The Su-34, although from the "Flanker" family is distinguished from all its relatives. He is in practice a very modified Su-27, having seen changed his profile, benefits and even their main function as combat aircraft. Although it was designed with the goal of replacing more than 500 fighter-bombers Su-24, Su-34 has also been adapted in order to allow bombing missions over the sea against naval forces. The basic structure of the Su-27 was flexible enough to allow it to be modified so that it could serve as a way of balancing the scales at sea, before the clear domain of naval NATO allies. The Su-34 operates on land, with considerable autonomy and capacity to carry anti-ship missiles, it can be used to attack groups of U.S. aircraft carriers that are at a distance of up to 1.100 km of land.