These pics do point out that length of fuselage is at least some 15 meters. with overhanging control surfaces that may end up over 16 meters.

As far as i could find, in the last 15 or so years, irkut and knaapo combined exported little over 260 su30. That is some 17-18 planes a year. Knaapo had periods (chinese orders) where it made 24 planes per year. Other than that, knaapo’s production was closer to 10 in the years it did work for export. Irkut maintained that rate of production, i don’t know if it ever went over 12 or so per year.

Production can certainly always be increased, in theory. Though i guess that depends a lot on economics. A short term hike up may not be worth it. Investment in further production may lead to higher prices, unless we are talking about dozens of planes per year for a steady, multidecade productions.

I am just saying that there has to be a sweet point – highest economically viable production rate, based on both domestic and foreign orders. Right now, and this is purely guesswork of course, I would say that knaapo’s sweet point seems to be up to 24 planes a year in the 2015-2020. period.

Can someone explain to me why ruaf has ordered those 30 Su30sm?

What can those planes do that su34 and su35 can’t? Isn’t it better to have standardization of the fleet and less subtypes? So why not order 15 more of each su34 and su35 instead those su30sm?

Or was that order a matter of politics? su34 and su35 are both running a bit behind with their development and order, and Irkut had free production schedule to guarantee “extra” 30 good planes in pretty short order?

What is going to happen with Irkut? Did it sell its combat planes to ruaf before? It seems to me as if it was primarely concentrated to exports. Will there be more contracts with Ruaf for more su30? Does that depend on how much export work Irkut has?

Also, what about rest of the production capacity for fighters in russia?
We have Irkut – which makes su30. (does it make anything else?)
There is Knaapo – which makes su35 and which will make pakfa.
Napo is making su34…
Does Mig have its own production line? What is it called?

Is it possible/likely that Irkut will at some point switch to su-35, making it for exports? At the same time, that would free up capacity in knaapo for pak-fa production, which will be needed soon.

Is there anywhere a list of regiments and their parent brigades for s300v series? It doesnt even have to be up to date. Which brigades are active now in the Army?

I made the measurement from two more images, one view similar viewpoint to this one, where plane ended up again 12,5 meters long (and where it had wingspan of 9,5 meters; i used the trucks cabin width for that, which is known)

But then i also used the truck’s wheelbase as a reference on the top down image, where the truck is in that city’s intersection. There i got 15 meters of length and as much as 12 meters of wingspan. Weird…