In 2015 Myanmar have order JF-17 from Pakistan, but that was not enough, and Myanmar have decided to order six Su-30SME from Russia in 2018. The first two Su-30SME was arriving to Myanmar in march 2022 according to some sources, but only few days ago we have chance to see a first photos of Myanmar […]
In late 1999 a $1.85 billion contract was signed by Chinese and Russian military leaders to purchase 38 Su-30MKK fighter bombers for PLAAF(People’s Liberation Army Air Force), with the first 10 delivered by KNAAPO on December 20, 2000, and the second 10 delivered on August 21, 2001 (S/N 62x0x). The rest of the batch were delivered by the […]
India and Russia are in talks to modernize the Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters currently in service with the Indian Air Force (IAF), said Sergei Kornev, the head of the delegation of Russia’s state arms seller Rosoboronexport. Kornev, who was speaking on the sidelines of the Aero India 2021 in India’s southern Indian city of Bengaluru […]
Last prototype from T10 program was T10-45, build in 1988. And that last was converted to LMK-2405 with digital control system. The plane was previously used in 1991 in T10M project as experimental aircraft with right side control joystick into cockpit. Participant in many air shows in Russia. From 1997 this aircraft have new number […]
Today, 22.07.2020, we have first new photos of Su-35S for Egyptian Air Force. Russia and Egypt were signed contract in late 2018, and that contract revealed in 2019. Contract was saying that Egypt is order 24 Su-35S for price around 2 billion dollars. For now we have 5 Su-35S on this photos, numbers 9210, 9211, […]
The maneuver that shock world in Paris Air Show in 1989. Second name for this maneuver is Pugachev’s Cobra. Soviet test pilot Viktor Pugachev (8 August 1948) did for the first time this maneuver in public, but he did not “invent” this maneuver first. First who did this maneuver in proper way was another Soviet […]
Armenia demonstrated on Friday, 27.12.2019 for the first time four Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jets which it has purchased from Russia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan and other Armenian officials watched at an airbase in Gyumri their test flights carried out by Russian pilots. Pashinyan and Tonoyan then greeted the pilots and sat […]
The two-seater Su-30SM two-seater fighter jet was created as a result of the radical modernization of the Su-30MK export aircraft and the aircraft being exported to India under the Su-30MKI designation, but adapted for the needs of the Russian Air Force on this occasion. In particular, the Russian Su-30SM has improved the aircraft’s radar, radio […]
After the retirement of their Su-27/UB fleet in december 2012, Belarus was searching to replace those fighters. They found solution in new Russian Su-30SM. The Belarusian Air Force has begun to receive its first Su-30SM Flanker twin engine heavyweight fighters from Russia – with a dozen ordered to form the elite of the country’s fleet. […]
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Ukraine gained its independence, it inherited some 1500 combat aircraft and in March 1992 the Ukrainian Air Force was established. The most up-to-date fighter among the inherited aircraft was the Su-27, which remains the main fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force today. The red star has […]
Su-27 Flanker Family 