[sukhoi-30mki]

The Russians (& even the Chinese) have been offering aircraft with avionics based on MIL-STD 1533 bus,including the SU-30 & the newer Mig-29 series,making the carriage of those weapons you mentioned more of a political issue..India already has integrated some French & Israeli weaponry on it’s Russian aircraft like the SU-30 & Mig-21/29.

[Red6]

That was an example, and since the Russians themselves know that compatibility with Western systems has helped in spoiling many sales they attempted to mitigate this in their sales pitch. However, it’s BS. The radar needs to have certain capabilities to fully exploit an AMRAAM which they don't. You can put a plug on a plane that leads nowhere and their systems are generally incompatible with ours. You can NOT just mix and match things. There are aerodynamic, mounting, bus, sub systems on the aircraft, weights and balances......... that need considered. These systems on an aircraft communicate and feed information to one another. The information from a radar might be fed to a MPD and this device has to know what to do with certain information, see what I'm trying to say?