Fulcrum & Flanker, the Soviet’s Latest Fighters

Fulcrum and Flanker

The New Look in Soviet Air Superiority

One of the most remarkable side effects of the internal political upheavals in the Communist Bloc has been the public display of the latest generation of Soviet tactical aircraft.

The Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum A and Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker B have been thus scrutinised in a way that no other Soviet aircraft of their kind have been in the past. The principal conclusion which we may draw is simple: the Soviets have finally produced a generation of aircraft which are comparable in the least in performance with the generation of aircraft which have protected Western skies since the seventies. The implications of this in the area of air war strategy are alarming, as Soviet air power is no longer tied down to local ground control by inferior combat radius and primitive fire control systems – the Fulcrum and in particular Flanker are aircraft designed specifically for long range offensive air warfare.

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