Su-35 are 11 (the Su-35 to SU-37 upgrade crashed) prototypes. So they are far from production standard but make for excellent marketting gizmos.

For reasons unknown or best left unstate it will be highly unlikely, expensive, unsafe, impractical and unreliable to upgrade any -27UB or -30K to the IAF MKI std. I am sure we all would like to why not but like I have oft repeated MKI is a ‘program’ not a single a/c. The avionics is only 1/7 of the story (ok fine maybe 2/7th) 🙂

You’re going to need serious surgery on the airframe to fit the canards. I’m not sure if that is worth doing it on a perfectly healthy and robust airframe. I personally don’t think it’s a good idea.

However, you can still fit the avionics and the TVC engine. That won’t require any change on the airframe. I feel that the canards are moot and redudant anyway if you have the TVC engine.

The Buffalo was already with IL2: FB AEP (Il-2 Sturvmovik Forgotten Battles Aces Expansion Pack) in Finnish colors.

Pacific Fighters works in two ways—both as a standalone and as an expansion to IL2: FB AEP—adding Japanese and USN fighters to the tons of Russian, German, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, French, British, USAF already in the game. The result is endless exotic dogfighting possibilities like

Zero vs. Me-262?
Corsair vs. Yak-3?
I-16 vs. P-51?
Wildcat vs. Macchi M.202?
Tony vs. MiG-3?
Me-109 Zwilling Twin vs. P40M? (actually you can do this with AEP already).

The sheer degree of detail in this game is an obsession. You can go down to variants and mods, like FW-190A-6 with two MK108 cannons vs. P-38L (Lightning variant). Or something as nutty as Me-163 vs. A6M2 Zero.

I’m sure it will be out by October as Pacific Aces is essentially a mod and an expansion pack of IL2.

Yes, 1500km or 3000km does not matter, as both are way overkill when it comes to Taiwan.

Both the Chinese and Indian Kilos will most likely get them.

It remains to be seen if either of their navies’ surface ships get it.

Also, how convenient that the range is just 275km, 25 short of the magic mark… 😀

That’s true about the subs, but on the surface ships, it’s much more unlikely the Chinese would get this as they have no suitable platform. The Indians of course, have their Talwars which could use this.

The CMF? Funny for a “nationalistic” forum like that being banned by China’s Great Firewall. There are more caucasians there than mainland chinese. CMF posters often speak of watching a Yao Ming NBA game live and deciding who to vote for the Presidential race (the US race that is). The server also has an East Coast time zone (US East Coast that is) and the IP address is a place somewhere in Texas.

Despite having seas, Turkey is more of a heavily bordered state—Greece in one side, Ukraine and Russia to the north, Iran to the east, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to the south. It can do with a small to medium type mix. The F-4s and the F-16s it got seems to fill that role well. Plus the F-15 not having AshMs is a factor. If the seas are small, it would still have the characteristics of a bordered state. Larger fighters can be more useful patroling the Black Sea.

Here is the case of China.

China (1950-1990)—Continental power with large area, coastlines, but heavily bordered. Fought a number of border wars and skirmishes. Ideal Fighter type: Small fighters on conflict borders, with a heavy fighter core to cover the strategic element. What it got—hordes of J-6s, Q-5s, and J-7s, which is ideal to its situation. However, there is a gap on the strategic fighter element, which became the basis for the J-8 experiment. It is no surprise that China wanted a large fighter after this period, maybe the MiG-31, but got the Su-27.

China–Post 1990. China changed focus from its northern borders where it faced the threat of the Soviet Union, to the East coast facing Taiwan, Japan and the US. The tempo has changed from an all out, highly intense border land war to a limited lower tempo technology intensive conflict against an island and naval powers. Ideal fighter type: Large Heavy for range and coverage, with smaller fighters bordering potential conflict areas. What it got (getting or wanted to get): Su-27s and Su-30s as the preferred fighter type. There has been some resistance in acquiring the J-10 due to its size and range, and the same resistance will be applied on the FC-1. But like in the case of the Japanese F-1 and F-2, some choices are made for political reasons in supporting the domestic industry and technology base. The smaller fighters will have to be repositioned closer to the potential conflict areas. In any case future Chinese indigenous fighter programs are pointing towards the development of larger, twin engined fighters.