Remember my earlier postings about the Su-30MKM as the other aircraft slated for the Royal Malaysian Air Force MRCA programme together with the Super Hornet.
Well it seems that the MKM has another rival to fend off (a serious one) the KNAAPO built Su-35.
KNAAPO through its local agent has managed a pledge from the Defence Ministry to send a technical team to evaluate the Su-35, which lost the Brazil and South Korean FX programme.
The KNAAPO people claimed that their Su-35 twin seater is the true Super Flanker compared to the IAPO’S MKM.
Why such an eleventh hour attempt? Why was KNAAPO not in the running in the MRCA programme.
Well, the Su-35 was not ready last year when the MRCA programme was tendered and the Sukhoi OKB is apparently backing the KNAAPO people instead of the IAPO.
KNAAPO, in an interview to be published in a local paper on December 1 claimed that the MKI version of the Su-30 (from which the MKM) is a derivative is not ready and fully intergrated yet and their Su-35 is much better.
KNAAPO people are talking about 30 planes much more than the IAPO has said before 12 to 18……
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November 30, 2002 at 3:45 pm