Cucumber Khan wrote:medo wrote:Great news for both Russia and Iran. Interesting in this article is, that first Iranian crews are already trained and that they will send another group of crews for trainings. I think this could mean, that Iran could quite quickly receive their first Su-30 fighters, so they will be most probably Su-30MK2 from KNAAPO as Irkut is full with production for RuAF and they will also have to produce Su-30SM for Kazakhstan and Belarus. KNAAPO have free production line for Su-30MK2 as they will finish order for Vietnam as well as for RuAF.
Think these "crews" are actually S-300 crews, not Su-30s...
OK, it make more sense. I was too quick in reading. Anyway, I think Su-30MK2 could still well serve in IRIAF, specially if it get more powerful engines of AL-31FN series and N001VEP with Pero antenna radar. Even with original N001VEP it would be good F-14A replacement as they have quite similar capabilities to detect bombers and similar missiles, if it is equipped with R-27EA, which is quite similar to AIM-54.