su-35, group radio electronic protection stations can be used.
In the pilot's cabin there is a holographic indicator, which is located on the front glass, and two displays operating in multi-screen mode.
In addition, there is a complex L-150-35, warning of radiation.
The optical location station allows you to accompany 4 air targets at a distance of up to 80 kilometers. Infrared sensors carry out a warning of a missile attack.
For the purposes of EW, the fighter is equipped with containers.
Combat Equipment
The SU-35 is armed with guided air-to-air missiles. They can be of different types in range and method of guidance. Ground and surface targets pilot can hit rockets with television guidance, bombs of a controlled and uncontrolled type.
Particularly impressive is the anti-aircraft radar. It makes it possible to find air circuits at a distance of 400 km. The range of ground detection is 200 kilometers.
Comparison with F-35
The manufacturer defines the SU-35 as a 4 ++ machine, that is, possessing a number of properties inherent in the fifth generation. The ability to shoot down stealth planes gives the fighter his super maneuverability. The SU-35 specifications Somewhat different .
The propulsion system of the aircraft makes it possible to make complicated maneuvers. Piloting SU-35 gives the opportunity to perform both "Pugachev's Cobra" and "Frolov's Chakra".
European experts with some degree of skepticism refer to the super maneuverability, believing that in real combat, low visibility is much more important than increased maneuverability. Stealth - a characteristic that the fighter has initially. Many experts believe that compliance with the requirements of low visibility was the main requirement of customers F-35. Since he has little visibility, he does not need high maneuverability.
However, on the other hand, despite the great importance of stealth technology for a fighter, it is not an invisibility cloak. Knowledge of air combat is constantly being updated. Military and post-war aircraft of the first generations used high, high speed, maneuverability and combat power as priority tasks. In the following generations, the requirements have changed somewhat: the main was the speed of the SU-35, then - maneuverability.
Experts highly appreciated the maneuvers carried out by the SU-35 fighter at the air show in Paris. Undoubted victory in the air, of course, they do not mean, but the trajectory of flight, which can not be predicted, can cause failures in the programs of targeting enemy missiles. In this case, the Su-35 itself is capable of launching short-range missiles with the maximum probability of hitting an enemy aircraft.
F-35 is to the maximum extent dependent on its low visibility and tries to avoid collisions in close air combat ("stabbing" is contraindicated to it). Close combat provides significant advantages to SU-35. The Russian machine has a large arsenal of weapons, a high range of flight. But the main horse of the SU-35 is its super maneuverability, about which legends form. This characteristic has become a business card of these aircraft. The cost of SU-35 for the Russian Armed Forces is approximately $ 40 million.
Buyers SU-35
Soon, an order from the Ministry of Defense for these fighters is possible. In addition, four foreign customers are interested in planes.
Aircraft can be delivered to China, Vietnam, Venezuela and Indonesia. 24 units can be delivered to China. Another 60 planes are waiting for the rest of the country.
By 2020, the number of cars produced can be brought to 96 units. At present, the contract for 48 fighters for the Russian Air Force ends. The press reported that it is planned to order an additional batch of cars.
conclusions
Thus, we can conclude that the SU-35 is an unusually efficient machine. Perhaps the best created in Russia. At the same time, it is very difficult to assess the prospects of the SU-35 in the fight against the Raptor without their collision in real combat, as it is not known what will outweigh the stealth and electronic filling or super maneuverability.
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