Well, it’s simple, a vote of a Slovak citizen in terms of keeping his life standard costs much more than a vote of an Ugandan.
Oh dont worry, I understand these things well, but when I see this mess over here I start bitching about it and think nostalgic. My rhetorical question was why Uganda has money to buy new Flankers while Slovakia is not able to maintain three Migs?… 😀 Anyway, why would such a small country need to buy Flankers?. You can drive across my country within six hours. 😉
As for maintenance, I think they will rely on KnAAPO support. Training staff and building whole supporting infrastructure for just six aircraft would not make much of a sense and would cost even a lot more.
We can assume six will not be final number and they`ll soon buy a few more. Either way that would mean a lot of people from the KnAAPO factory on one place. I was thinking about Flanker aircraft technicians, mercenaries recruited from russian AF bases. Anyway, I`m still interested to find out how the Sukhoi/KnAAPO support differs from the RSK Mig. Having hands-on experience with maintenance of our Mig fleet I can say that their support here is not far from the word scandalous. I wonder why is the Sukhoi stealing big deals across the world leaving the Mig at home, they can probably deliver far better quality service, meaning ground support, tooling, spare parts and trainning.
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