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Flight Craft 5: Sukhoi Su-15: The 'Boeing Killer' (Paperback)
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Flight Craft 5: Sukhoi Su-15: The 'Boeing Killer' (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 340
You Save R98 (18%)
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In the late 1950s, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, already an established
fighter maker, started work on a successor to its Su-9 and Su-11
single-engined interceptors for the national Air Defence Force.
Similar to its predecessors, the new aircraft designated Su-15 had
delta wings; unlike the Su-9/Su-11, however, it had twin engines
and lateral air intakes freeing up the nose for a powerful fire
control radar. First flown in May 1962, the Su-15 officially
entered service in 1965 and was built in several versions, the late
ones having cranked-delta wings and a more capable radar. Being an
air defence fighter, the Su-15 frequently had to deal with
intruders. Unfortunately the aircraft gained notoriety in two
separate incidents involving shoot-downs of Boeing airliners (a 707
in 1978 and a 747 in 1983), both of which were South Korean and had
intruded into Soviet airspace on what was very probably clandestine
spy missions. This book describes the developmental and service
history of the Sukhoi-Su-15, containing a comprehensive survey of
all model-making kits currently available on the market.
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