I think DCS needs to get the contract for training on these!

"A two-crew design with side-by-side seating, the Su-34 (Western reporting name Fullback) has been developed over a 20-year period from the Su-27. It performs all-weather day or night strikes on land, sea and aerial targets using guided weapons and bombs. It features “active flight safety,” with trajectory-calculating computers ensuring safe maneuvering and weapons release while avoiding flight into terrain. Among other capabilities, flight crews of the first squadron have mastered the techniques required to fire at four targets simultaneously, the Western district reported."

Rest of the story HERE! (Aviation International News)

BeachAV8R

Maybe i am wierd, but i love the design of the russian birds !!

A cool detail is that the crew enters the aircraft through a hatch in the nose-wheel gear bay, climbing a ladder on the gear itself...

Pic:
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/su34/su346.html

Kinda like a B-1B?

Been one of my most favorite Su designs of all time. Search out videos on youtube of this bad boy. Some wild ones in there.

Wow..I had no idea about that nosewheel access. That is cool..

Nice to have a two person crew. Hard to appreciate fart smells when you are solo...

The Plane does have a galley and a toilet you know.

I can only imagine how it must be to pilot a multimillion dollar machine at supersonic speeds
into deadly enemy territory and then:

"FFFFFffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... BRRRrrrrrrrr... Booom! aahhhhhh..."

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6583/astoiwl2.jpg

What are they making in that galley to get gas like that. Eeeew. I can smell it here. Oh wait, the boy just passed through.
Not a wonder.

[/quote]Hard to appreciate fart smells when you are solo...[quote]

Bet that sucker's fun to fly.

I hope the toilet has a good latch on the lid for when the plane goes inverted.

It's just a hole. The pressure difference will suck it right out of you

We have a "relief tube" in the King Air that is basically a funnel with a tube attached to it under the pilots seat. Uses the same concept..pressurized cabin, hit the little valve on it and it sucks stuff down it. I've never seen anyone use it..although we often try to get new guys to hold it up to the their mouths when we tell them it is the intercom mic to talk to the nurses in the back.



Relief Tube..

Oh no, beach, that is just... wrong

At least the name Fullback gives it a lot more street credibility than Platypus

A neat aircraft for sure but the design seems a little long in the tooth, maybe they are just throwing Sukhoi a bone and thinking of it as an interim measure? I know they probably could have found these very useful in the South Ossetia war vs their Su-24Ms and other older strike aircraft. Supposedly the Su-34 is decently armored so it might still have a decent career as a CAS/COIN type platform once its no longer able to deal with advanced threats.

seems F1-11 like to me.

Wow! Mach 1.6 at altitude...that thing's fast, too!