If you've spent any amount of time reading about fighter jets or watching the news coming out of the current wars in Ukraine or Syria, you've likely come across the names of several Soviet-era or otherwise Russian aircraft. MiGs and Tupolevs are fairly common in the sky wherever modern aircraft are fighting. Those aircraft are denoted by the prefixes "MiG" and "Tu," respectively. Another prefix, "Su," pops up occasionally as well. "Su" stands for "Sukhoi," another major Russian aircraft manufacturer. Advertisement Sukhoi is named after Pavel Sukhoi, an aircraft designer. The company itself started in 1939, designing aircraft to fight...