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A derivation of the Su-27 it was originally identified as the Su-27M. It was developed to better the US F-15 and F-16, the proposed improvements would greatly enhance its air combat capabilities and the addition of a proposed new AAM missile with a 400 km range would render the craft truly formidable.
Following flight tests from 1988, based on the 1985 experimental T10-24, the first prototype was publicly displayed in 1992 at the Farnborough Air Show. Flight testing continued and up to 1994 eleven prototypes were built. Intended to enter service around 1995, the first test flights of an improved Su-35, the Su-37, in 1996 and the transfer of existing Su-35 prototypes to this program appeared to suggest the end of the Su-35 without any production aircraft.
It shares much in common with the naval variant of the Su-27, the Su-33, notably the larger wings and the more powerful engines. Other changes from the Su-27 were canardIn aeronautics, canard ( French for duck) is a type of fixed-wing aircraft in which the tailplane is ahead of the main lifting surfaces, rather than behind them as in conventional aircraft. The earliest models, such as the Santos-Dumont 14-bis, were seens, a larger nose, the greater use of carbon fibre and aluminiumAluminium (or aluminum in North American English) is the chemical element in the periodic table with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. A silvery and ductile member of the poor metal group of elements, aluminium is found primarily as the ore bauxite and- lithiumThis article is about Lithium, the element. For the article on mood-stabilizing drugs, see Lithium salt. Lithium is the chemical element with symbol Li and atomic number 3. In the periodic table, it is located in group 1, among the alkali metals. Lithium alloyAn alloy is a combination, either in solution or compound, of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal. An alloy with two components is called a binary alloy; one with three is a ternary alloy; one with four is a quaternary alloy. The result in the airframe, and larger, squarer tail fins. The new nose holds an improved radarThis article is about the device. For the fictional character in M A S H see Corporal Walter (Radar) O'Reilly. antenna (approximately 40m (130ft) in diameter) rotates on a track to observe activities near the horizon. Radar is an acronym for ra dio d etec and the aircraft had many other upgrades to its avionicsThe onboard electronics used for piloting an aircraft are called avionics . Avionics include communications and navigation systems, autopilots, and electronic flight management systems (FMS). Onboard electronics that are unrelated to piloting tasks, such and electronic systems, including digital fly-by-wire and a rear-radar for firing SARH missiles.
A two-dimensional asymmetric thrust vectoring system was tested on the Su-35 and seems to be the basis for the development of the Su-37.
A two-seater Su-35 variant crashed in the Paris Airshow in 2002, after the plane skidded the ground, caught fire and the pilots were forced to eject.