FLANKERs in Formation
by Richard J. Terry, 1986
Su-27 FLANKER all-weather, air-superiority fighters, deployed in the late 1980s, were equipped with a look-down/shoot-down weapons system and beyond-visual-range AA-10 missiles. The FLANKER, built in Komsomolsk, emerged from an expanding industrial base that gave highest priority to military production.
