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The Su-7B was developed as a new type of ground support aircraft, a fighter-bomber. We introduce a new strike aircraft for the USSR, the first jet vehicle in the glorious Sukhoi attack aircraft family!
Su-7B, attack fighter, USSR, VI rank
Pros
- Good horizontal flight speed
- A variety of mounted weapons
Cons
- Mediocre controllability
- No guided weapons
With the development of jet aviation, piston-engined attack aircraft quickly became an anachronism; a need arose for a new class of front-line aircraft - a fighter bomber. In the USSR, the MiG-15 and MiG-17 fighter jets were used to replace the piston-engined IL-10 to support the ground forces from the air, but it was quite obvious that a specialized machine was needed to fulfill the tasks of the fighter-bomber. The most suitable candidate was the Sukhoi Su-7 fighter jet, taken as the basis for the Su-7B fighter-bomber project. By the end of 1958, the first prototype was ready with the new AL-7F-1 engine. For almost two years, the aircraft underwent intensive testing and refinement, and in 1960 the new fighter-bomber went into mass production. Of the 431 planned, 344 Su-7Bs were built to equip up to 25 combat units. From the beginning of the 70’s, the Su-7B aircraft began to be replaced with more modern modifications and models.
In our game, the Su-7B will appear in the next update of War Thunder: Starfighters at rank VI in the USSR combat aviation tech tree. With this model we begin the addition of the Sukhoi attack aircraft to the game, well-known combat machines that took part in a number of armed conflicts of modern times.
The Su-7B is a supersonic attack aircraft, capable to quite effectively support ground forces in mixed battles, destroy enemy helicopters, but devoid of air-to-air guided missiles to battle the fighter-interceptors. The Su-7B reaches a maximum speed of almost Mach 2 (more than 2150 km / h), but the Su-7B has obvious problems with maneuvering at high speeds. The offensive armament of the aircraft is a pair of 30mm NR-30 cannons with a stock of 80 shells per barrel. These are well suited for the destruction of helicopters or even light vehicles - SPAAGs, IFVs, or ATGM carriers.
Mounted weapons are what is definitely worth developing in this aircraft. The overall payload is relatively small - up to 2 tons, but the armament is quite diverse. There are bombs in the presets of 4x250 kg and 4x500 kg, S5K rockets in containers (64 in total), and new to the game, S-3K armor-piercing high explosive rockets (28 at once), as well as huge S-24 rockets (4 rockets maximum). This aircraft was designed to inflict quite a lot of damage at high speed on one or two targets in one fire raid. Hit, climb, hide from anti-aircraft guns - hit again!
In general, the Su-7B is a very good aircraft for combined battles or ground attack missions at the high ranks of aviation game modes. It is not perfect, but has its own useful and distinctive role in the game. The Su-7B will appear in our hangars with the release of the next update of War Thunder: Starfighters very soon. See you there!
The War Thunder Team
Comments (193)
Soviet need more CAS in the next update, this thing is already obsoleted compare to US CAS lol.
The game's meta can't really bring-out one of this aircraft's greatest strengths: Fast mission turnaround. The Indians exploited it well in 1971.
Dude, it's 9.0 by the looks of things... This thing will be crushing tanks.
Awesome to see Russia get the Su-7. Hopefully it's a start to a nice line of CAS.
Yeah no not really , would had been awesome back in 1.8x , in 1.99 its just pathetic ...........
Russian CAS line will be neat but its just doesn't match the CAS US monsters. every single top tier US jet can provide some really nasty CAS.
Where is Mirage 2000?
are you the new dozer ?
You can probably find one in a French museum if you lost one?
Nice girl! Hope to see more birds soon :D
Also, is Mirage coming yes or no? :p
mattit108, https://warthunder.com/en/news/6728-development-mirage-iiic-an-illusive-figure-en
Oddly though not in the attacker line.
That's what I thought too!
It's still very different to things like the Su-6 and IL-10, IL-28 etc though. This is a fighter/bomber. The standard Su-7 platform is an interceptor, just like things such as the La-200. It fits well there IMO.
The best thing in this update is Bella Ciao
This is the worst addition to the game. Why not add Clear Sky - Bandit Radio as soundtrack for Russia ? I mean, how does a partisan song with modern instrumentation fit with ww2 fascist italian vehicles in background ?
ALIEN109, Its a game mate! No politics
Very good addition, but missing its AAMs and AGMs. Now give Su-17 )))))
I'm sure someone will expand on this, but this is not the correct model of aircraft for either of those. AGMs would be the BFT variant, and the AAMs are the A variant.
PandaMan0120, Blk*
YAY! A nice new ground attacker. But where is the Sea Vixen FAW. 2?
Tbf Britain is already getting quite a bit of love this patch, they will survive.
Last time I checked, it was still sitting in the deHaviland museum. There's also one at IWM Duxford and several other museums too :)
I'm wondering how an aircraft first flown in 1959 even has CCIP. It's simply an Su-7A / the first version converted to CAS because it was insufficient at air superiority, they only added pylons and it became the Su-7B. The list of avionics it has goes as: Izumrud ("Emerald") RP-2 radar, SRD-5M Baza-6M gun ranging radar, ASP-5NM/-5ND gunsight, PBK-1 bombing sight, ARK-10 ADF, Kremniy-2/-2M RHAWS (Radar Homing And Warning System) and SPO-2 Sirena-2 RWR. There is no mention of CCIP.
Go there : https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/486373-ussr-needs-better-cas/page/15/&tab=comments#comment-8538991 and you will learn !
PBK-1 bombing sight is enough to allow it do perform DTOS which is the same thing F-4E does on the devserver ( Gaijin wrongly calls it CCIP )
I'm wondering how an aircraft first flown in 1959 even has CCIP. It's simply an Su-7A / the first version converted to CAS because it was insufficient at air superiority, they only added pylons and it became the Su-7B. The list of avionics it has goes as: Izumrud ("Emerald") RP-2 radar, SRD-5M Baza-6M gun ranging radar, ASP-5NM/-5ND gunsight, PBK-1 bombing sight, ARK-10 ADF, Kremniy-2/-2M RHAWS (Radar Homing And Warning System) and SPO-2 Sirena-2 RWR. There is no mention of CCIP.
Go there : https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/486373-ussr-needs-better-cas/page/15/&tab=comments#comment-8538991 and you will learn !
PBK-1 bombing sight is enough to allow it do perfrorm DTOS which is the same thing F-4E does on the devserver ( Gaijin wrongly calls it CCIP )