Russian SU-37 (Flanker-F) multi-role jet fighter aircraft

The Sukhoi Su-37 (NATO reporting name: Flanker-F) is a Russian experimental multi-role jet fighter aircraft. It is a single seat fighter modified from the 1st generation Su-35 prototypes for thrust vector control testing.

The Su-37 is derived from the original Su-35, which was initially designated Su-27M. A Su-27M prototype (T-10S-70) first flew in 1988. Changes from the Su-27 include canards, upgraded engines, new radar, and a digital fly by wire flight control system. Sukhoi changed the Su-27M's designation to Su-35 in 1993. Later Su-35 prototypes added a glass cockpit and modified tailfins.
The Su-35 design was modified into the Su-37 by adding 2D thrust vectoring nozzles. The first Su-37 test aircraft made its maiden flight in April 1996 equipped with vectoring nozzles. The Su-37 appeared at the 1996 Farnborough airshow piloted by Sukhoi test pilot Yevgeny Frolov. A second Su-37 was similarly converted in 1998.

Su-37 did not reach the production stage, although by mid-2000 Sukhoi introduced several modernizations of Su-27, such as Su-30MKI and 2nd generation Su-35/Su-35BM, which feature similar improvements such as improved avionics and radar systems, and thrust vectoring engines.

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• su-37
• flanker
• jet
• fighter
• aircraft
• sukhoi
• russian
• Farnborough
• airshow
• 2010

[ironsaber2]

@redsiinpa yes i know but the f35 is too computer reliant in my opinion

[redsiinpa]

@ironsaber2 Without computers making thousands of automatic flight surface adjustments, many of today's airframes wouldn't fly at all

[thevindicaresbrother]

@Dlob708 No. Nobody has the best. They're good, but they have their limits. All aircraft does. If it has no weakness, then it is the best.

But I have yet to hear of one that has no weaknesses.

[ironsaber2]

@ShootingStarSeva even if we go with the super hornet it would be better then the shitty f-35 at this point its liek a downgrade. shorter range, less weapons, slower, not as reliable, computer controlls too much of the plane. if the computer goes down so does the plane not like with Russian jets or older us made jets

[ShootingStarSeva]

@ironsaber2 sadly not! :( we're taking the F-35 D=

Maybe I'll design an aircraft based on the Su-37 XP and propose it to our government XD

[Dlob708]

Russian aircrafts are the best of the best is fact!And point

[ironsaber2]

amazing simply amazing i hope Canada goes Russian with their airforce