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However, the Russian Defence Ministry was impressed with the export Su-30MKI's performance envelope and ordered a local version of the same aircraft for their own use, called the Su-30SM, which is the third adaptation of the MKI after the Malaysian Su-30MKM and the Algerian MKA. A total of 60 Su-30SM fighters, under two contracts signed in ...
Su-30SM: Ukrainian forces attacked the Russian Air force base in Millerovo, destroying at least one Su-30SM on the ground with Tochka missiles. [474] 27 February Su-34: Registration number RF-81259, tail number Red 05 was shot down near Buzova airfield. [475] [476] 1 March Su-34: Registration number RF-81251, tail number Red 31, was lost near ...
At about 17:30 local time on 23 October 2022, a Su-30 crashed in the city of Irkutsk in eastern Russia. [2] The Su-30SM aircraft was performing a test flight when it fell on a wooden two-story residential building in 2nd Sovetsky Lane. [3] Both the pilots were killed. The residents of the house were not hurt as they were not home. [4] [5]
In 2016, Su-30MKM successfully dropped a GBU-12 Paveway laser-guided bomb in a firing exercise. An aircraft registered number M52-08 successfully dropped the bombs at Kota Belud firing range in Sabah on 27 November 2016. [6] This makes it the first Russian-made Sukhoi combat aircraft compatible with the weapon.
The Sukhoi Su-30MKI [a] (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H) [4] is a two-seater, twinjet multirole air superiority fighter developed by Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). A variant of the Sukhoi Su-30, it is a heavy, all-weather, long-range ...
At least two Su-27 have been lost in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. [10] [11] [12] Sukhoi Su-30 Russia: Jet: Multirole: 2012: 110+ 110+ 91 Su-30SM and 19 Su-30M2 in service as of 2022 [1] [4] [13] and new deliveries were conducted in late 2023 and mid 2024. [14] As of 28 May 2024 at least 11 Su-30SM have been lost in the Russian Invasion of ...
A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash.. On ...
MKK: strike-fighter aircraft Chinese variant of Su-30 134 Su-30МK: 1 July 1997 2000, December 2000–present - Su-30MKI: Flanker H air superiority fighter