Su-30MK
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Double-seat fighter.
The Su-30MK multipurpose double-seat fighter is a modification of Su-27SK produced serially since 1999.
The fighter is designed to gain air superiority through manned and unmanned aircraft destroying by guided missiles in medium range engagements and dogfights; sea and ground targets destroying by all kinds of weapons first of all by high precision ones while individual and group operations in all weather conditions. Besides the fighter can be operated to perform aerial reconnaissance while naval and land operations as well as while flight crews training to operate the aircraft and to launch weapons. The second pilot helps to reduce the first pilot’s load while combat missions with long-range weapon application, at nights, and long flights with in-flight refueling as well.
Su-30MK has the following peculiarities:
- modified weapon control system with extended capabilities to destroy ground and sea targets;
- new cockpit indication system on the base of multifunctional LCD indicators;
- upgraded navigation and communication system;
- upgraded EW system;
- great nomenclature of air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons mounted on 12 hard-points;
- in-flight refueling system;
- reinforced airframe and landing gear construction that allows aircraft operation with full fuel tanks and maximal combat load at takeoff weight up to 38.8 tons.
The Su-30MK weapon control system provides detection, tracking and destroying air, ground and sea targets in all weather conditions by day and night.
It comprises two basic parts:
- air-to-air weapon control system consisting of sight radar system, Optoelectronic sighting system and HUD, and additional capability of the Kh-31A anti-ship missiles launch;
- air-to-surface weapon control system allowing great nomenclature of high-precision weapon launch to destroy ground targets, and all sight data reflection on 4 MFD on control panels in the cockpits.
The Su-30MK radar can be operated in air-to-air and air-to-surface modes. It ensures air and ground targets detection in all weather conditions by day and night.
Optoelectronic sighting system includes optical location sighting system and helmet mounted target designator. The Su-30MK optical location sighting system represents a combination of IR-direction finder and a laser rangó finder, and it is used to detect and track air targets by its radiation in forward and back hemispheres, to range air and ground targets with the help of laser beam and to illuminate ground targets and destroy them by air-to-surface guided missiles with semi-active laser seekers.
The Su-30MK weapon comprises the GSh-301 airborne quick-fire 30-mm caliber cannon with 150 cartridge round; missiles and bombs mounted on 12 hard-points under the wing and fuselage. Air-to-air missiles include the R-27R1 (R-27ER1) guided medium-range missiles with semi-active seekers, 2 R-27Ò1 (R-27EÒ1) medium-range missiles with heat seekers, the RVV-AE medium range missiles with active radar seekers, the R-73E dogfight missiles with heat seekers.
The Su-30MK air-to-surface weapon comprises up to 6 Kh-31P anti-radiation missiles with passive radar seekers, up to 6 Kh-31A anti-ship missiles with active radar seekers, up to 6 Kh-29Ò (Kh-29ÒÅ) short-range missiles with TV-seekers or Kh-29L with semi-active laser seekers, two Kh-59ÌE medium-range missiles with TV-commanded seekers and up to 6 ÊÀB-500Kr or 3 ÊÀB-1500Kr guided bombs with TV-correlated seekers.
The Su-30MK unguided weapon can include up to 8 bombs (cluster bombs, incendiary tanks) of 500 kg caliber, up to 28 bombs of 250 kg caliber, up to 32 bombs of 100 kg caliber, and up to 80 unguided missiles of S-8 type (in four B-8Ì1 units), 20 S-13 rockets (in 4 B-13L units), 4 S-25-ÎFÌ rockets.
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