Month: August 2022

The SR-92 is the US military’s advanced hypersonic interceptor, its forerunners operated for years in secret service without public knowledge and existed under three classified programs throughout the 1980s and 90s. The earliest program to succeed the SR-71 was the SR-81 program codenamed Aurora. Aurora was built around a scramjet-powered engine that had a considerably…
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The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft developed in the Soviet Union; it was comparable to the American F-111 when it first entered service in the early 1970s, both aircraft have a variable-sweep wing, twin-engines, and a side-by-side seating arrangement for its crew of two. It was the first…
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The Sukhoi Su-34 (Russian: Сухой Су-34; NATO reporting name: Fullback) is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Soviet Air Forces, and it entered service in 2014 with the Russian Air Force. Based on the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker air superiority fighter, the Su-34 has…
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