Key Points and Summary: Russia's Sukhoi Su-33 is a powerful and capable carrier-based fighter, superior in many ways to its naval counterpart, the MiG-29K. -However, this formidable aircraft is now ...

In the late 1980s, the then-USSR produced two prototypes for carrier-capable fighter aircraft. One was from Mikoyan, the MiG-29K-9.31, and the other from Sukhoi, the Su-27K. The latter was one of the ...

One of the Su-33’s significant shortcomings is the airplane’s size which is noticeably larger than the MiG-29K. The Su-33 could be Russia’s most dangerous carrier fighter. But the airplane’s footprint ...

CHELYABINSK, December 5. /TASS/. The Kremlin considers it important that a pilot remained alive in a Russian fighter jet crash during landing on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in the ...

The Su-33 is nearly synonymous with the Admiral Kuznetzov. As a carrier-capable fighter, it is often seen and photographed taking off from the sloped ski-jump flight deck, although it typically lands ...

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