HMH Publications 023 Aircraft in Detail: Sukhoi Su-22 Fitter (140 pages, English) [Duke Hawkins]

The Fitter is one of the few fighter jets that was equipped with variable sweep-wings - the Su-22 is the export version of the Russian Su-17 and was in use with air forces of mainly eastern European countries, like Poland, East-Germany, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic.
The Fitter is one of the few fighter jets that was equipped with variable sweep-wings - the Su-22 is the export version of the Russian Su-17 and was in use with air forces of mainly eastern European countries, like Poland, East-Germany, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic. For its days, the Fitter was a very complex aircraft, which shows in the many details in this book. The cockpit section of this book is 16 pages, the maintenance one counts 24 pages ! From our Polish friends, we got lot of spectacular air-to-air photos that feature in this book.