Country of Origin. CIS (formerly USSR).
Similar Aircraft.
A-6 Intruder,
Magister,
Alpha Jet,
Jaguar,
AMX,
A-10A Thunderbolt II.
Crew. One.
Role. CAS, ground-attack.
Armament. Cannon missiles, rockets, bombs.
Dimensions. Length: 47 ft, 6 in (14.6 m). Span: 50 ft, 10 in (15.6 m).
Wings. High-mounted and back-tapered with straight trailing edges. Pods mounted at the square tips.
Engine(s). Two turbojets mounted alongside the body under the wings. Semicircular air intakes forward of the wings’ leading edges. Exhausts to the rear of the wings’ trailing edges.
Fuselage. Long, slender, rounded nose. Body tapers to the rear section that overhangs the exhausts. Stepped canopy.
Tail. Swept-back and tapered fin with a square tip. Flats mid-mounted on the fuselage, unequally tapered with blunt tips.
Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, CIS, Czech Republic, Iraq, Georgia, Hungary, Iran, North Korea, Slovakia, Ukraine.
Updated: 30 January 2008 | Born 02 September 2000 |