Specifications (Sukhoi Su-30MKI)
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 21.935 m (72.97 ft)
- Wingspan: 14.7 m (48.2 ft)
- Height: 6.36 m (20.85 ft)
- Wing area: 62.0 m² (667 ft²)
- Empty weight: 18,400 kg[66] (40,565 lb)
- Loaded weight: 24,900 kg (54,895 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 38,800 kg (85,600 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Lyulka AL-31FP turbofans with thrust vectoring, 122 kN with afterburner (27,557 lbf) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach 1.9 (2,120 km/h, 1,317 mph)
- Range: 3,000 km (1,620 nmi) at altitude; (1,270 km, 690 nmi near ground level; with no external fuel tanks)
- Endurance: 3.75 hrs (up to 10 hrs with in-flight refueling)
- Service ceiling: 17,300 m (56,800 ft)
- Rate of climb: >230 m/s (>45,275 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 401 kg/m² (82.3 lb/ft²)
- Thrust/weight: 1.0
Armament
- Guns: 1 × GSh-30-1 gun (30 mm caliber, 150 rounds)
12 hardpoints: 2 × wing-tip AAM launch rails, 6 × pylons under-wing, 2 × pylon under-engine nacelle, and 2 × pylons in tandem in the "arch" between the engines. It can be increased to 14 using multiple ejector racks. It can carry up to 8 tonnes of external stores.
Air to Air Missiles:
- 10 × R-77 (AA-12) active radar homing medium range AAM, 100 km
- 10 × Astra missile active radar homing medium range AAM, 120 km
- 6 × R-27ER (AA-10C) semi-active radar guided, long range AAM 130 km
- 6 × R-27ET (AA-10D) Infrared homing extended range version, long range AAM 120 km
- 2 × R-27R (AA-10A) semi-active radar guided, medium range AAM,80 km
- 2 × R-27T (AA-10B) infrared homing seeker, medium range AAM, 70 km
- 6 × R-73 (AA-11) short range AAM, 30 km
- 3 × Novator KS-172 AAM-L 400 km/Russian air-to-air missile designed as an "AWACS killer"
Air to Surface Missiles:
- 3 × Kh-59ME TV guided standoff Missile, 115 km
- 3 × Kh-59MK active radar homing anti-ship missile, 285 km
- 4 × Kh-35 Anti-Ship Missile, 130 km
- 1 × PJ-10 Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile,300 km
- 1 × Nirbhay Sub-sonic Cruise Missile,1000 km
- 6 × Kh-31P/A anti-radar missile, 70 km
- 6 × Kh-29T/L laser guided missile, 30 km
- 4 × S-8 rocket pods (80 unguided rockets)
- 4 × S-13 rocket pods (20 unguided rockets)
Bombs:
- 8 × KAB-500L laser guided bombs
- 3 × KAB-1500L laser guided bombs
- 8 × FAB-500T dumb bombs
- 28 × OFAB-250-270 dumb bombs
- 32 × OFAB-100-120 dumb bombs
- 8 × RBK-500 cluster bombs