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The Sukhoi Su-57 (Russian: Сухой Су-57; NATO reporting name: Felon) [5] [6] is a twin-engine stealth multirole fighter aircraft developed by Sukhoi. [7] It is the product of the PAK FA (Russian: ПАК ФА, prospective aeronautical complex of front-line aviation) programme, which was initiated in 1999 as a more modern and affordable alternative to the MFI (Mikoyan Project 1.44/1.42).
22 September – A Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet was probably accidentally shot down by a Su-35 fighter jet during exercises near a village in Tver Oblast. The two pilots ejected before the aircraft crashed and were reported to be in a "stable condition".
The Russian government claimed the plane was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces while it was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, as well as 6 crew members and 3 guards. One Ukrainian newspaper reported that, according to their sources in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , the aircraft was a legitimate military target ...
Ukrainian forces have for the first time hit a latest-generation Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet at an air base inside Russia, Kyiv's GUR defence intelligence agency said on Sunday, showing ...
[195] [196] Another aircraft, a Su-24M, Yellow 59, was shot down by an enemy missile after returning from a mission on 12 October. [197] [198] One of the pilots survived, the other, Dmytro Bortnyk died. [199] Russian media reported on 27 November that an Su-24 was shot down in air combat by a MiG-31 with a missile. [200] 12 October MiG-29
A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB crashed during the Lviv airshow, killing 77 spectators, 28 of them children. [46] 199 were injured. The two pilots managed to eject, but the aircraft crashed onto spectators watching the airshow from the ground. The aircraft lacked the altitude to escape the crash, hit the tribune and fell on the ground.
Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-25SM RF-94586/06, c/n 10393, is shot down over Idlib province while providing air support to Syrian government forces attacking the city of Saraqib. Pilot Major Roman Filipov manages to eject but is wounded while fighting militants after landing in a rebel controlled territory; he blows himself up to avoid capture.
In 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian BUK missile system with the loss of 298 passengers and crew.. In 1983, the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air ...