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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

DTN News: Russia's Sukhoi Begins Su-33 Flanker-D Trials....NSI News Source Info # 1118

(NSI News Source Info) MOSCOW, Russia - October 6, 2010: Russia's Sukhoi aircraft holding revealed on Tuesday it has begun ground and flight trials of the modernized fourth generation Su-33 naval fighter.
The Su-33 Flanker-D is a carrier-based warplane, originally known as the Su-27K Flanker, which first rolled off the production line in the late 1980s.
Modernization works and trials are being carried out in the Russian Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a statement from Sukhoi said