AEROFAX: SUKHOI Su-7/17/20/22

The Aerofax treatment is given to the "Fitter" family of Soviet fighters and fighter-bombers, as always with masses of fresh information and images emerging from previously unseen Russian sources. The Su-7 was first flown in 1958, with deliveries to the Soviet Air Force beginning in the same year. It could be seen as the Soviet contemporary of the F-100 Super Sabre. The original high-speed, highly manoeuvrable single-seat fighter was developed in several versions and produced in large numbers for the VVS and Warsaw Pact countries during the 1960s. It was developed in the late 1960s with a completely new variable-sweep wing as the Su-17 fighter-bomber, again further modified during its long life to take on many other roles including reconnaissance, training and so on. The Su-22 was an export version of the Su-17, and the "Fitter" family has served with many air forces in Europe, Libya, Peru, Vietnam and Syria. With 233 black and white and 155 colour photographs, nine pages of line drawings and thirteen pages of colour views.