اهتمام الامارات بالسوخوي ليس وليد اللحظة بل له امتداد قديم مهم ..
How the Arabs helped ‘Su’
Simonov insists that perestroika allowed the Su-27 to become the best of the best. A lack of money in the Nineties forced the Sukhoi Company to make a desperate move – to try to sell the jet abroad. The first place they looked was the United Arab Emirates.
“At that time, their air force was headed by Colonel Khalid,” recalls Simonov. “He wasn’t a flexible man. As he looked at and flew our fighter jet, he said: ‘It’s not bad, but can it sink a destroyer?’ But these were two different things… It’s one thing to conduct air combat, and completely another to destroy underwater and ground targets.”
This could have been the end of the conversation. Intead, Simonov proposed the Arabs formulate their demands for the machine: “If you want the fighter jet to be able to hit targets at a distance of 100km – that can be done. You want it to sink destroyers – it will do.”
So, the Su-27 became a multi-function fighter – though the Arabs did not buy it. Khalid admitted that the Americans would not have allowed them to do so. It is often said that the Su-27 and Su-30 are the best, but they have not been used in a single war. So how could their superiority be proved?
“That is, of course, a secret,” smiles Simonov.
This display of equipment was not simply advertising, but a comparison with competitors – at least with the French Mirages that were part of the UAE inventory. How could they be compared? Two of their best pilots took turns flying the aircraft, the Mirage and Su. All flight information was documented and the information analysed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsore...-the-inventor-of-the-Sukhoi-jet-fighters.html
في ذلك الوقت .. اهتمت الامارات بالسوخوي 27 وقام قائد القوات الجوية والدفاع الجوي الاماراتي آنذاك ( خالد البوعينين ) بتجربة المقاتلة وطلب ان تكون قادرة على اغراق مدمرة ... في ذلك الوقت لم تكن السوخوي 27 ( بحسب المصمم ميخائيل سايمونوف ) تقوم سوى بمهام القتال الجوي ..
بسبب الاهتمام الاماراتي , تحولت السوخوي 27 لمقاتلة متعددة مهام .
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السوخوي 27 تشكل الاساس للسوخوي 35 ..
هي كمنصة كما سبق وذكرت ... اجدني معجبا بايروديناميكيتها ( مع تحفظ على البصمة الرادارية والحرارية والكهرومغناطيسية ... ليست لدي معلومات دقيقة حولها ولكن افترض ارتفاعها )
منصة قابلة للاضافات بشكل مميز ( بسبب العلاقة الدفاعية والتصنيعية بين الامارات والروس .. قد نجد طائرة لا تأخذ من الـ Su-35S سوى الاسم والـ Airframe وربما بعض التسليح .. فيما عدا ذلك ( اتوقع ان تضيف الامارات افيونكس غربي عليها للتوائم مع موجودات سلاح الجو والدفاع الجوي الاماراتي .. اتوقع ان تضيف تسليحها وانظمتها المطورة محليا , ان سمح الروس بمعاملة المنصة كـ Open Source ولا اتوقع اعتراضات فقد فعلوها مع الهند والصين قبلا )
