Sukhoi Su-37

The Sukhoi Su-37 (Russian: Сухой Су-37; NATO reporting name: Flanker-F; popularly nicknamed "Terminator") was a single-seat twin-engine aircraft designed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau which served as a technology demonstrator. It met the need to enhance pilot control of the Su-27M (later renamed Su-35), a further development of the Su-27. The sole example built was originally the eleventh Su-27M (T10M-11) built by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association before having thrust-vectoring nozzles installed. It also had updated flight- and weapons-control systems. The aircraft made its maiden flight in April 1996. Throughout the flight-test program, the Su-37 demonstrated its supermaneuverability at air shows, performing manoeuvres such as a 360-degree somersault. The aircraft crashed in December 2002 due to structural failure. The Su-37 did not enter production, despite a report in 1998 which claimed that Sukhoi had built a second Su-37 using the twelfth Su-27M airframe, T10M-11 remained the sole prototype. Sukhoi had instead applied the aircraft's systems to the design bureau's other fighter designs.
Summary from Wikipedia, photo via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA.
- Category
- Fighters
- First flight
- 1996-04-02
- Length
- 21.935 m
- Wingspan
- 14.698 m
Specifications
- Max speed
- 1,350 kt
- Range
- 1,800 nm
- Service ceiling
- 61,700 ft
- Rate of climb
- 45,000 ft/min
- Max takeoff weight
- 74,957 lb
- Empty weight
- 40,786 lb
- Powerplant
- 2 × Saturn AL-37FU afterburning turbofan engines
- Engines
- 2
- Seats
- 1
- Length
- 72 ft
- Wingspan
- 48.3 ft
- Height
- 19.5 ft
- Number built
- 1
Specifications are approximate and may vary by variant. Compiled from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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