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| Displaying a close conceptual similarity to the Messerschmitt Me 262, the Su-9 single-seat fighter, also known as Samolet (Aircraft) K, entered flight test in the autumn of 1946. Of all-metal construction with a semi-monocoque, oval-section fuselage and single-spar wings, the Su-9 had an armament of one 37mm and two 23mm cannon, and was powered by two 900kg Junkers Jumo 004B turbojets (which had been copied for manufacture in the Soviet Union as the RD-10). The Su-9 embodied a number of innovatory features insofar as Soviet technology was concerned, these including hydraulically-boosted control surfaces, a cordite-fired ejection seat, a variable-incidence tailplane, provision for assisted take-off rockets and a braking parachute. Racks under the centre fuselage permitted carriage of one 500kg or two 250kg bombs. The Su-9 was shown publicly over Tushino on 3 August 1947, and with completion of State testing in the following December, series production was recommended. However, although possessing no more than a superficial resemblance to the Me 262, its configurational similarity to the German fighter was a stigma which led Yosif Stalin to reject the Su-9 out of hand.
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 6380 kg | 14066 lb |
| Empty weight | 4060 kg | 8951 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 11.21 m | 37 ft 9 in |
| Length | 10.57 m | 35 ft 8 in |
| Height | 3.72 m | 12 ft 2 in |
| Wing area | 20.24 m2 | 217.86 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 900 km/h | 559 mph |
| Range | 1140 km | 708 miles |
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| Graham Clayton, e-mail, 12.02.2021 07:07 Fuselage slimmer and thinner than a Me-262. reply | | Steve Kelley, e-mail, 14.06.2012 06:04 Francisco: I look for odd kits and have never seen one of this aircraft. But I scratch built one in 1 /144 scale. It was pretty easy in that scale. reply | | DebtMan, e-mail, 16.10.2010 03:23 A russian Me-262?Ha ha is so very rare reply | | Leo Rudnicki, e-mail, 27.07.2009 19:39 The profile is Su-11 reply | |
| | Francisco José Abel Conde, e-mail, 25.09.2007 22:40 Hi. I´m Francisco José Abel Conde, from Spain. I´m a modeller of kits of planes. I´d like very much to know if i can to get a kit of this plane (Sukhoi 9 k) on 1 /72 scale.
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