Kitty Hawk 80163 1/48 Su-27 Flanker-B* DISCONTINUED

The Su-27 is a large fighter aircraft developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau based on the research of the Soviet Union's TsAGI (Central Institute for Fluid Mechanics), and is still in use in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Third World. It features a blended-wing body design, the first fly-by-wire control system in Soviet aircraft, and a large Pugachov Cobra engine for high mobility. "Flanker" is its NATO code name; the single-seat fighter type was known as "Flanker B" and the double-seat training aircraft was called "Flanker C."