Flanker
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Flanker may refer to:
- The NATO reporting nameNATO reporting nameNATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...
for the Sukhoi Su-27Sukhoi Su-27The Sukhoi Su-27 is a twin-engine supermanoeuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large United States fourth generation fighters, with range, heavy armament, sophisticated avionics and high manoeuvrability...
and derivatives:- Flanker-A: Sukhoi T-10Sukhoi Su-27The Sukhoi Su-27 is a twin-engine supermanoeuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large United States fourth generation fighters, with range, heavy armament, sophisticated avionics and high manoeuvrability...
(Su-27 prototype) - Flanker-B: Sukhoi Su-27Sukhoi Su-27The Sukhoi Su-27 is a twin-engine supermanoeuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large United States fourth generation fighters, with range, heavy armament, sophisticated avionics and high manoeuvrability...
- Flanker-C: Sukhoi Su-30Sukhoi Su-30The Sukhoi Su-30 is a twin-engine, two-seat military aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multirole fighter for all-weather, air-to-air and air-to-surface deep interdiction missions.The Su-30 started out as an internal development project in the Sukhoi Su-27 family...
(Su-27UB) - Flanker-D: Sukhoi Su-33Sukhoi Su-33The Sukhoi Su-33 is an all-weather carrier-based air defence fighter designed by Sukhoi and manufactured by KnAAPO. It is a derivative of the Su-27 "Flanker" and was initially known as the Su-27K. The aircraft was first used in operations in 1995, aboard the carrier Admiral Kuznetsov...
(Su-27K) - Flanker-E variant 1: Sukhoi Su-35Sukhoi Su-35The Sukhoi Su-35 is a single-seat, twin-engined supermaneuverability multirole fighter. It is a derivative of the Su-27 'Flanker', and was initially known as the Su-27M. More than a dozen of these were built with some used by the Russian Knights aerobatic demonstration team...
(Su-27M) - Flanker-E variant 2: Sukhoi Su-37Sukhoi Su-37The Sukhoi Su-37 is an experimental single-seat, supermaneuverable multirole jet fighter, designed by Sukhoi. A further development of the original Su-27 'Flanker', it was modified from the first-generation Su-35 prototypes...
- Flanker-F variant 1: Sukhoi Su-30 (Su-27PU), Su-30K
- Flanker-F variant 2: Sukhoi Su-30M
- Flanker-G: Sukhoi Su-30MKKSukhoi Su-30MKKThe Sukhoi Su-30MKK is a modification of the Su-27 SK manufactured since 1999 by KnAAPO and Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. It is considered an upgraded version of Sukhoi Su-30. It was jointly developed by Russia and China, similar to the Su-30MKI. It is a heavy class, all-weather, long-range...
- Flanker-H: Sukhoi Su-30MKI
- Flanker-A: Sukhoi T-10
- Su-27 Flanker, a computer game modeling the Sukhoi Su-27
- Flanker (rugby union)Flanker (rugby union)A flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union. Flankers play in the forwards, and are generally classified as either blindside, or openside flankers; numbers six and seven respectively. The name comes from their position in a scrum in which they flank each set of forwards...
: a position in rugby union (not found in rugby league); - Wide receiverWide receiverA wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...
: a position in American football. - A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body, sometimes found in a castleCastleA castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
. - Flanker (Transformers)
- The Eriksen flanker taskEriksen flanker taskThis term refers to a group of response inhibition tests used in cognitive psychology to assess the ability to supress responses that are inappropriate in a particular context. In the flanker paradigm, a directional response is made to a central target stimulus...
, a psychological test procedure