Well, they have similar numerical variety of aircraft (PAF + PA) compare to IAF + IA. Both at 23 types.

For a country with a much smaller defense budged they surely would be facing logistical and training problems with such a large variety of aircraft. Given this their operational availability would also be hindered.

according to your logic 1950s era MIG-21/Mirages have same maintaince costs as C-17 or Mirage 2000.
1950s planes were very simple, low tech manufacturing, less weight and most of spares i think coming from canniblization.

US: C-5, C-17, C-130, C-27
China: Y-8, Y-9, Y-20, Il-76
Russia: An-124, Il-76, An-72, An-24, An-12
UK: C-17, A400M, C-130J
France: A-400M, C-130, C-160, CN-235
Turkey: A-400M, C-130, C-160, CN-235

You do realize that UK/France/Turkey has much smaller fighter fleet so they can afford little more and diverse transport fleet in there budget. some of them produce parts for A400m.
India is dealing with limited budget and unlimited diversity.

Multirole or not.. it all depends on what kind of system the J-15 has.
Do we know anything about this? Nope!

With a slightly higher thrust engines, it can do takeoff and bring back better vs the Su-33.

I never said they cant do but so far they haven’t done it and production rate is also very slow.. infact MIG-29K is without canards and surely can be upgrdaded with TVC. the plane already has 5 wet stations. A lot of flexibility.

sorry. Russia is not selling to ISIS. I know you would love for it to happen and you’re too broke to go to Syria to volunteer.. But Russia is pro-Assad okay Mr. Daesh.

Russia is still not pro- Assad or what ever yet. it is just balancing it. Once it become pro some thing you will see the end of Middleast as you see it. starting with no flyzone from Syrian Coast all the way to northern airline route.

Russia is not bankrupt EU that need to sell anything. it is more favor and balancing.

The more Russia become military powerfull the more under the table investments from rich Arabs.

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/government/portrait-of-a-nation-the-ambassador-entrepreneur-and-trekker
After taking the post, he decided to focus on economics.

“And that worked out pretty well. In the past two or three years the UAE has put US$6 billion (Dh22bn) to investing in Russia,” Mr Ghobash says.

“We have built a wonderful economic bridge and we have an institutional presence in Moscow.” A team from Abu Dhabi visits the Russian capital every month to continue discussions. “And we have already developed some capital,” he says.

3 C-17 will cost $1.2b which is not signed yet. and having greater lift capacity than 30 year old IL-76 does not say much how long will IL-76 stays.

I have doubt IAF can afford simultaneous addition to light, medium, heavy transports same time. None of agreements have been signed.

There is no concept of having uniform platform for tanker, AWACS, transport.

Su-27s have L005S Sorbtsiya pods, Su-34s have L-175V Khibiny ECM containers..

if 30 times self protection is credible than there is no place for medium fighter.

http://www.deagel.com/Aircraft-Protection-Systems/Khibiny_a002981001.aspx
According to KRET corporation the Khibiny increases the aircraft’s survivability by 25-30 times. This pod development is the result of the lessons learned during the conflict with Georgia in 2008 where all the aircraft lost were not fitted with an EW system which is the main cause of them being shot down. The Khibiny jamming system was tested successfully for some time on the ground in Buryatia, Russian Federation. The Russian Air Force plans call for the installation of the Khibiny jammer on all its advanced jets such as Su-30SM, Su-30M2, Su-34 and Su-35.

Su-30 can also carry it.

In what way have aircraft projects failed? First time I’ve heard of it.

These are uncompetitive products from start and cant be upgraded.
Y-20 starts with 1960s engines with overweight wider draggier C-17 kind platform. it can never be operationally effective.
C919 is built with aluminium that is permanently delayed and built at expensive city like Shanghai.
the point is none of Chinese aviation products are export competitive to make it lower price for domestic market.

– The MiG-29s & Jaguars will start retiring around 2025 with the pilots likely converting to the PAK FA. As for the Rafale, until the ink dries on a signed contract…

there is no chance of MIG-29 retiring in 2025 when first ones are barely entering the service.

– A330 based AWACS is at least a decade away. Will eventually replace the Phalcons.

Even A330 production will close down in favor of A350.

– While currently an Avro-replacement, the C-295s is an An-32 replacement as well.

its complex deal. lets see first one.

– Same for the C-17 vis a vis the Il-76.

I highly doubt only 10 C-17 sufficient considering they will get older and engines will out of production.