
Test Pilot: Yuri Vaschuk (Hero of the Russian Federation)
If anyone tells you that you cannot take a 24-yard long plane from a
curvilinear speed of 500 miles per hour, point the nose up, and come
to a dead stop in the sky, show him this video:
Su35s standing dead still in the air
This plane weighs 19000kg (19 metric tons)=42,000lbs and its length is halfway
from the end-zone to the center line of an American football field.

Data from KnAAPO,[41][195] Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2013[196]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 21.9 m (71 ft 10 in)
- Wingspan: 15.3 m (50 ft 2 in)
- Height: 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in)
- Wing area: 62 m2 (670 sq ft)
- Airfoil: 5%
- Empty weight: 19,000 kg (41,888 lb) [197]
- Gross weight: 25,300 kg (55,777 lb) with 50% internal fuel
- Max takeoff weight: 34,500 kg (76,059 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 11,500 kg (25,400 lb) internal
- Powerplant: 2 × Saturn AL-41F1S afterburning turbofan engines, 86.3 kN (19,400 lbf) thrust each dry, 142 kN (32,000 lbf) with afterburner
Performance
- Maximum speed: 2,400 km/h (1,500 mph, 1,300 kn) / M2.25 at altitude 1,400 km/h (870 mph; 760 kn) / M1.13 at sea level
- Cruise speed: 1,250 km/h (780 mph, 670 kn) / M1.1+ supercruise at medium altitude[198]
- Range: 3,600 km (2,200 mi, 1,900 nmi) at altitude1,580 km (982 mi) at sea level
- Combat range: 1,600 km (990 mi, 860 nmi) approx[199]
- Ferry range: 4,500 km (2,800 mi, 2,400 nmi) with 2 external fuel tanks
- Service ceiling: 18,000 m (59,000 ft)
- g limits: +9
- Rate of climb: 280 m/s (55,000 ft/min) +
- Wing loading: 408 kg/m2 (84 lb/sq ft) With 50% fuel 500.8 kg/m2 (102.6 lb/sq ft) with full internal fuel
- Thrust/weight: 1.13 with 50% fuel 0.92 with full internal fuel
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