Su-24

Design

The aircraft is a twin-engine high-wing aircraft with variable sweep wing. Depending on the flight mode, the front parts of the wing (console) are set in one of four positions: 16° - on takeoff and landing, 35° - in cruising subsonic flight, 45° - during combat maneuvering and 69° - when flying on transonic and supersonic speeds. The plane has a three-post retractable landing gear.

The aircraft is a twin-engine high-wing aircraft with variable sweep wing. Depending on the flight mode, the front parts of the wing (console) are set in one of four positions: 16° - on takeoff and landing, 35° - in cruising subsonic flight, 45° - during combat maneuvering and 69° - when flying on transonic and supersonic speeds. The plane has a three-post retractable landing gear.

Su-24 (product T-6, according to NATO codification: Fencer - “Fencer”) is a Soviet and Russian tactical front-line bomber with a variable sweep wing, designed to deliver missile and bomb strikes in simple and difficult weather conditions, day and night, including including at low altitudes with targeted destruction of ground and surface targets. Carrier of tactical nuclear charges.

On August 31, 2016, the operation of the Su-24 bombers in the original version (without a letter in the index) was completed in the Russian Aerospace Forces. The bombers were taken out of service. Su-24M/M2 should be withdrawn from service by 2020, possibly in a few years (Su-24M2).