Su-35S Fighter Sukhoi Su-35S fighter jet will make its first foreign debut during the 50th International Paris Air Show-Le Bourget ...
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Sukhoi Su-35S fighter jet will make its first foreign debut during the 50th International Paris Air Show-Le Bourget between 17 and 23 June.
The demonstration aircraft is currently conducting training flights at the Zhukovsky airfield at the M.M.Gromov Flight Research Institute.
Sukhoi's chief test pilot Sergey Bogdan will conduct the aerial sorties during the air show with complex maneuvers like spatial barrels, somersaults, flat spin, and, of course, the famous "Pugachev's Cobra".
Next week, upon completion of test flights, the aircraft will fly to France to continue getting ready for the flight program of the air show.
Su-35 made its debut at the MAKS-2009 air show in Russia.
In strategic terms the Su-35S is a game changer, as it robustly outclasses all competing Western fighter aircraft other than the US F-22A Raptor stealth fighter.The Su-35S is the first non-US fighter with substantial sustained supersonic cruise capability, which provides this aircraft with an enormous energy advantage against conventional opponents in most regimes of air combat.
The Su-35 features a new avionics suite based on digital information control system integrating onboard systems, a new radar with a phased antenna array having a long aerial target detection range with an increased number of simultaneously tracked and engaged targets (30 aerial targets tracked and 8 engaged plus the tracking of 4 and engagement of 2 ground targets), and new enhanced vectored thrust engines. The Su-35 has a diverse suite of long-, medium- and short-range weapons. It can carry guided aerial munitions for anti-radar and anti-ship actions as well as general purpose munitions, and guided and unguided aerial bombs.
The radar signature of the fighter has been reduced by several times as compared to that of the fourth-generation aircraft by coating the cockpit with electro-conducting compounds, applying radio absorption coats and reducing the number of protruding sensors.
The service life of the aircraft is 6,000 hours flight hours; the life cycle is 30 years of operation. The assigned service life of vectored thrust engines is 4,000 hours.
