Complete Information on SU34 (FLANKER-C2) Offered to India Part -1

Multifunctional strike aircraft / bomber. Is based on the Su-27 design bureau im.P.O.Suhogo, General Designer Mikhail Simonov, chief designer - R.G.Martirosov. Development impact modified T-10B launched by the Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers June 19, 1986 Development originates from the project T-10SH (1980), and, until 1986, the design was carried out on the basis of T-10UB. 

Since 1986, the project strike aircraft with fully original layout adopted by the T-10B. Preliminary design of the aircraft is protected in May 1988 - the project was proposed two options for the cabin layout - a traditional tandem arrangement of pilots and series. To implement the second option was chosen layout. Engineering design of the aircraft was carried out in 1987-1988 gg The first prototype of the T-10B-1 is assembled an experienced production Sukhoi Design Bureau (MSW them Sukhoi, Moscow) in 1989-1990 by combining the new armored cab made ​​a pilot production OKB im.P.O.Suhogo (according to other sources - NAPO Chkalov, Novosibirsk), with an upgraded airframe Su-27UB. Pevy flight prototype Su-27IB (T-10B-1 board №42 "blue") held on April 13, 1990 (pilot - AAIvanov) LII airfield in Zhukovsky.

 In 1990-1991 GG prototypes passed flight tests, the aircraft worked out in the later part of the equipment and structures. Publicly prototype of the T-10B-1 was first shown at an exhibition of military equipment to the leaders of the CIS countries in Machulishchy (Belarus) February 13, 1992.

Su-34 board №10 red, 2013 (photo - Vadim, http://russianplanes.net/id110542 ).

Su-27IB / T-10B-1, 1990 (photo - Pacman@cix.co.uk, http://militaryphotos.net ). Su-34 board №23 red, 2013 (photo - Vadim,http://russianplanes.net/id109983 ). Su-34 bort№ 10 red at the airfield Pushkin, beginning in August 2012 (photo - Vladislav Efremenko,http://russianplanes.net/id82844 ). frontline bombers Su 34, shot no later than 2002 version there is anecdotal evidence that the picture plane T-10B-1 (photo - S.A.Skrynnikov, taken from private collections on http://fotki.yandex.ru )

The aircraft was planned to adopt to replace the Su-24 / Su-24M. Serial production to be deployed at the Novosibirsk aircraft plant im.V.Chkalova (plant №153). The first flight of the prototype of pre-assembled at the NAPO in Novosibirsk, T-10B-2 - December 18, 1993 (pilots and I.V.Votintsev E.G.Revunov). The first experimental series aircraft Su-34 (T-10B-5) flew 28 December 1994 Until 1998, it was planned to release 12 aircraft of the first series, in the end in 1994-2003 released a series of four aircraft installation and pre-production prototype of the T-10B-4 with a complete set of avionics. In June 1995, at the International Air Show in Le Bourget, the aircraft was presented under the name "Su-32FN" (Su-32FN - Fighter Navy). 

In June 2003, the mass media have reported completion of the first stage of state tests of the Su-34. In fact, the first stage of state tests was completed in 2006, the Russian Air Force official handover of the first two production aircraft Su-34 - collars №№01 and 02 (including one - flight) was held December 15, 2006 at the airport NAPO ( Novosibirsk). In 2007, the aircraft received the Air Force in trial operation and under contract №319 / 3/1-ELO from 10.11.2008 for the supply of 32 aircraft in the Air Force initiated the delivery of the first major military series (32 aircraft to be supplied to the end of 2014 with bringing to 48 the end of 2015). 

At the beginning of February 2011 announced the successful completion of the second phase of state testing and documentation for the formal adoption of the aircraft by the Air Force of Russia. September 19, 2011 Air Force Commander A. Zelin signed certificate of completion of joint state tests of the Su-34 aircraft to the adoption of the recommendation by the Air Force (other unconfirmed reports the act was signed in mid-April 2011). Government Decision on the adoption of Russian aircraft into service expected in 2012. March 20, 2014 Su-34 officially adopted for the Russian Air Force. The first contract for the supply of 32 series machines Air Force made ​​in 2013. In the autumn of 2013 started the implementation of the second contract for the delivery of another 92 aircraft. Overall, the Air Force plans to be armed with the Su-34, 150-200.

Design - the plane normal aerodynamic scheme with two keels, differential tselnopovorotnym tail and canards. At the core of the Su-27 airframe with canards (PGO), increased midsection bow, reshape it, rearrange the cabin at the location near the pilots, in a niche nose landing gear is equipped with the entrance to the cabin, using a new canopy, lengthened root nodules wing , modified kinematics and sash nose landing gear, redesigned air intakes - they have become unregulated, removed ventral keels, increasing the number of external stations.

Su-34 (№2) with the final assembly shop NAPO im.V.Chkalova, Novosibirsk, June 2012 (photo - Vyacheslav Stepanov, http://gelio-nsk.livejournal.com ). The assembly of the fuselage of the Su-34 on the stocks NAPO im.V.Chkalova, Novosibirsk ( http://talks.guns.ru )Assembling the fuselage of the Su-34 on the stock NAPO im.V.Chkalova, Novosibirsk, 08.02.2012 (photo by Sergey Mamontov ,http://ria.ru ). The assembly of the fuselage of the Su-34 on the stock NAPO im.V.Chkalova, Novosibirsk, 19.10.2011 (photo - Andrew Grebnev, http://nsk.kp.ru ).

Cabin crew performed using titanium armor (thickness up to 17 mm), as well armored supply tank of the aircraft. Log into the cabin through the hatch in the niche nose landing gear. On the prototype of the T-10B-1 and T-10B-2 armored cabin is made ​​pilot production OKB im.P.O.Suhogo (according to other sources - NAPO Chkalov, Novosibirsk). After delivery to the airbase Baltimore Su-34 production in 2011 on Internet forums discussing the possibility of the use of aircraft cockpit canopy elements with developments on research "Ashig" for the PAK-FA / T-50 .

Cab Su-34 on the stock NAPO Chkalov, Novosibirsk ( http://talks.guns.ru ). The assembly of the fuselage of the Su-34 on the stock NAPO im.V.Chkalova, Novosibirsk, 19.10.2011 (photo - Andrew Grebnev, http://nsk.kp.ru ). The canopy of the Su-34 board №10 red production in 2011, the air base №7000 Baltimore, December 22, 2011 (author photo - Dmitry Chushkin, http: // dmitrydreamer .livejournal.com ).

Nose landing gear starting with the prototype T-10B-1 has two wheels. Starting with T-10B-2 on the main landing gear on two wheels.

Bow of the Su-34 collars №№01 and 10 red, airbase №7000 Baltimore, January 2012 ( http://ruforces-com.livejournal.com ). The front and main landing gear of the Su-34 board №10 red release 2011 in the center of Lipetsk, 29.03.2012, the (photo - Air Force Major,http://russianplanes.net ). The brake parachute on board the Su-34 №22 red airbase Baltimore, January-March 2013 ( photo - Vadim,http://russianplanes.net/id103447 ).

Engines :
1) 2 x AL-31F turbofan engines with a thrust of 7600 kg, afterburner - 12,500 kg (most likely - Improvements version of the engine with a thrust of 12,800 kg in afterburner)
bypass ratio - 0.571
Fuel consumption:
- at cruising - 0, 67 kg / kg per hour
- for maximal - 0.75 kg / kg per hour
- afterburner - 1.92 kg / kg per hour

Length - 4950 mm
diameter - 1180 mm
Engine weight - 1520 kg 2) production aircraft can be set AL-31FM or AL-35F (AL-35FM) with traction on different data from 12,500 kg to 14,000 kg on the afterburner (information from 1997 .). 3) 2 x AL-41F turbofan engines with a thrust of 20,000 kg with thrust vector control system was planned to put on a production aircraft since 2005 (according to information from 2000). 4) 2 x turbofan thrust AL-31FM1 least 14000 kg and the auxiliary gas turbine plant TA14-130-35 to start engines without ground support equipment (Su-34 mod.2011 - see below). According to unconfirmed information ( ist. - http://dmitrydreamer.livejournal.com ) aircraft manufactured in 2011 worth auxiliary power unit, but the AL-31FM-1 is not yet established.

The assembly of the fuselage of the Su-34 on the stock NAPO im.V.Chkalova, Novosibirsk, 19.10.2011 (photo - Andrew Grebnev,http://nsk.kp.ru ). The auxiliary power unit in the tail boom of the Su-34 production 2011, airbase №7000 Baltimore, December 22, 2011 (author photo - Dmitry Chushkin, http://dmitrydreamer.livejournal.com ).

5) 2 x AL-31FM2 turbofan thrust of 14,500 kg will be installed on production aircraft from 2012 provided that, in 2012 the engine will be tested. Just plan to re-engine aircraft previously released. The engine is designed NTC them. Cradles and SPC Gas Turbine "Salute", the production is planned for the SPC Gas Turbine "Salute" ( ist. - AL-31F engines M2 ... ). 
Appointed engine life - 3000 hours

TTX aircraft :
Crew - 2 persons. Length - 23.34 m length without PVD - 22.1 m Wingspan - 14.7 m (14.05 and 15.16 m dr.dannym) Swipe stabilizer - 9.8 m span PGO - 6.4 m Height - 6.36 m (6.5 and 6.84 m dr.dannym) Wing area - 62 sq Wing sweep on the leading edge - 42 deg. Track chassis - 4.4 m Base Chassis - 6.63 m Weight Maximum - 44360/45100 kg Weight normal - 38,240 kg / 42,000 kg (Su-32FN) Empty weight - 22500 kg Fuel weight - 12100 kg - 19300 kg (with 3 x 3000 liter drop tanks) Payload weight: - 8000 kg (maximum) - 4000 kg (normal) Weight reservations - 1480 kg

 

Maximum speed:
- 1900 km / h (at a height 1.8m)
- 1400 km / h (at ground level)
- 1,100 km / h (at the ground with pendants)
landing speed - 250 km / h

Ceiling - 15000/19800 m
Range:
- 7000 km (with refueling)
- 4000-4500 km (Ferry without refueling)
- 2485 km (Hi-Lo-Hi)
- 1400 km (Lo-Lo-Lo)
combat radius:
- 600 km (Lo-Lo-Lo without PTB)
- 1130 km (Lo-Lo-Lo with PTB)
Takeoff - 850-1260 m
Mileage - 950-1100 m Maximum operating overload - 7 G Armament - located on 3 hardpoints under fuselage and 8 nodes under the wing;Artillery - Integrated 30 mm cannon GSH-301 with 180 rounds ammunition;

Gun GSH-301 Su-34 board with red №08 Airshow MAKS-2011, August 2011 (photo - Igor Bells, http://russianplanes.net ). The gun GSH-301 Su-34 production in 2011, airbase №7000 Baltimore, December 22, 2011 (author photo - Dmitry Chushkin,http://dmitrydreamer.livejournal.com ).

Missiles "air-to-air" and "air-ground" and other payload aircraft can carry different variants on 12 hardpoints (4 and 8 under the fuselage under the wing):
- up to 8 missiles R-27 on a 4-ventral and 4 indoor underwing hardpoints;
- up to 8 missiles R-77 medium-range missiles on underwing hardpoints;
- 6 missiles R-73 short-range missiles on external underwing hardpoints;

Missiles "air-to-air" under the Su-34 board №05 Red Air Force Base Baltimore / Voronezh, 18.08.2012 (photo - Sergei Tchaikovsky,http://russianplanes.net/id84363 ).

Other suspension arms:
- Various uncontrollable shock weapons - NUR caliber 57, 85, 130, 240 and 370 mm (in units and in solitary confinement - 6 pcs. on the inner underwing nodes with tandem placement on one of the nodes);
- different bomb types (including in the multi-locking racks):
     34 x 100 kg bombs,
     22 x 250 kg bombs
     12-16 x 500 kg bombs
     to 7 pc. KMGU
- guided missile type X-25 , X-29, X-31P, 31A-X, X-35, X-58, X-59, X-59M, S-25L , "alpha," " YAKHONT "" Mosquito "and others. with all types of guidance systems; containers with guns, bombs adjustable type CC-500 and CC-1500; number of missiles Kh-59M and bombs KAB-1500 - up to 3 pcs., the rest - up to 6 pcs .;
- can be used 3 x 3000 liter drop tanks;
- for targeting against naval targets are used for various types of beacons (up to 72 units in container);

Su-32FN (Su-34 / T-10B-2) with RCC X-31 and the "Alpha" (A. Mikheev, A. Fomin, the Su-34. M., 1995)

Su-34 / T-10B-4 (top, start NUR C-25) and Su-34 / T-10B-7 (below) mounting a series of tests on weapons systems, the beginning of the 2000s ( http: // www. militaryphotos.net ).

Equipment - complex radar with phased SH141 (Su-32FN - "Sea snakes", the eponymous OCD) developed SKB "Earth" NGOs "Leninist" (Leningrad, General Designer - G.N.Gromov). As of 2008 the NGO "Leninist" is working to modernize the radar SH141. Test of a prototype radar OCD "Sea Dragon" from 2000 were (and perhaps being) on the Tu-134SL / CR-134SH / L-17-10V (converted Tu-134SH, board №65098, NPP "Mir" HC "Leninist").

Airborne laboratory L-17-10V radar OCD "Sea Dragon" for testing complex equipment of the Su-34, the airfield Pushkin, 12.05.2004 (photo - Lindr, http://russianplanes.net ). Airborne laboratory A- 17-10V radar OCD "Sea Dragon" for testing complex equipment of the Su-34, the airfield Pushkin, 02.06.2012 (photo - Vladislav Efremenko, http://russianplanes.net/id81108 ).

The complex:
- multifunction phased array radar with forward-looking V004 allows you to detect targets with low ESR on the background of the Earth's surface (preferably similar to the American radar AN / APS-137) at a distance of 150-200 km
- IR-finder combined with a laser rangefinder and designator-TV off-camera
- installed in the cockpit multifunction color displays (the pilot-operator of two rectangular multifunction display)
- helmet-mounted sights are used to develop KB factory "Arsenal" and SPC "Star" (chief designer A.A.Boryusyuk) - a family of "gap-3 "/" slit-3UM "/" slit-3UM-1 "or a better analogue.
- computer-based digital computer "Argon"

Phased array radar complex SH141 Su-34 ( http://www.militaryphotos.net ). phased array radar with V004 on the Su-34 in the shop NAPO, Novosibirsk, 2012 ( http://zavtra.ru ). Cab T-10B-6 / Su-34 board №46, August 2012 (photo - Serygey Tchaikovsky,http://russianplanes.net/id90181 ). Cab T-10B-8 / Su-34 with modifications to the level of production equipment aircraft, Ramenskoye, 17.08.2011 (Photo - Eugene Sologubov, http://russianplanes.net/id64288 ).

Control of the aircraft performs digital-wire control system. The navigation system with satellite channel (positioning accuracy of up to 1 m); The Su-32FN - can be mounted station providing the production and processing of information at a time of 8 radiogudroakusticheskih buoys (the analogue of the American ESMP AN / UYS-2) ; magnetic anomaly detector (analog AN / ASQ-81 or AN / ASQ-502); -horizon system of electronic intelligence (in standby mode); On aircraft manufactured in 2011 installed an updated Radar warning receiver (STR) A-150 ( ist. - cm. several reports of users http://www.livejournal.com ).

Ejection device IR-traps and clutter at the bottom of the tail boom of the Su-34 production in 2011, the air base №7000 Baltimore, December 22, 2011 (author photo - Dmitry Chushkin, http://dmitrydreamer.livejournal.com ).

Equipment for in-flight refueling; on an airplane equipped with air conditioning, sanitary fixtures and bathroom cabinet for heating food;ejection seats K-36DM; life support system provides a pressurized cabin to an altitude of 10,000 meters; 

Ejection seat K-36DM

Modifications : - T-10B-1 / Su-27IB / Su-34-1 - the first prototype of the Su-34, created at the pilot plant OKB. Sukhoi by combining new armored cabin made ​​Chkalov NAPO (Novosibirsk), with an upgraded airframe Su-27UB. Board number "42", the first flight - 04.13.1990 r .;

Su-27IB (T-10B-1) at the airbase Machulishchy February 13, 1992 (A. Mikheev, A. Fomin, the Su-34. M., 1995)

Su-27IB (T-10B-1 board №42 "blue") after completions, LII, April 1995 (photo A.Miheeva, Mikheev A. Fomin, the Su-34. M., 1995 ) T-10B-1, T-10B-4 and one of the first production Su-34 without engines at the airport Air Force Ahtubinsk, 2008 (file photo Gast,http://www.militaryphotos.net ).

- T-10B-2 / Su-34 - pre-production prototype of the Su-34, built at the Novosibirsk plant NAPO Chkalov in 1993, the first flight - December 18, 1993 (pilots - I.V.Votintsev and EG .Revunov); T-10B-2 is produced entirely in the NAPO im.V.Chkalova. As ready units delivered cabin (pilot production of the Sukhoi Design Bureau) and keels Su-27 (KnAAPO Komsomolsk-on-Amur). The sources of information was that the aircraft was assembled using reserve on the prototype T -10-43 - information not later confirmed as not confirmed the existence of such a prototype.

The first flight of the prototype of pre-T-10B-2 (pilots and I.V.Votintsev E.G.Revunov), Novosibirsk Aircraft Plant them. Chkalov, 18 December 1993 ( http://www.avanturist.org ).

Su-34 (T-10B-2), the second prototype, LII, 1994 (A. Mikheev, A. Fomin, the Su-34. M., 1995)

- Su-34 FULLBACK / T-10V-5 - serial fighter-bomber (officially - bomber), the first flight - December 28, 1994 (the pilots - and E.N.Rudakas E.G.Revunov);

The first flight of the first production of the Su-34 / T-10B-5, Novosibirsk factory airfield im.V.Chkalova, 28.12.1994 city (Mikheyev A. Fomin, the Su-34. M., 1995). Su -34 / T-10B-4, 1990 ( http://www.militaryphotos.net ). Su-34 / T-10B-5 trials ( http://sukhoi.org ).

- Su-32FN - Fighter navy - a deliberately false name of the aircraft at Le Bourget in 1995 or export index of the aircraft.

- Su-34P - aircraft-jammer, according to media development was conducted as of 2000 - Su-34R - reconnaissance aircraft, according to media development was conducted as of 2000 - Su-34 mod.2011 - front Bomber - a modernized version of the Su-34, the name of conditional release of an aircraft according to information from June 2010 is scheduled to begin in 2011, will receive aircraft armament new types of missiles "air-land", the new engines AL-31FM1 and auxiliary gas turbines TA14-130-35. According to unconfirmed information (ist. - http://dmitrydreamer.livejournal.com ) aircraft manufactured in 2011 worth auxiliary power unit, but the AL-31FM-1 is not yet established. Just after delivery to the airbase Baltimore Su-34 production in 2011 on Internet forums discussing the possibility of the use of aircraft cockpit canopy elements with developments on research "Ashig" for the PAK-FA / T-50 .