While externally similar... Summary and Key Points: The Su-27 “Flanker,” designed by Sukhoi, is considered the best Soviet fighter of the Cold War. Emerging in the 1970s and 1980s as part of a ...

The Su-26 Flanker served as the backbone of the Russian ... When the Soviets first received word of the U.S. Air Force’s F-X program in the late 1960s, the race to produce a near-peer fighter ...