By Sukhoi on Monday, June 10th, 2013
Su-35S Gets Ready for the Paris Air Show in France
Training flights of the Su-35S manifest at the present time on the Zhukovsky airfield on the M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute in preparation for participation within the le Bourget-2013 International Air Show.
The Honored test pilot of the Russian Federation, the Hero of Russia Sergey Bogdan works on two sets of aerobatics – for regular and complicated climatic conditions.
Participants and visitors of the biggest exhibition of the sector aircraft industry achievements can be ready to watch this sort of complex and spectacular flight figures as spatial barrels, somersaults, a flat spin, and, for sure, the famous “Pugachev’s Cobra”.
Next week, upon completion of test flights, the aircraft will fly to France to continue preparing for the flight program of the air show.
The newest multirole Su-35S fighter may be presented for the primary time in a foreign air show. Its premiere flight program was held on the MAKS-2009 air show in Russia.
Su-35S is a deeply modernized super-maneuverable multirole fighter of the “4++” generation. The applied technologies of the 5th generation provide for the prevalence of Su-35S aircraft over similar class fighters.
The aircraft has an improved flight characteristics compared with standing analog fighters and more perfect on-board avionics. Aircraft characteristics exceed all European tactical fighters of the 4th and “4+” generation like Rafale and Eurofighter 2000, in addition to upgraded American fighters corresponding to F-15, F-16 and F-18. Su-35S could also successfully counter the 5th generation fighters – F-35 and F-22A.
This aircraft, mainly, is the fastest (2,400 km/h at an altitude of eleven km) fighter, it has a more robust thrust, it also has a nearly two-fold benefit to the fashionable French (Rafale) and Swedish (Gripen) fighters inside the flight range (without suspension tanks – 3600 km). The Gripen NG aircraft, as an instance, has just one engine, so it has a smaller combat survivability and reliability. The yank F/A-18 fighter is not as good as the Russian Su-35S inside the flight altitude.
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