A modern combat aircraft at the Sukhoi Design Bureau is designed not by dozens or even hundreds of specialists, and each of them is responsible for several tasks at once. Tatyana Makovskaya, Deputy Head of the Mathematical Modeling Department, spoke about the details of the bureau's "inner workings".
According to her, this approach allows transforming the most complex project into a manageable system where the area of responsibility is distributed among specialists.
The scale of the design approach surprised me, that for each system there is a responsible department, which includes many people, and literally for each button there is an employee who is responsible for its design and operation.
The Sukhoi Bureau is the leading developer of tactical aviation in Russia. The Design Bureau is working on the Su-57, Su-75, Su-34, Su-35S, and other fighter jet projects. Information recently emerged about plans to create a 6th-generation fighter jet.
Earlier, Nikolay Chikunov, a 1st category design engineer at the A.I. Mikoyan Design Bureau, explained to "Pervy Tekhnichesky" the difference in the approaches of the two schools.