4000km is on internal fuel. Howether i saw 4500km figure also.

I wonder what is F-111 range on internal fuel? Americans usually give ferry range with ext. tanks and russians without.

Guys i can’t believe you comparing puny and often rediculous designes such as old french and british so-called carriers to the mighty (compared to them of course) Gorshkov. Gorshkov was of cource ASW carrier, but so were all soviet carriers prior to Kuznetzov. Do they upgrade ASW equipment or they will dismantle its huge bulp in the nose underwater?

When Vikramaditya will be ready it will be 3 most powerfull non-american carrier in the world (Kuznetzov an de Goll beign better).

“For a pure transfer without any speed requirements a swing wing enjoys a considerable advantage in lift over drag, especially when loaded to max TOW. The low thrust-to-weight (compared to current fighters) helps to exploit this advantage.”

I am lost brother. Please provide some examples.

If VG wings were born from contradict requirements what is exactly changed? Why everybody first jumped on VG then abandoned them if as you say “swing wing enjoys a considerable advantage in lift over drag, especially when loaded to max TOW”?

Your summurise about Su-24 has some missing details.
First it was not even less range, but less related payload capability too.
Second, the internal fuelload was similar, but empty equipped was higher.
Third the AL-31 did become available in the 80s and the demand in production capability was reserved for the Su-27.
The first T-10s were flown with AL-21s.
The bypath-ratio of the AL-31F is still lower than that of the TF-30. For optimum close to ground-level it has to be ~1:1.
The Su-34 has an amoured cockpit and is heavy empty equipped compared to the F-111F f.e.
The Su-34 has not the weight penalty of VG, but not the less drag related to that too. So it has not the weight-range capabilities of the F-111F it is sturdy built and offers higher G-loads. To ease some temper, the follow-on of the F-111F the F-15E does not reach the weight-range capabilities of the F-111F either.
So some aircraft built in the 60s, like the A-6 too, were close to optimum for a given mission.

I wonder if Su-34 have better range on internal fuel only then F-111.

What advantages Su-34 have with its more powerful engines?
I read that it would be Su-34 to recieve first AL-41. What will change then?

“The Il-78 wasn’t a factor. Neither the MiG-29 nor the Su-27 had IFR capability. The A-50 was not a serious factor either, as the Soviets were using a GCI structured air defense network.”

Why then soviets built 40 A-50?

How they wanted to fight over say France or Japan, if they counted only on CGI?

Indeed people usually pair F-15 with Su-27 and F-16 with MiG-29. Howether MiG-29 unlike F-16 was desighned as air superiority fighter. Su-27 was supposed to be long range interceptor.

In fact if MiG-29 had longer legs the need for Su-27 would have been so much smaller.

MiG-29 was more then capable to take on F-15A.