Russia’s Su-30SM Upgrade plans likely to breathe in new life into IAF’s Su-30MKI fighter jet

Source:-Russia’s Su-30SM Upgrade plans likely to breathe in new life into IAF’s Su-30MKI fighter jet

IAF’s much delayed modernizing plans for its Su-30MKI fleet standardized with the generation 4++ Su-35 fighter and also prolong its service life will get the much-needed boost after Indian Defense Ministry restarted Deep upgrade talks of the fleet with Russia’s Defense Ministry, after Russia shared its road map to upgrade its Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jet based on baseline IAF’s Su-30MKI with India.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has decided to Heavily upgrade it’s Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jet in line with its Su-35 fighter so has to cut the operating cost of this aircraft by standardizing the airborne weapon systems, onboard equipment and change of engine to AL-41F-1S engines from current AL-31FP engine to bring fleet similarity with Su-35 fleet.

Su-30SM upgraded jets will have the same layout of the onboard radio-electronic equipment as seen in Su-35 fleet, Su-30SM will also get new onboard equipment borrowed from Su-35 which will increase the range of detecting and identifying air targets capabilities of the Su-30SM. Change of current AL-31FP engine to AL-41F-1S engines will also see a jump of 19kN thrust with afterburners further improving multirole super maneuverability of the Su-30SM aircraft.

IAF to had its share of complaints regarding AL-31FP engines manufactured by State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) but engine swap will mean additional cost for India which will be much more than of Russia since IAF has a larger fleet of AL-31FP engine powered Su-30MKI fleet then Russian Su-30SM fleet which is relatively still small.

Indian officials will discuss the Road map of the Su-30SM Upgrade with their Russian counterparts in the Defense Ministry and will see how it can be implemented into India’s IAF’s Su-30MKI upgrade plans.

The Possible Upgrades to the MKI is adding more effective Multi role, like Multiple ejector Rack, AESA radar, more powerful EW and Jamming systems, along with High performance Engines,

The missiles with a range around 300 kms would be in addition to the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles which would be carried by around 50 aircraft of the force.The same also integrating Anti armour missiles into Su 30 MKI to perform CAS missions, for doing anti armour and CAS missions, the fighter comes to very low, and need a visual identification before striking,

The aircraft would also have the highly-advanced Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar along with the latest avionics systems.

Super Sukhoi 30MKI Features

1.Improved Air-frame with 6000 flying hrs same as SU35-S

2.Chassis wheels braking system

3.Upgraded AL-31F production engines with 5th gen capabilities

4.Forward-facing NIIP N011M Bars

5.Fly by wire (FBW) with quadruple redundancy

6.Israeli Elbit SU 967 head-up display along with bi-cubic phase conjugated holographic displays & Seven liquid crystal multi-function displays.

7.Modern digital weapons control system as well as more advanced anti-jamming features.

8.Israeli-made LITENING targeting pod

9.Integration with Bhramhos & Astra

10.AESA Radar

With these features , Super Sukhoi 30-MKI will nearly out-par Su35 and will come close to T50 , the 5th gen fighter of Russia . With this upgrade , our mighty fighter will become one of the top deadly machines in the world and in Asian skies.

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