Just ignore him, that post was ridiculous (speed, range, deployebility? We just listing of every characteristic and assuming Mi-28 is the best at it?), however, what issues has the IAF had with Su-30 munitions?

I know they had some R-77 problems, but then again they got most of those from Ukraine, not Russia.

It’s interesting, that only India have problems, while other don’t have. I think this have also to do with mixing of Russian, French, Israeli and Indian electronics and components and this mix never work as good as original does. In the same way India will spoil their Rafales with replacing French components with Israeli ones and I doubt this mix will work as good as original French Rafale does. And than Indians will complain how bad Rafales are.

Question for anyone who may have ran across this – any word on what the VKS (or VMF I guess) thinks of the Su-30SM’s flight performance?
I am mostly interested in the canards + TVC, as compared to all the other iterations they operate (Vanilla, UB, Su-35, etc).

As far as I know, they are quite pleased with Su-30SM as it prove to be very reliable jet. We do not know, how much more powerful are Su-30SM engines comparing to export Su-30MKI as well as for radar. It is known, that export Bars-M radar have limited peak power on 5 kW although transmitter could work with 7 kW peak power, but we could assume, that domestic Bars-R radar work with 7 kW peak power and with that also higher working power, what mean longer detecting ranges. Bars-M radar detect targets at 350 km, so most probably Bars-R detect them at 400 km, if it work with 40% more power. No doubt, that it have improvements comparing to export Su-30MKI/MKM and is more capable. I read, that there is a difference in TVC. In export Su-30MKI/MKM nozzles are deflecting for +/- 15° while in domestic Su-30SM they deflected for 20°.

RuAF Mi-28N targeting truck with ATGM.

Mi-28N engaging more ISIS trucks, Range is the big number in the center.

I think the first video is the following of the second video. I don’t know, why operator didn’t use auto tracker as helicopter fly quite fast at 270 km/h and at range of 5 km, where missile fly quite some time to the target and it is more difficult to track target manually, what is seen in the second truck in the second video, where operator dance with the cross around the target and with that miss it.

Wasn’t around 10.000 ISIL terrorists only around Palmyra? And considering thousands of them also around Deir Erzor, that would mean around 3/4 of ISIL only around those two towns. This practically mean that defeat of ISIL in Palmyra will crash ISIL military might as they will lost half of their forces and they also lost thousands of terrorists in their failed offensives in Deir Erzor. This is good as after Palmyra defeat liberation of Syria and Iraq will go quite quickly as majority of terrorists will be already dead. But I think ISIL have far more than 25000 terrorists to defend all those battlefields and fight heavily in Palmyra and Deir Erzor and in Iraq as well.

That’s not Phaz Arbelet but Almaz’s N-025 radar. N-025E(Export) however is only Ka (millimeter) and lacks the X (centimeter) band and weather and air-air modes.

The N-025 for domestic service is still a no show as far as I know.

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Ka-52 radar have more T/R modules attached on antenna comparing to N-025 for Mi-28N, so it could work in different bands and have better capabilities.

Is this because the Su-33 has been deemed to not be capable (or suitable) for carrier operations anymore?

I think they will replace Su-33 with MiGs on the carrier simply, because MiGs are new multirole fighters and they are smaller, what mean larger number of fighters on the carrier or larger number of helicopters if they keep the same number of fighters. Also Northern fleet is responsible for Arctic region.

There will be no new Su-33 fighters. Last year Russian MoD talk about new duty for Su-33, that they will serve as ground based fighters to protect Arctic region. Maybe a small group could be still on the carrier together with MiG-29K/KUB. More interesting question is, why they will go through new overhaul if they recently come from overhaul in KNAAZ, where they also went through minor modernization. Most probably for additional modernization as Su-33 is better suited for long over the sea patrols than usual ground based fighters as it have better corrosion protection for carrier operations and navigation equipment dedicated for over the sea operations.