Britain as a T1 partner has had more access, influence, and insight into the JSF program than India has had with the PAK FA.

Britain has contributed $2b towards JSF years ahead of getting first operational JSF. It is India slow release of money and lack of any R&D contribution that’s the problem.

IMHO they had to wait until the Iran nuclear deal was concluded, just note how involvement started up slowly and ramped up after it survived US Congress votes.
Ukraine crisis also messed up things great time, sparkling irrationalistic (N.B. it is not the same than irrational) game of action and reaction between Russia and NATO: they closed Bulgarian airspace and so they had to find a longer and more risky route.

In every case Russia can capitalize now the fact it can have friends (few) and antagonists (many) but no one is in such bad terms or so powerful to refuse to deal with or ignore what it say .
So they can just put themselves as a middleman and strike separate deals with all the involved parties, even if they are sworn enemies between one’s another.

Actually the Bulgaria route is much more distance as you have to go wide across Turkey and it is un safe if planes have trouble. It is much more friendly to fly over Irak/Iran airbases.

I will not be surprised if Putin announce that this whole operation is for safety and security of Israel than no western countries will be able to oppose it.
and it will further alienate the Arab street as they think Putin is bombing them for Israel and no one is opposing it.

And all that thanks to a massive strategic airlift asset built in… Ukraine 😉

It is not built in Ukraine. They can built it only if Russia supply them with parts and labor to built it.

http://www.aviastar-sp.ru/en/about/milestones/

Terrorist operate every where and the root cause of ISIS is financing by GCC namely Saudi Funding and tacit support of US.

IF these countries want to stop ISIS they can always stop the source of funding but they dont have any intention to do so.

Its a fight between Shia and Sunni ………Russia getting involved when there is no threat to its security is just fishing in troubled water.

Its better to leave the ISIS alone and let all the other stake holder fight their own battle ………..IF ISIS comes to Russia and bombs the Orthodox Church we can talk.

Russia supply weopons to Irak and Syria. so it is going to be blamed any way.
Saudi King letter to Bush few months before 9/11 of of US support to Israel. and boom 9/11 happened in few months.

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islamic_militancy_2847
Context of ‘August 2001: Crown Prince Abdullah Warns Bush Against Pro-Israeli Stance in Letter’

your completely lack any logic.

But Russia sent Su-30 multirole fighters not the Su-27. Su-30 is multi-role right? It can carry smart bombs.

Su-30 is too small for this kind of tasks and Su-30 only used for AAM and EW role. Once you put AAM/EW pods into fighter. it does not carry that much strike load.. I not even including the Anbar province in Iraq. It is target rich environment on vast area.

I dont think Russia will install S-400 in Syria. Why sould they make easy to US and NATO to colect ELINT signals from it?
Older S-300 versions will do just fine after all they don´t want to shotdown NATO aircrafts.

there is S400 very near to Turkey on other side. S-400 at Syria will extend air defence zone into Mediternean Sea/Turkey/Israel. so Nato will not park Aircraft carrier there.
I will even suggest they put S-400 into Southern Irak.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/us-saudi-iran-isis-gcc-bahrain-yemen.html
With over $100 billion already spent on conventional military expansion in the past five years and another extra $50 billion allocated over the next two years, the Saudis are fully committed to and capable of out-powering the Iranians.
Saudi military planners have already started looking at potential scenarios where Riyadh could use air power to provide cover for anti-Assad forces not linked to terrorist groups. Sooner or later, a Saudi coalition will get involved in Syria, and it will become the largest and most dangerous front in the conflict between the kingdom, its Arab allies and Iran.

My prediction is if Ruaf really do hard hitting strikes over extended period of time. Saudi government will be either overthrown by Islamists for being incompetent in stopping it or they will join full frontal war. . either case is highly beneficial for Russia.

Flat bottom, built with composite materials and black color.

C-SAR : Combat Search And Rescue.

Russia has a lot of CAS anyway.

C-SAR from air is done when not enough ground troops. It was defeat Georgian so fast on ground that C-SAR and CAS is moot point and its introduction will create confusion.