Posted on 08/24/2007 9:20:31 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
A handful of F-16s(around 30) along with a 100 Mirage-3/5s & almost 300+ Chinese Q-5,F-6 & F-7 fighters.
A ratio which will remain the same when they get 30 more F-16s along with 200 more Chinese jets.
So, in this deal, India doesn’t co-build?
I think we should buy the airframes for the Navy, then put our engines, flight controls and avionics in them. Better range and more performance potential than the Super Hornets.
Yes,it does-the contract was for building around 140 SU-30MKIs in India-a few have been built already.The total is for 40 SU-30K(first batch)+10(orig. for Indonesia)+140+40(current deal).Ever since the SU-30MKI entered service in 2004,the Russians allowed India to return the SU-30K variants in exchange for newly built MKIs.
Actually no, India is not manufacturing any parts of the aircraft. They are assembling knock down kits delivered from Russia.
Anyways, the Su-30MKK is no longer the premier aircraft for the PLAAF, it is now the J-11B, which is a locally developed variant of the Su-27 actually manufactured in China.
Another one of the Chinese fakes that your countrymen are famous for no doubt. We’ll see how well your reverse engineered fakes fly. Won’t be surprised if you put lead paint and call it “Stealth”...sure is stealth in a different way. Wont even be surprised if it just disintegrates and falls of the sky. Thanks China!! The IAF will definitely kick PLAAF a$$ without having to fire a missile!
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