Sukhoi

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Sukhoi Company <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;">Image:Sukhoi Company logo.svg</td></tr>
Type	Joint stock company
Founded	as OKB-51, 1939
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia <tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Pavel Sukhoi, founder</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Aerospace and defense</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th><td>Military aircraft Civil airliners</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>sukhoi.org</td></tr>

Sukhoi (pronounced [suk-oi]) (Сухой) is a major Russian military fighter aircraft manufacturer. Founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su), it is currently known as Sukhoi Corporation. It is comprised of the JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau located in Moscow, the Novosibirsk Aviation Production Association (NAPO), the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association (KnAAPO) and Irkutsk Aviation. Sukhoi is headquartered in Moscow. Finmeccanica is purchasing 25% of Sukhoi's civil division.<ref name="bbg_20060221">"Finmeccanica Will Buy 25% of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft." Bloomberg.com. February 21, 2006.</ref> The Russian government is planning to merge Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation.<ref name="nyt_united_aircraft">"Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." The New York Times. February 22, 2006.</ref>

Currently the Su-24, Su-25, Su-24M, Su-27, Su-30, and shipborne Su-33 aircraft are in service of the Russian Air Force and Navy. Sukhoi attack or fighter aircraft were supplied to India, China, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Syria, Algeria, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Angola, Ethiopia, and Peru. Venezuela will sign contracts for the purchase of 30 Su-30 fighter jets in July 2006. A total of more than 2000 Sukhoi aircraft were supplied to foreign countries on export contracts. With its Su-26, Su-29 and Su-31 models Sukhoi is also one of the leading manufacturers of aerobatics aircraft.

On August 4, 2006 the Bush administration imposed sanctions on Sukhoi for supplying Iran in violation of the United States Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000. Sukhoi is now prohibited from doing business with the United States Federal Government.<ref name="washintonpost">"U.S. Sanctions Companies Over Iran", Washington Post, 2006-08-04.</ref> <ref name="people's daily">"Russia slams U.S. sanctions on Russian arms companies", People's Daily Online, 2006-08-05.</ref>

1 Production aircraft
2 Experimental aircraft
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Production aircraft

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Su-2 - light bomber
Su-7 'Fitter' - attack plane
Su-9 'Fishpot' - interceptor fighter
Su-11 'Fishpot-C' - interceptor fighter
Su-12 - observation plane (1947)
Su-15 'Flagon' - interceptor fighter
Su-17/Su-20/Su-22 'Fitter' - attack plane
Su-24 'Fencer' - jet bomber
Su-25 'Frogfoot' - ground attack aircraft
Su-26 single seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
Su-27 'Flanker A/B'
Su-28/Su-25UB - Trainer and Demostrator
Su-29 double- seat aerobatic aircraft (civil)
Su-30 'Flanker-C'
Su-31 single seat aerobatic aircraft ( civil)
Su-33 'Flanker-D', carrier-based aircraft
Su-34 'Fullback' "Platypus"
Su-27M/Su-35 'Flanker-E'
Su-37 'Terminator'
Su-47 'Berkut'
Su-25TM/ Su-39 'Frogfoot' - ground attack aircraft, optimised for anti-tank use
Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21, a supersonic business jet design.
S-80, a twin-turboprop STOL
Superjet 100

[edit] Experimental aircraft

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Su-5 - jet-propeller fighter
Su-6 - ground attack aircraft
Su-8 - ground attack aircraft
Su-9 - jet fighter
Su-37 'Flanker-F' ("Terminator"), an improved Su-35
Su-38 light agricultural aircraft
S-32/37 Berkut - multirole fighter (was marketed for a time under the designation Su-47)
T-4 - supersonic bomber, very similar in concept to the American XB-70 Valkyrie
Sukhoi PAK FA

Note: The Sukhoi OKB has reused aircraft designations on occasion, for example: the Su-9 from 1946 and the later Su-9 from 1956, the former was not produced in quantity. Sukhoi prototype designations are based on wing layout planform. Straight and swept wings are assigned the "S" prefix, while delta winged designs(including tailed-delta) have "T" for a designation prefix.

Example: S-37 and T-10.

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