“Fencer” (“fencer”)-this is how the front-line bomber with a wing of the changed swimming of the Su-24, specially created for the supersonic breakthrough of enemy air defense at extremely low altitudes with the envelope of the terrain and the application of missile and bombing weapons, as well as ammunition of the volumetric explosion, was dubbed into NATO. According to the Western military, in the mid-1970s, when this bomber was adopted, he “posed the greatest threat among all combat aircraft of the front-line aircraft of the USSR Air Force”-a record combat load, a huge range and the possibility of refueling in the air allowed “Su-24 of the first episodes for the characteristic rectangular cross-section of the fuselage) To hit the goals in fact anywhere in Europe. However, he had to accept combat baptism not in the West, but in Afghanistan – first in the 1984 panjier operation against the gang Ahmad Shah Masuda, and then when the Soviet troops were withdrawn, and the Su -24 from the territory of the USSR, …
Author
Markovsky Viktor Yuryevich, Podkhodchenko Igor Vladimirovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
War and we. Aviation collection
Genre
The history of wars
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