Sukhoi Design Bureau - Projects

In November 1949, a government's resolution scrapped the Design Bureau, not to be resurrected till May 1953, when it was set up with new production facilities. The Design Bureau got a new lease on life with the advent of supersonic jet aviation. The development of a new generation of fighters and interceptors was set by several resolutions of the USSR Council of Ministers back in 1953. The tasks were set by two design bureaus: A.I.I. Mikoyan and restored shortly after the death of I.V. Stalin OKB-51 P.O.Sukhoi.

Returning to active work in the rank of chief designer, P.O. Sukhoi also did not begin to exchange for trifles and laid down four parallel projects, or rather, two vehicles - a fighter and an interceptor, each in two versions - with an arrow-shaped (series "S") and a triangular (series "T") wing (interestingly, that later, in OKB-51, apparently, they preferred to forget about the "deep" sense of these lettering, so later the T-8 (Su-25) and T-10 (Su-27) did not appear with triangular wings).