I recommend checking out the other subjects Prop & Jet has kitted. Fortunately, their range is listed in some detail in English here on the International Resin Modellers Association website. However it does feature many useful images of the kits the company produces. Prop & Jet’s website does not give too much away, in English at least, as I could not get it to translate very well. It offers a range of very interesting kits, if you like rare Soviet subjects and prototypes. The company is based in Nalchik, capital the Russian Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. I am pleased to say that my first impressions of the review kit were very positive. Prop & Jet is a Russian company I was aware of in passing, but have little knowledge of, and had not previously seen any of their products in the resin. There may well have been others, but it seems fair to say that Prop & Jet’s kit fills an important gap for fans of Soviet prototypes and early jets. The only previous kits I am aware of in “The One True Scale” is a very early MPM vac-form, and a previous release in 2002 by Prop & Jet (earlier tooling). The Su-13 (Samolyet KT) was a proposal to re-engine the aircraft with Soviet copies of the Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet as well as to modify it for night fighting, but neither proposal was accepted. A modified version with different engines and a revised wing became the Su-11 (Samolyet KL), but this was did not enter production either. The Su-9 was slower than competing Soviet aircraft and it was cancelled as a result. The design was heavily influenced by captured German jet fighters and it was subsequently redesigned to use a Soviet copy of a German turbojet. The design began in 1944 and was intended to use Soviet-designed turbojet engines. The Sukhoi Su-9, or Samolyet K (Aircraft K), was an early jet fighter built in the Soviet Union shortly after World War II. Not to be confused with the later supersonic Su-9 "Fishpot" that first flew in 1956, this Su-9 dates from 10 years earlier. Revell's 1/72 Buccaneer is available online from
I highly recommend this kit, and encourage readers to check out Prop & Jets other offerings as well. It has very nice surface and interior detail, fine small parts, and its reinforced undercarriage is a nice touch. This is a very good kit indeed, with excellent quality parts, good decals and clear instructions. (I could only find one stockist with a clear system for ordering (ModelsUA), but have listed Linden Hill as they carry many of Prop & Jet’s products, and the IRMA as it lists prices but does not appear to have an obvious ordering mechanism).Įxcellent quality, nice detail, simple assembly the reinforced undercarriage is a real plus.
The two main variants were the Su-9B interceptor and the double seat Su-9U trainer aircraft. Production begun in 1959, in the year 1967 it was replaced by the Su-11. Because of the combat philosophy in this time, machine guns weren’t included and the only armament the Su-9 had were missiles. Because of not enough ground radars, the Su-9 had to have a radar with a high range, unlike the similar but smaller MiG-21 Fishbed, so that it’s electronic equipment was very extensive, even if the range is not very high. The Su-9 was designed to be an Interceptor aircraft and to be used against enemy bombers in the whole Soviet Union. Many design features are based on the Su-7B, to rationalize development. The Su-9 was developed from the test aircraft T-3, the prototype of the Su-9 was the T-43. That’s the reason why it received the NATO codename “Fishpot” (the MiG-21 has the NATO codename “Fishbed”).
The design of the Su-9 has many similarities with the MiG-21. The Sukhoi Su-9 was a single seat, Soviet fighter aircraft, that was developed in the 1950 as a Interceptor aircraft.
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