1/72 Unicraft Sukhoi Su-15 - 1948 Soviet Heavy All Weather Fighter
Vaccuform Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
Still factory tape sealed. Rare. Nicely detailed, limited-run resin kit. Not to be confused with the later, delta-winged, Su-15 'Flagon', the first Sukhoi Su-15 (given the internal designation of 'P') was a twin-engined swept-wing interceptor that made its maiden flight on 11 January 1949. In designing the fighter, the design team adopted an unusual vertically staggered engine arrangement with the upper RD-45 turbojet mounted conventionally in the rear fuselage and exhausting at the tail. whilst the lower engine was mounted further forward and exhausted under the center fuselage. Both engines were fed by a nose intake with bifurcated trunking and the cockpit was offset to the left to accommodate the duct to the rear engine. The fighter was to have had a speed of 652 mph at sea level and 621 mph at 16,404ft. A radome housing the Tory radar was mounted above the nose intake and armament comprised twin NS-37 - 37mm cannon in the lower nose. On its 39th flight on 3 June 1949 severe flutter developed and the pilot, Sergei Anokhin had to bail out. A second prototype incorporating the lessons learned, was under construction but was never finished.
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