For more than three decades, the powerful Sukhoi Su-27 fighter has patrolled the skies over the USSR, its former territories and Russia. Designated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as ...

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO reporting name Flanker). The ministry further claimed to have shot down multiple High Mobility ...

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/11/asd_11_14_2014_flankerspecs.pdf Su-27 Flanker (See pp. 6-9 for full Flanker Program) Designation: Su-27S/SK, Su ...

Key Points and Summary - The Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker" is one of the fastest and most maneuverable fighter jets ever built, capable of reaching Mach 2.35 and performing incredible aerial feats like the ...

More interesting details about the somewhat mysterious story of the Su-27UB Flanker C “61 Blue” are emerging: for the first time, the U.S. Air Force has revealed they bought the Sukhoi in 2011. Last ...

Russia's leading fighter designer, Sukhoi, is using the difficult experience of its moribund Su-27M development effort in revisiting a multi-role version of a single-seat Flanker. Sukhoi is now ...

Early in the 1950s, with global tensions rising, the United States set about reinforcing both its arsenal of weapons and its repertoire of military vehicles. This era saw the birth of, among many ...

The Flanker crashed into the ground killing the pilot and an airshow service member. On Sept. 9, 1990, a Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker, crashed during an airshow held at Salgareda, a small airfield with ...

Two American B-52 bombers and a pair of Russian Su-27 fighter jets were involved in an incident over the Black Sea. The Sukhoi Su-27 “Flanker” jets flew in what U.S. officials described as an “unsafe ...