Description

We built a sukhoi su-9 (1946) not German, but a Soviet aircraft.

OPERATION EXPLANATION

Throttle:Engine start
VTOL:Flap

Weapon

N-37 37mm autocannon ×1

NS-23 23mm autocannons ×2

HISTORY

The Sukhoi Su-9 or ??????? K (Russian: Aircraft K); (USAF/DoD designation: Type 8), was an early jet fighter built in the Soviet Union shortly after World War II. The design began in 1944 and was intended to use Soviet-designed turbojet engines. The design was heavily influenced by captured German jet fighters and it was subsequently redesigned to use a Soviet copy of a German turbojet. The Su-9 was slower than competing Soviet aircraft and it was cancelled as a result. A modified version with different engines and a revised wing became the Su-11 (Samolyet KL), but this did not enter production either. The Su-13 (Samolyet KT) was a proposal to re-engine the aircraft with Soviet copies of the Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet as well as to modify it for night fighting, but neither proposal was accepted.