On January 17, 1970 Su-24 fighter jet made the first flight. It became the first Soviet attack aircraft able to cruise at supersonic speeds at low altitude. It remains in service until now and expected to be commissioned in 2020. Su-24 and other Sukhoi family fighters - in photo gallery by TASS.
Sukhoi family fighter: 45 years in service
45 years ago Su-24 made its first flight, on January 17
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Su-9 fighter, 1977
© Fotokhronika TASS/Oleg Porokhovnikov Pilots near Su-15 fighter, supersonic interceptor developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s to replace Su-11 and Su-9
© Fotokhronika TASS/Oleg Porokhovnikov Crew team of Su-17 during an emergency training, 1985
© Fotokhronika TASS/Anatoliy Rukhadze Two Polish Air Force Su-22 jets at 2014 Royal International Air Tattoo in Gloucestershire, Great Britain
© ITAR-TASS/Marina Lystseva Su-24 supersonic all-weather attack aircrafts
© TASS/Marina Lystseva Su-34 fighter jet at an airfield in Novosibirsk
© ITAR-TASS/Marina Lystseva Su-25SM fighter jets and crew members from Russia’s Eastern Military District air force unit at the Knevichi aerodrome
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk Chinese Su-27 Flanker fighter, 2007
© AP Photo/Department of Defense, Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen Russian aerobatic team Russian Knights (Russkiye Vityazi) fly their Sukhoi SU-27 jet fighters during a local airshow in Pushkin military airport outside St.Petersburg, Russia, 2012
© AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky Su-30SM fighter jet before training flight at the air base of Eastern Military District
© ITAR-TASS/Evgeniy Epanchintsev Su-33 multirole fighter jet approaching the deck of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in the Barents Sea, 2010
© ITAR-TASS/Lev Fedoseyev Su-33 naval fighter jet on display at the MAKS-2007, the International Aviation and Space Show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Marina Lystseva Su-35 and Su-27 jets at the runway during the MAKS-2009 air show
© AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev