The Su-24 Bomber: A Tale of Innovation and Survival

Christian Baghai
3 min readApr 30, 2024

In the annals of aviation history, few stories are as remarkable as that of the Su-24 bomber and its crew’s survival in the face of adversity. The year was 1975, a time when the Cold War was at its zenith, and the race for aerial supremacy was fierce. It was then that Pavel Sukhoi, a name synonymous with Soviet aeronautical engineering, bestowed gold watches upon two crew members of an Su-24 bomber…

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