Sukhoi T-49 Sukhoi T-49 The Sukhoi T-49 was a prototype Soviet fighter aircraft. The Sukhoi T-49 is a modernized version of the Sukhoi Su-11 with new radar and modified armament. The project was officially launched on August 6, 1957, the maiden flight of the T-49 prototype took place, after various rolling tests in October 1959, in January 1960. In the development of the T-49, the delta wing, the tail and the cigar-shaped hull were taken over by the Su-11. A key differentiator to the predecessor model is the extended nose of the aircraft to accommodate the more powerful radar. Since this was
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