Pak national; i admire you paitriotic stance
but give me a break
THE INDIAN FIGHTER looks 20 years later in design just looking at the pictures.
AND costs 4 times the price
The SU-30 costs India 4 times the price, it doesn't cost Russia nearly that much. Russia also has to get back it's development costs(which are huge), not just the unit manufacturing costs, as well as large profit margins. I'm sure we'll be willing to sell the JF-17 to India for four times the price of an SU-30, if it helps the Indians feel good(at that price, it will help us feel very good as well).
And btw, the "4 times the price" is a little ridiculous. The Russians are in the habit of regularly gouging up the prices for Indians, they sold India many SU-30s for less than $50 million. Now they sell the same aircraft for close to $100 million. Indian officials have repeatedly complained at Russian blackmailing over prices of everything from aircraft to spares, to even aircraft carriers.
By your logic, now that the Russians are making India pay orders of magnitude more for the Kiev-class carrier, is it suddenly going to perform much better simply because Russians are having their pockets lined with $$$? The Russians built a true heavy-class aircraft carrier to replace the Kiev class(their new Kuznetsov-class, most modern Soviet aircraft carrier), in order to compete with modern western carriers. Of the two Kuznetsov-class carriers that were built, Russia itself operates one and China got the other, and China got it for much, much cheaper than the Kiev-class India got. Does that mean China's carrier is somehow not better than India's - the Kuznetsov-class is actually a 70,000 ton carrier, same class as European carriers. Kiev-class is around half that, at 40,000 tons. Just because the Russians are blackmailing with the price, does not make it more.
So logically, the price you pay is a poor indicator for the performance you'd get, we get JF-17s are a bare-minimum price, even the Research&Development costs aren't factored in because we've been an equal partner funding this project from the beginning. And while the JF-17 is not a heavy-fighter like the SU-30, that means the SU-30 has a greater range and payload. Both aircraft have modern avionics suites, if you look at some things like missile seeker performance, the SD-10B missiles are a very recent development(Pakistan actually took priority shipment even before the PLA-AF got the -B variant), much more modern than the R-77 missiles India has been operating since the 90's.
Also, Russia's pace of development is much slower than China's, even the west is alarmed at China's pace of development. They have the fastest-growing aeronautics industry on the planet with the booming economy, while Russia has significant funding problems.
Both are planned to get AESA radars, neither currently have them. India has a PESA design, while the JF-17's KLJ-7 is similar to F-16's Pulse-Doppler design; the radar offers superior performance over the F-16's design, and Pakistan was originally planning on going with Selex-Galileo radars on the JF-17(they make radars for the Eurofighter and the Gripen - we operate their radars on our F-7 fleet), but the KLJ-7 outperformed Selex-Galileo's offerings in this midrange category.
So the point again is, SU-30 would not have a very easy time with the JF-17. After the Mumbai drama SU-30s crossed the border but F-16s locked onto them and they had to retreat. The SU-30's radar was unable to detect the F-16s until the F-16s had already achieved missile-lock(Gen. Kiyani famously showed pics from the cockpit to visiting US officials back then). So Pakistan has EW/ECW tech not publically known, our Block-52 hadn't even arrived and Block-15s hadn't been modernized yet.
