Calibre Wings – Su-24M Fencer-E , ’41‘ Russian Air Force

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- sběratelský model letadla Su-24MR Fencer 1/72  
- provedení: kovový model s plastovými částmi
- detailně zpracovaný model

                   Sukhoi Su-24 ‘Fencer’

Suchoj Su-24 (kód NATO „Fencer“) je nadzvukový, dvoumístný, dvoumotorový hornoplošný taktický bombardérs měnitelnou geometrií křídel určený pro boj za každého počasí, vyvinutý v SSSR.

The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, twin-engines and a side-by-side seating arrangement for its two crew. It was the first of the USSR’s aircraft to carry an integrated digital navigation/attack system.

Su-24MR (‘Fencer-E’)Dedicated tactical reconnaissance variant. First flight 25 July 1980 as T-6MR-26, 13 April 1983 as Su-24MR. Entered service in 1983. Su-24MR retains much of the Su-24M’s navigation suite, including the terrain-following radar, but deletes the Orion-A attack radar, the laser/TV system, and the cannon in favor of two panoramic camera installations, ‘Aist-M’ (‘Stork’) TV camera, RDS-BO ‘Shtik’ (‘Bayonet’) side-looking airborne radar (SLAR), and ‘Zima’ (‘Winter’) infrared reconnaissance system. Other sensors are carried in pod form. Manufactured 1983–1993.It is also being modernized.

The Soviet Air Forces (Russian: Военно-воздушные силы, Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily (VVS), literally “Military Air Forces”) was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces.