I think the quote you are looking for is:

“with friends like brussels, who needs enemas”

Its not just Brussels but Greek politics. They need to take decisions. Russia can easily rescue them.
External Oil money has not just rescued Turkey/Egypt from IMF but they able to afford much larger military power.

I thought I read they were working on something based on the Tu-214.

this your answer

http://in.rbth.com/news/2015/06/30/defence_ministry_wants_entire_fleet_of_anti-submarine_il-38_planes_upgra_43953.html
A unified platform for Russia’s naval aviation to replace the current Ilyushin-20 and Ilhyushin-38 will be selected in 2015-2016, Kozhin said.

The universal platform that will replace all of anti-submarine planes will boast far better parameters surpassing foreign counterparts.

“The platform will perform its maiden flight by 2020,” Kozhin said

It simple. GCC want to destroy Iraq and presumbly Iran oil industry so it can sell its own Oil/gas expensive for ever and buy off loyalities. It also mentioned Israel existence also depend on GCC largesse. You cannot have over $30k per captia living standard with high military budget and very small exports. Its not Singapore or South Korea.
Obama is trying to break this monoply.

A simpler explanation is that the current effort is coasting on bureaucratic inertia generated with MoUs signed a decade ago, back when the PAK FA was actually in early-development. As far as Modi & Co. are concerned, the truncated MMRCA deal (‘worst of both worlds’) indicates that its quite possible for ‘decisiveness’ to take priority over ‘plain logic’.

Modi is the most indecisive leader. I dont see any evidence he has signed big military contracts or accelerate the implementation of previous one. as long as he wasting time on Rafale. he will not order items like A330MRT or enhanced funding on LCA.
Even replacing HMD on PAKFA will be very costly as this full integrated into cockpit of aircraft.

http://www.janes.com/article/52553/indian-rafale-talks-hit-offset-snag
Indian Rafale talks hit offset snag

http://brahmand.com/news/Russias-UAC-asks-HAL-to-speed-up-joint-aircraft-project/14128/1/15.html
That’s why we are asking our Indian partners to increase the pace to proceed with the aircraft design itself. We need to manage the maiden flight and start flight testing by 2020,” Sluysar said.

There’s no remote-controlled off switch in Western (or any other) aircraft. If there was, there’d be the risk that an enemy would find out how to operate it. Those hypothetical Iraqi F-16s couldn’t have been immediately grounded, any more than Iranian F-5s, F-4s & F-14s were in 1979.

I doubt technology was that advanced in 1970s to hide it. now electronics are alot smaller and software more developed.

The effectiveness of the different systems can be told very easily from looking at who’s fought who, & the results. If the Soviet/Russian system is so superior, how is it that Israel still exists?

Israel exist because it came from former Russian empire. and Russia didnot colonize Arabs like British/French/Turks. so the technological ability of society was not at same level from the start. so weopon and training will have to be simple. There was no time for big transformation right after ww2.
even in short time all Arab military achievements are due to Soviet/Russian weopons and training. start with 1956 Suez. I highly doubt Israel would have returned Sinai or billion of aid to Egypt if it werent for Soviet backing them. Russian/Soviet backing is always very important for Arabs.

And Iran wasn’t crushed in 1980, but (despite being cut off from support for its weapons, including thousands of Americans who’d left in 1979) survived & fought back?

Imagine Iraq was country of three times population of Iran with all of it is humogenous and no EU weopons. when you have minority government like Irak/Syria. Its very hard to fight external wars as more resources are spend on internal stability. Plus Iran was supported by Syria.

See the current Indian generation is no longer caught up in the heydays of the Indo-Soviet relationship. They have been inducted in the 90’s and their experience with Russian equipment is usually, works, is rugged but where are the spares. Or this is missing, that’s missing. And what we are seeing is a slow & steady erosion of the footpring Russia once enjoyed in the Indian military mindset. Programs like Brahmos are a good way forward, trust and verify on both sides. However, even there, Russia started being protectionist, so the Israelis etc stepped in. There would be no MRSAM or LRSAM programs if Almaz Antei had its act together but it didn

Israeli didnot stepped in . they may have given bribe thats why the product is so delayed. and range are too short for current standards. Almaz Antei has credibility thats why there product portfolio is overflowing with orders. and every one from SKorea to China to Iran want to cooperate with them.

And now for something completely diferent:

JSR are you sure your actual name is not something like John Marwood Cleese?

hehe. It took them couple of decades to learn this that only Russian weopons they can afford if they want to win there own wars. $10b downpmt without a deal.

http://susris.com/2015/06/22/new-era-in-saudi-russian-relations-why-now-karasik/
Saudi Arabia, under the so-called Salman Doctrine, is facing increasing challenges. An Arab official told me that, in his opinion, the Houthis are increasing their ‘presence’ in the Kingdom’s southern provinces of Najran and Jizan, and that Houthi SCUD missiles are making their way through the defensive shields provided by the Americans, notably the PAC-3 system