Yeah, but the Kornet-E brokered the peace last summer.

Thanks UAZ. So essentially, a single stage 3M-54E1, ideal for a rotary launcher. Though not as terrifying-looking as the 3M-54E :dev2: (a future legend, no doubt).

FlankerMan, sincerest apologies, Su-30MKI does NOT have BirdSlicer IFF, as you correctly stated. Mislabeled my HD images, sorry, once again!:o

The Soviets acquired several AWG-9s (and F-14s & AIM-54s) from the Iranians after the revolution in 1979. Why would they install inferior systems on the MiG-31?
In the mid 1980s tests of the Zaslon/ R-33 simultaneously engaged simulated cruise missiles at BVR (source: US DoD)
The Zaslon was the world’s first passive ES array, comparisons with the AWG-9 are meaningless.

The point I’m trying to make, Sealordlawrence, is that a decade ago whilst MiG was lying in intensive care, the politics favoured Sukhoi, who busily nurtured new export customers & filled the order books for Irkut, Knaapo & Tikhomirov-NIIP. Such was the runaway success of the Su-30, PAK-FA development could be funded in-house.
The genius of M.Pogosyan is that he knows he has the entire Su-30 MLU programmes’ in the bag, 2,000t/r module AESAs & supercruising Al-41Fs, will turn Su-30s into the poor man’s F-22, significantly enhancing their already formidable capabilities.
BUT he does NOT have a 5th Gen. fighter that is VIABLE for export (politically or economically), and under the consolidation that is UACorp, that huge Su-30 customer base will naturally look to MiG’s LMFS (vs the, no doubt more expensive & politically sensitive, F-35) as their complement/replacement. So whilst Sukhoi may dominate on the domestic market, MiG is well placed for global windfalls. Savy?

It is a ridiculous notion that the Russian government will not be willing to export at least a variant of the Flanker- they offered to cooperate in its design and production with both China and India!

Both MiG & Sukhoi assisted Chengdu & Shenyang in their respective future fighter projects (JF-17, J-11&12), but afaik no formal request for co-development of PAK-FA was made, even during the dark Yeltsin years where Chinese money was ‘co-funding’ many Russian defence programmes.

As for India, they were approached to co-fund & co-produce Sukhoi’s PAK-FA, as the design had already been finalised, but India wanted to be involved from the inception stage (bolstered no-doubt from the debacle that is the LCA), hence their likely co-operation in MiG’s LMFS project, which will have good export potential, and is the pet project of Fyodorev- the new president of the Unified Aircraft Corp. UAC probably acknowledges the export potential (or desire) of the PAK-FA is low, after the F-22 experience, whilst MiG’s smaller 5th gen will have full order books, much to the disdain of Mikhail Pogosyan.

Are the Indians gonna hurry-up with their MMRCA RFP, now that N-talks with Washington have broken down?

Pivyet vsyem.
Albeit unfashionable to discuss the thread topic, you guys are aware that the Russians are working on two 5th Gen. projects right? (according to Piotr Butowski, of JIG).
http://www.ato.ru/rus/cis/archive/15-2006/def/def1/?sess_=76c