Sukhoi Su-19
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| Type: | Front bomber |
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The Sukhoi Su-19 ( Russian Сухой Су-19 , NATO code name : Fencer , German Fechter ) was the West's initial name for the Su-24 bomber .
Designation Sukhoi Su-19 of NATO
In early 1974, the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Admiral Thomas Moorer , made a statement that an aircraft in the General Dynamics F-111 class had appeared in the Soviet Union , which NATO experts had classified as a Su-19 and was given the NATO code name "Fencer". It later emerged that Sukhoi did not build an aircraft with the designation Su-19 and that the aircraft designated by NATO as the Su-19 was the Su-24 .
The drawings that the Pentagon released for the Su-19 showed an aircraft that looked less like the Su-24 and more like the F-111. The first pictures showed, so to speak, the Su-19 as F-111 with air intakes like the MiG-25 . In later pictures of the Su-19, an F-111 could be seen again, so to speak, with air inlets, which this time were a bit too small, but shown in the correct form of the Su-24. This time, however, air brakes were incorrectly shown on the sides of the rear of the fuselage (comparable to the air brakes of the Su-17 ). In all of the pictures of the Pentagon, the weapon mounts on the moving part of the pivoting wings were missing.
When the official name Su-24 became known, the name Su-19 was no longer used by the West and the NATO code name "Fencer" was used for the Su-24.
Designation Sukhoi Su-19 of the OKB Sukhoi
In 1972 and 1973, the Sukhoi design office proposed a new version of the Sukhoi Su-15 under the project name T-58PS . This version should have a built-in cannon on the lower central hull. The previous wings were to be replaced by ogival wings like the T-10 flanker fighter under development. The T-10s were the first prototypes for the later, heavily revised Sukhoi Su-27 machines. The Su-19 would have had eight armament points compared to the six armament points of the Su-15. Another design by Sukhoi was the Su-19M. This was in fact the Su-19 design with modern R67-300 engines. However, the military was not interested in these Su-19 projects.
literature
- Jefim Gordon , Dmitri Komissarow: Sukhoi Su-24, Famous Russian Aircraft . Crecy Publishing Ltd., Manchester England 2016, ISBN 978-1-85780-370-9 , pp. 40 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jefim Gordon, Dmitri Komissarow: Sukhoi Interceptors , Schiffer Military 2019, ISBN 978-0-7643-5868-5 , p. 244.