Russia Is Sending 24 Su-35 Fighters to Iran, Signaling Growing Ties Between the Nations. Iran also added a small number of Russian MiG-29 fighters and Su-24 attack jets in the 1990s. MiG-21 Fishbed MiG-23 Flogger MiG-25 Foxbat MiG-27 Flogger MiG-29 Fulcrum MiG-31 Foxhound Su-15 Flagon Su-24 Fencer Su-25 Frogfoot Su-27 Flanker Family Su-30 Multi-Role Flanker Su-33 Navy Flanker Su-34 (Su-32) Bomber Flanker Su-27M (Su-35) Super Flanker Su-35 4++ Generation Flanker Su-37 Terminator Tu-22 Blinder Tu-22M Backfire Tu-160 Blackjack According to him, Ukraine operates four types of aircraft: Su-27 and MiG-29 (fighters), Su-25 and Su-24 (attack aircraft/bomber). The F-16, however, can combine and fulfil the functions of all four planes. Ignat notes that as a result, more attention is dedicated to it to supply Ukraine. The Su-27 Flanker and the MiG-29 Fulcrum were both designed and built by Russia to fight World War III side-by-side. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, that conflict didn't happen. However, the two Russian fighters would square off over Eastern Africa. Since Eritrea won its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, a border dispute had been simmering The Soviets started two parallel programs around the time the US was doing the F15/F16 programs. Their objectives were to counter the F-15, producing the higher performance SU-27 and the F-16, producing the MiG-29. The MiG-29 was, perhaps surprisingly, flown by a Canadian pilot at an air show and quickly debriefed.
Suchoj Su-27. Ukrainsk Suchoj Su-27. Suchoj Su-27, förkortat Su-27 ( ryska ː Сухой Су-25. NATO-rapporteringsnamn: Flanker ), är ett sovjetiskt / ryskt jaktflygplan utvecklat av den ryska flygtillverkaren Suchoj. Utvecklingen av Su-27 kom som ett svar på de nya amerikanska stridsflygplanen Grumman F-14 Tomcat och McDonnell Douglas F
