Sukhoi Su-33 it off the Indian carriers, a constraint not shared by the smaller MiG-29K. On 15 November 2016, Sukhoi Su-33 fighter jets began conducting combat flights over Syria from "Admiral Kuznetsov"s flight deck in the ongoing Syrian civil war. On 5 December 2016, it was reported that a Su-33 had crashed into the Mediterranean Sea after it failed to land on the carrier for a second time due to an arrestor cable problem. Sukhoi Su-33 The Sukhoi Su-33 (-33; NATO reporting name: "Flanker-D") is an all-weather carrier-based twin-engine air superiority fighter designed by Sukhoi and manufactured by Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association,
Sukhoi system, landing braking parachute, catapult ejection seat with telescopic trolley, and a jettisonable nose with a pressurized cockpit. From 1949, Sukhoi fell out of Stalin's favor and in a government resolution, the Sukhoi Design Bureau was scrapped, and Sukhoi was forced to return to work under Andrei Tupolev, this time as Deputy Chief Designer. In 1953, the year of Stalin's death, he was permitted to re-establish his own Sukhoi Design Bureau, set up with new production facilities. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, each of the multitude of bureaus and factories producing Sukhoi components was privatized independently. In the