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According to Bedretdinov, in August 1971 the VVS demanded that speed be 1200km/h carrying 4 external B-8 rocket pods, which actually caused Sukhoi to suspend work on T-8 for while (and looked at Su-15 & Su-17 derivatives). Sukhoi thought 900km/h was adequate for the mission. 1200km/h is just about Mach 1. The VVS were somewhat obsessed with the Jaguar, which gave high subsonic speed at low level and Mach 1.6 at altitude.Mikoyan's MiG-21LSh project fully met the VVS requirements, which the VVS used to try and leverage Sukhoi, but in the end a compromise was agreed on 1000km/h.
According to Bedretdinov, in August 1971 the VVS demanded that speed be 1200km/h carrying 4 external B-8 rocket pods, which actually caused Sukhoi to suspend work on T-8 for while (and looked at Su-15 & Su-17 derivatives). Sukhoi thought 900km/h was adequate for the mission. 1200km/h is just about Mach 1. The VVS were somewhat obsessed with the Jaguar, which gave high subsonic speed at low level and Mach 1.6 at altitude.
Mikoyan's MiG-21LSh project fully met the VVS requirements, which the VVS used to try and leverage Sukhoi, but in the end a compromise was agreed on 1000km/h.
