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Product Description
The Sukhoi Su-25 (NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) was designed by Sukhoi Design Bureau as a result of studies in the late 1960s on an aircraft to fill the Sturmovik ground attack role (so-named after the famous Ilyushin Il-2 of World War II renown). The Frogfoot is a single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft. It? heavily armed with a Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2 30mm cannon and various air-to-ground munitions; it can carry more than 4,000 kg of weaponry in the ground-attack role. It is comparable to the A-10 Thunderbolt II.
The first prototype made its maiden flight on 22 February 1975. After testing, the aircraft went into series production in 1978 at Tbilisi in the Soviet Republic of Georgia. Russian air and ground forces nicknamed it ?rach?("Rook").
During its more than twenty-five years in service, the Su-25 has seen combat with several air forces. It was heavily involved in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, flying counter-insurgency missions against the Mujahideen. Frogfoots launched a total of 139 guided missiles of all types against Mujahideen positions. On average, each aircraft performed 360 sorties a year, a total considerably higher than that of any other combat aircraft in Afghanistan. By the end of the war, nearly 50 Su-25s were deployed at Afghan airbases, carrying out a total of 60,000 sorties.
The Iraqi Air Force employed Su-25s against Iran during the 1980?9 Iran?raq War. Most of them were later destroyed or fled to Iran in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The basic Su-25 model was used as the basis for a commercial export variant, known as the Su-25K (Komercheskiy). This model was also built at Factory 31 in Tbilisi. The aircraft differed from the Soviet Air Force version in certain minor details concerning internal equipment. A total of 180 Su-25K aircraft were built between 1984 and 1989.
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