I think Su-27SM3 use AL-31FM1 engines.

However.. the reason why they still keep the N001 radar family for SM series. kinda escapes me. They could look into Phazotron Zhuk-27 family but i guess NIIP Tikhomirov won’t be pleased on it.

As far as I know N001VEP radar is actually more capable than Zhuk-27 and it is cheaper as they only need to replace some components and not whole radar. Also N001VEP is serial produced radar used in export Su-30MK2 and domestic Su-30M2 and Su-27 SM/SM3, while Zhuk-27 was not in serial production.

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Considering that in few days two Saudi coalition planes crash in Yemen, both doing CAS mission, there is a good posibility, that both were shot down by SAMs, most probably MANPADs.

The head of Gefest have some correct points regarding PGMs. RuAF mostly use older laser and TV guided bombs and missiles and they have problems with bad weather. If Kaira TV camera could not see through the clouds, it could not guide laser guided bombs to the target. The same is true for TV guided bombs, if they don’t see target through the clouds, they could not lock on it.

Great weapons load of Su-35 with its AAMs, ECM pods, targeting pod, Anti-ship missiles and TV guided bombs. I hope we will also see Su-30SM equipped with new ECM pods, targeting pod and R-77-1 missiles.

No, there were two Su-30KN prototypes, b/n 302, which is in Irkutsk and b/n 597, which is in use with Gromov Institute. They also upgrade four Su-30 to Su-30KN, which have b/n 66, 67, 68 and 69 and they are in Lipetsk.

Irkut also deliver Su-30KN upgrade package to Baranovichi aviation plant in Belarus, which upgrade Belarus and Kazakhstan Su-27 jets with this Su-30KN package as they upgrade Angolan Su-30 to Su-30KN now.

Modernized to Su-30SM is nonsense as it need Bars-R radar and engines with TVC to be in this level. Most probably it is about Su-30KN modernization package from the same Irkut as Su-30SM, which Belarus use to modernize Su-27 and Su-30 fighters. Su-30KN package upgrade existing radar to multirole radar with similar capabilities as N001VEP which Su-27SM have. I think Gefest was just a hoax and under this name they got modernization components from Irkut or from Belarus considering, that Belarus modernization mof Angolan Su-30K to Su-30KN is late. After all, Gefest didn’t modernize any Flanker before and suddenly they modernize a group of Su-33 in few months and they become operational in real combat without any testing. They for sure got operational modernization package, which are Su-27SM and Su-30KN. Su-27SM package could be done only in KNAAZ so in Zhukovsky they could install Su-30KN package.

US is aggressor in Syria as they shot down Syrian Su-22, which was flying in Syrian air space and attack ISIL convoys, which are driving from Raqqa to Deir Ezzor. This is the clear evidence, that US is supporting ISIL and defend them against SAA.

Russian army and VKS is the only legal foreign force in Syria under international law as Syrian sovereign government ask Russia for military help and inform UN about it. RuAF and SyAF have all legal rights to shot down any other plane in Syrian air space, specially of US aggressors, who support terrorists in Syria.