OK, I saw the whole movie and I guess it is the most recent one, the “48”

Ken: Yes, Su-27KUB was in Zhukovsky only for a half day (Wednesday, if I remember), specially for Chinese.

fightingirish: No, it is not my picture. I make colour ones 🙂

PLA-MKII: Thanks! By the way, my name is Butowski. Oh, these Polish names… MiG “E”. Actual designation is “project E-xxx (number)”, sorry, I can’t tell more. Status — still project, all depends on politics.

martinez: unfortunately, I missed these nozzles 🙁

Ken, again: Aerobatics Festival & Flying Legends. It will be joined with land forces’ arms (IDELF) exhibition (2-6 August), I hope also for some aviation presentation — I don’t believe Sukhoi and other will miss the possibility to display their production.

An now about AL-31F upgrades.
In fact, Salyut changed the offer recently: 99M2 has been replaced by 99SM (LPC altered, which was not planned earlier). See:

Nominally, Soviet fighter regiment (polk) had three squadrons (eskadrilya), each of three flights (zveno), each of four aircraft = 36 single-seat fighters plus two trainers for each squadron == 42 aircraft. Actually, of course, numbers did vary.

o, guys… Google, google..

http://www.khai.edu/niipfm/english/slm32-en.htm

http://www.khai.edu/niipfm/english/index-en-fs.htm

http://www.khai.edu/niipfm/english/index-en-fs.htm

S-32 models in Kharkiv’s NII PFM institute

Another view before being Photoshopped

Back to Su-30 weights

Back to Su-30MKI’s weights:

Empty weight is approx 18-18.5 tons

Nominal T/O weight is 24.9 tons. Ususally in Russia, nominal weight means empty weight plus some standard fuel (5270 kg in this case), standard missile load for AA mission (in this case 2 x R-27 and 2 x R-73), two pilots, some oil, etc.

Maximum T/O weight is 34.5 tons. You may reach this when carrying maximum fuel (9640 kg), pilots (200 kg) and 6+ tons of weapons.

And finally, we have “maximum allowable” (or overloaded) T/O weight which is 38.8 tons. This is the maximum weight which can be allowed only for special occasions (in, say, 10% of all flights, I don’t know exact number).

For Su-30MKK, the maximum T/O weight is 38.8 tons thanks to much stronger undercarriage and airframe. I am not able to imagin the load needed to reach such weight (the empty weight is, say, 18.5 tons, maximum fuel is 10 tons, two Chinese pilots are 100 kg both [sleezy joke, sorry], so – we still have over 10 tons for weapons!

The difference between these two maximum weights (34.5 for MKI and 38.8 for MKK) are just because Indians ordered 34.5 and Chinese ordered 38.8.

That day (if I remember, June 1976) I had a launch in my home and heard some strange noise, looked into the window and saw a pair of… Lavochkin 250 flying over the town. This was my first impression 😀 .

No, it was not fixed deployment. Su-15s visited Slupsk only once or twice for 1-2 days.