KNAAPO handed over 2 x Su-30’s to the Air Force according to the local press (Amur Press) which sites the press service of the Far Eastern Military region as it’s source…

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14.06.11 11:54 АмурПРЕСС

В распоряжение летных частей Краснознаменного объединения Военно-воздушных сил и противовоздушной обороны ВВО поступили два многоцелевых ударных истребителя Су-30, сошедших с конвейера КнААПО, сообщает пресс-служба объединения ВВС и ПВО Восточного военного округа. Их распределили в гвардейские авиационные воинские части Хабаровского и Приморского краев.

possible pic of one of the Su-30’s mentioned above

http://russianplanes.net/ID45644

As I know, Russian air force buy 4 Su-30, which have bort numbers 10, 20, 30, 40 and are in European part of Russia. I think those are additional Su-30 planes. I wonder how many Su-30 they actually order.

The Gripen is not (as I believe you are suggesting) in the same class or near enough as the Yak-130. One is a multi-role super sonic fighter fitted with advanced avionics and the other is a lead in jet trainer. While the Yak-130 can take on simple combat roles such as CAS, it would not be wise to employ it in air defence…even fitted with radar. Look at single seat Hawk operators such as Malaysia and Indonesia. They are not operated for air defence and certainly wouldn’t be used against A/B model F-16s.

There is no realistic “vs.” discussion to be had on this subject. Both aircraft are in different leagues all together!
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I know, they are not in the same class, but the question is still valid. One less rich state, which could not buy expensive multi-role super sonic fighters, could base its air force around advanced jet trainers equipped with radar and AAMs like Yak-130 or any other. If that state is attacked by a state, which have multi-role fighters, they have only two options. Send planes against enemy fighters or hide them deep underground and let air defense do the job if they could.

Yak-130 nose looks like it is equipped with radar. What radar RuAF Yak-130 have and how is radar equipped Yak-130 comparable with Gripen in combat capabilities if we don’t account, that Gripen is faster.

It seems Volgodonsk need to get its 100 mm main gun.

Interesting, that it doesn’t have hockey sticks as prototypes. Does it have MAWS behind cockpit like PAK FA?

Talking about thermal imagers, didn’t UOMZ buy lycence to produce Chaterine TI from Thales and build factory for production line? What about other russian optical producers, which also produce thermal imagers? Do they all have lycence production or there are home products?

Russia also buy UAVs from Israel, so there is an option, that Russia could buy Israeli Lightening pod instead of Democles.

Let us wait to see when Vityaz will be build and tested. It is intended to replace old S-300 systems ( http://www.russiandefenseblog.org/?p=1036 ). 120 km range 9M96 missile is only longer comparing to 40 km range 9M96 missile, so I don’t think there will be a lot of problems to install it into a system and 120 km missile will have more sense than 40 km missile, while S-400 have missiles with range of 250 km / 400 km and Pantsir have range of 20 km. Buk-M2 have range of 50 km, although it is for ground forces units.