| Name |
Explanation |
Examples |
Pictures |
|---|
| S |
Stays for Sukhoj prototypes with swept wing
Strelovidnoe krylo, 'Strelka' (The Arrow) |
S-1, S-2 |
- |
| Samoliot |
Russian word for self-flying machine (early years).
Later is used for airplane only (not for helicopters) |
'Samoliot' by E.P.Sverchkov and
by A.F.Mozhajskij |
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| SAM |
Initials of A. S.Moskalev Design Bureau |
SAM-6, SAM-7, SAM-13 |
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| SAR |
Search And Rescue
Example: SAR aircraft, SAR mission |
| SB |
High speed bomber
Skorostnoj Bombardirovschik |
SB |
 |
| SDB |
High speed daytime bomber
Skorostnoj Dnevnoj Bombardirovschik |
SDB |
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| SFR |
High speed photo-recce
Skorostnoj Foto Razvedchik |
SFR |
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| SG |
Sport racer
Sportivno-Gonochnyj |
SG-1 |
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| Sh |
Low level attacker
Shtormovik |
BSh-2, ShB |
- |
| Sh |
V.B.Shavrov initial |
Sh-1, Sh-2,
Sh-5 |
 |
| ShB |
Armored attacker
Shtormovik Bronirovannij |
ShB |
- |
| Sche |
Initials of Scherbakov Design Bureau |
| Sha |
Initials of Shavrov Design Bureau |
ShA-2 |
- |
| Sch |
Initials of Schetinin Factory; |
Sch-3 |
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| ShON |
Special Role Attacker
Shturmovik Osobogo Naznachenija |
ShON |
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| ShR |
Attack fighter-recce
Shtormowik-Razwedchik |
| SK |
High speed aircraft
Skorostnoj |
SK-1, SK-2 |
- |
| SKB |
Students' Design Bureau
Studencheskoe Konstructorskoe Buro |
| SKhA |
Agricultural Aviation
Selsko-Khoziajstvennaja Aviatsia |
| SibNIA |
Siberian Scientific Institute of Aviation
Sibirskij Nauchnij Institut Aviatsii |
| SKh |
Agricultural
Selsko-Khozajstvennij |
SKh |
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| SKO |
Special Designs Division
Spetsialnyj Konstructorskij Otdel |
| SPB |
Fast dive bomber
Skorostnoj Pikiruuschij Bombardirovschik |
SPB |
 |
| SPB |
Composite dive bomber
Sostavnoj Pikiruuschij Bombardirovschik" |
see SPB, I-16 and
Zveno-6 Pages; |
 |
| SNK |
Consul of People Commissars
Sovet Narodnih Komissarov"
It did not fly for a while, but at least was trying. And definitely had an impact on Russian Aviation History. So
it is here. |
- |
- |
| SON |
Aircraft for Special Purposes
Samoliot Osobogo Naznachenija |
see GASN aircraft page - also sounds weird, does not it? |
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| SOS |
Section for Experimental Construction
Sector Opytnogo Stroitelstva |
- |
- |
| STO |
Special Technical Division
Spetsialnij Tekhnicheskij Otdel
Also means 'Hundred' in Russian; |
'100', '102',
'103' etc. |
- |
| StrelBom |
Serpukhov School of Gunnery and Bombardment
Shkola Strelbi i Bombometanija |
- |
- |
| SVB |
Aircraft for the air combat
Samoliot Vozdushnogo Boya |
SVB |
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| SVVP |
VTOL aircraft
Samoliot Vertikalnogo Vzleta i Posadki |
Kor.SVVP-70 |
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| Su |
Initials of Sukhoj Design Bureau |
Su-2, Su-35 |
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| SUVP |
Samoliot UkrVozdukhPuti |
SUVP |
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| SUMBR-2 |
Strelkovaja Ustanovka dlia MBR-2
Gun installation for MBR-2 |
MBR-2 |
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