@HellFireIndo @Ravager @FPXAllen hey guys, WDYT ?
recently Su-30, Su-34 from Russian confirmed lost in lasf few days, yet shown its capability is worst than old days F-16. Does IdAF have a slight chance to maintains it's Su-series since no official Country outside Russia capable to do heavy MRO for Su-series. The good news is we can purchase Su MRO from China.
But again, the world are watching that Su 27 fammilies lost its fate as detterent fighter. Other than Victory day parade, me myself didn't see any use of this birds in IdAF inventory for 5 years ahead.
Well, we should grab 36 F 15 offer from US before its obsolete.
Decades ahead our armed forces inventory will filled both from EU and US with NATO standard.
so there's no future of Russian made equipment isn't it?
I still believe that it's not the aircraft nor their pilots who put those Sukhoi jets' reputation to shame. There's something deeper going on where with the tools that the VVS has at hand, they're either unable or unwilling to plan and launch better coordinated air operations against their Ukrainian opposition.
Regarding their usage in our air force, the writing on the wall has actually started to appear some time ago that they won't be of much use for us in the future. Since we can't perform heavy maintenance by ourselves and that their spare parts, especially engines, are notoriously expensive, in addition to that our current most potential adversary candidate is also operating a large number of Sukhoi fighters or some licensed derivatives of them, it's not that hard to convince even the most hardened Sukhoi supporters in the top ranks of our air force to drop our Su-35 orders and switch to Western fighters - or so, I assume.
If we're talking about our future combat aircraft inventory, for the next 30 years at least, while it's likely will be dominated by EU and US aircraft just liike what you wrote, but we ought to be able to draw some valuable lessons from the cost that Russia must bear from its ongoing war with Ukraine and how it will affect us, especially this:
That we can no longer depend on any foreign nations to build our own air power. Assuming that we won't be able to operate our Sukhoi fighters after the next five years, efforts must be taken to ensure that we must have the capability and capacity to design, build and operate our own indigenous designs within the next decade or so.
Surely, this doesn't mean that all of the components including the engines and electronics must also be of our own design since to be able to achieve this, it will take us much longer than 30-40 years even if we start today. It's simply that if we can design and build our own combat jets - even if they're still fitted with Western innards - we can stop ourselves from being too dependent on foreign sources for things like heavy maintenance and modifications to suit our operational needs down the way.
Now if we can just use the Russian missiles still remain in our inventory so that we can take them apart, study, and reverse engineer them to eventually create our own, that will be great and proves that at least there's still some use for Russian-made hardwares to us.
