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Russia and India started talks about acquiring the new fighter jet in 1994. Sukhoi Design Bureau started working on an upgrade of Su30 a year later which resulted in Su-30MK Modernizirovannyi Kommercheskiy (Modernised Commercial). On 30 November 1996, Russian state company Rosoboronexport and Indian Defence Ministry has signed a contract for development and production of eight Su-30Ks and 32 Su-30MKIs for the Indian Air Force. The eight Su-30Ks of the order were delivered at Lohegaon Air Force Base in India till July 1997. On 28 December 2000 Russia & India signed a contract for $3 billion for license production of 140 Su-30MKI fighters at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited production plant in Nashik. In 2002–2004, in accordance with the 1996 contract, 32 Su-30MKIs were built in Irkutsk Aviation Plant for India & from 2004 onward, production is carried by HAL at Nashik.
In 2007 India returned Russia 18 Su-30K & swapped them for 18 Su-30MKI fighters. Here India changed the entire blood line of the Su-30 only exporting kits of Su30 from Russia & made an entirely new fighter with multiple systems integrated into the Jet from of the shelf western technology.
Mean while 12 out of 18 returned Indian Su-30K were sold by Russia to Angola. Russia upgraded the Angola Air force Su30K to Su30SM standards. As part of a $1 billion deal that also includes other equipment and maintenance services for Angola which was ordered on 16 October 2013. Angola received first two aircraft in September 2017, then 4 more in 2018 & by April 2019 entire order of Angola Airforce was completed.
February 2020 image of Angolan Su30K parked at Mukanka Airbase, Lubango, Angola.
Today the Angola Air force is flying the India rejected Su30K which were upgraded to SM standards by Russia in a jolly colorful African camouflage as whole integrated package & the jet is a formidable force defending Angola.
Where as India developed the Su30 kits it bought from Russia to it's own thinking which include a customized version of the Israeli Elbit Su 967 head-up display (HUD). The forward facing Russian NIIP N011M Bars (Panther) is a powerful integrated passive electronically scanned array radar. The N011M is a digital multi-mode dual frequency band radar. It also carries the Israeli AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING targeting pod is an advanced precision targeting pod system. The Indian Su30MKI is fitted with a satellite navigation system (A-737 GPS compatible), which permits it to make flights in all weather, day and night. The navigation complex includes the high accuracy SAGEM Sigma-95 integrated global positioning system and ring laser gyroscope inertial navigation system which came from French company. Indian Su-30MKI has electronic counter-measure systems. The RWR system is of Indian design, developed by India's DRDO, called Tarang. It also has a Elta EL/M-8222 a self-protection jammer developed by Israel Aircraft Industries is the MKI's standard EW pod, which the Israeli Air Force uses on its F-15s. The ELTA El/M-8222 Self Protection Pod is a power-managed jammer, air-cooled system with an ESM receiver integrated into the pod. The pod contains an antenna on the forward and aft ends, which receive the hostile RF signal and after processing deliver the appropriate response.
Reading all the systems that India has place in it's Su30Mki you must be thinking that India has done a great job & their decision was good regarding the development of their own blood line of Su30 but here the case is totally different. The problem is none of the Indian installed systems on the Su30MKI talk to each other. For example the Israeli Jammer on Indian Su30MKI will also jam the the Radar of it's own Jet cause both Russia & Israel being on the opposite side of the international collation refuse to provide India with source codes to solve this problem. The french navigation is not talking to the Russian Radar in the Jet & Israeli HUD is also doing the same. The thing which India forgot was that no one in the world will compromise their own national security for Indian national security. Thus India was force to add multiple displays for every system which increased the Job of the pilot flying the jet & also increased the weight of Indian Su30MKI.
So Angola a poor African nation today enjoys as a formidable weapon what India rejected & till date India is stuck in the problem solving issue with it's own designed & upgrades of the same jet. The story of 2 blood lined of Su30.
In 2007 India returned Russia 18 Su-30K & swapped them for 18 Su-30MKI fighters. Here India changed the entire blood line of the Su-30 only exporting kits of Su30 from Russia & made an entirely new fighter with multiple systems integrated into the Jet from of the shelf western technology.
Mean while 12 out of 18 returned Indian Su-30K were sold by Russia to Angola. Russia upgraded the Angola Air force Su30K to Su30SM standards. As part of a $1 billion deal that also includes other equipment and maintenance services for Angola which was ordered on 16 October 2013. Angola received first two aircraft in September 2017, then 4 more in 2018 & by April 2019 entire order of Angola Airforce was completed.
February 2020 image of Angolan Su30K parked at Mukanka Airbase, Lubango, Angola.
Today the Angola Air force is flying the India rejected Su30K which were upgraded to SM standards by Russia in a jolly colorful African camouflage as whole integrated package & the jet is a formidable force defending Angola.
Where as India developed the Su30 kits it bought from Russia to it's own thinking which include a customized version of the Israeli Elbit Su 967 head-up display (HUD). The forward facing Russian NIIP N011M Bars (Panther) is a powerful integrated passive electronically scanned array radar. The N011M is a digital multi-mode dual frequency band radar. It also carries the Israeli AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING targeting pod is an advanced precision targeting pod system. The Indian Su30MKI is fitted with a satellite navigation system (A-737 GPS compatible), which permits it to make flights in all weather, day and night. The navigation complex includes the high accuracy SAGEM Sigma-95 integrated global positioning system and ring laser gyroscope inertial navigation system which came from French company. Indian Su-30MKI has electronic counter-measure systems. The RWR system is of Indian design, developed by India's DRDO, called Tarang. It also has a Elta EL/M-8222 a self-protection jammer developed by Israel Aircraft Industries is the MKI's standard EW pod, which the Israeli Air Force uses on its F-15s. The ELTA El/M-8222 Self Protection Pod is a power-managed jammer, air-cooled system with an ESM receiver integrated into the pod. The pod contains an antenna on the forward and aft ends, which receive the hostile RF signal and after processing deliver the appropriate response.
Reading all the systems that India has place in it's Su30Mki you must be thinking that India has done a great job & their decision was good regarding the development of their own blood line of Su30 but here the case is totally different. The problem is none of the Indian installed systems on the Su30MKI talk to each other. For example the Israeli Jammer on Indian Su30MKI will also jam the the Radar of it's own Jet cause both Russia & Israel being on the opposite side of the international collation refuse to provide India with source codes to solve this problem. The french navigation is not talking to the Russian Radar in the Jet & Israeli HUD is also doing the same. The thing which India forgot was that no one in the world will compromise their own national security for Indian national security. Thus India was force to add multiple displays for every system which increased the Job of the pilot flying the jet & also increased the weight of Indian Su30MKI.
So Angola a poor African nation today enjoys as a formidable weapon what India rejected & till date India is stuck in the problem solving issue with it's own designed & upgrades of the same jet. The story of 2 blood lined of Su30.
