Su-17 fighter-bomber. Killer “Spirits”: Markovsky, Podkhodchenko

The first Soviet plane with a variable wing geometry, this fighter-bomber remained in the ranks of a quarter century. As the result of a deep modernization of the legendary Su-7B (in addition to improving the runways, the new third-generation strike aircraft received a side computer, the laser system of illumination of the target, the telerediner for a guided weapon, etc.), the Su-17 accepted military baptism during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 and then fought around the world-from Livan, Livan. Angolas and Peru before Iraq, Yemen and Chad, and the latest cases of his combat use were recorded last year in Libya and Syria. But his “star hour” was the Afghan war-having entered the battle immediately after entering the Soviet troops, the “seventeenth” performed the entire range of tasks of fighter-bombardment aircraft, whether it is direct fire support, the destruction of pre-identified goals, “free hunting” or mining from the air, and his reconnaissance modifications were the “eyes” of the 40th army. Despite the meaning …

Author
Markovsky Viktor Yuryevich, Podkhodchenko Igor Vladimirovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
War and we. Aviation collection
Genre
The history of wars