weasel1962 wrote:The Super 30 is an upgrade of the 20+ year old Su-30MKI that at its heart installs a 1st gen Russian AESA in place of the non-AESA Bars.
I'm not sure the super-30 will get AESA. Rather, it'll be the version of the locator IRBIS. It'll be enough for parity with j-31.
And by the way, how do you define generations of Russian AESA? Even I've seen at least 5 generations of Russian T/R modules, from late soviet, to modern russian..
weasel1962 wrote:The reality is that Pakistan can't really afford anything better than the JF-17 even if the Chinese have already pitched, re-pitched and practically thrown the J-31 (after pitching the J-10) at PAF's doorstep. Same thing happened with the Z-10 helo.
Russia has a practice of providing loans for the purchase of its weapons. So I would not rule out the conclusion of a contract for the su-35 after the contract for the supply of s-400 to Pakistan. Source - former Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan.