The first task assigned to the revived Sukhoi OKB was development of a new tactical fighter and a new interceptor, with both machines based on the advanced AL-7F afterburning turbojet, then in development at the engine OKB run by Arkhip Lyulka. The original machines bearing those designations had never entered production, and the Soviets saw no reason not to recycle the designations. Ironically, the new Sukhoi organization would end up producing the Su-9, Su-11, and Su-15 - but only as entirely different aircraft.
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Pavel Sukhoi didn't call it quits, however.įollowing the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1953, Sukhoi successfully lobbied to take charge of a revived Sukhoi OKB, which would prove highly successful. Given the poor track record of the Sukhoi OKB, the loss of the Su-15 was the straw that broke the camel's back: the organization was disbanded. It was lost in a flight accident on 3 June 1949. The OKB then developed a prototype of a jet twin-engine swept-wing interceptor, the "Su-15", which was notable for being in competition for the title of the ugliest jet combat aircraft ever built. After the German invasion of the USSR in the summer of 1941, Sukhoi obtained his own OKB, but none of the aircraft designed by his organization entered large-scale service with the Red Air Force.Īfter the end of the conflict, the Sukhoi OKB developed a twin-engine jet fighter, the "Su-9", with a broad resemblance to the German Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter, but neither the Su-9 nor its slightly improved derivative, the "Su-11", entered production.
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Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi started out his work in aircraft design in the experimental design bureau (OKB in its Russian acronym) run by the prominent Andrei N.