Then why does VVS keep ordering more Su30s variants? Your entire assertion is stupid, just because USN is choosing to operate both F18E and F35C together doesn't mean that F35 can't replace F18E, just like VVS keeps operating flankers alongside Su57.
Fake news, never happened. Still waiting for you show which fighter has higher crash rate than Mig29K in first 15 years of service. Don't run away from this question bro
It proves that Russian planes are low quality junk, thats why IN is kicking Mig29K out after just 20 years of service. You know like we kick it on the backside?
Whats there to explain? It exploded for whatever reason, how does it matter for IN? Indian navy didn't suffer because of enterprise explosion. Indian navy did suffer due to explosion in the peace of junk called Vikramaditya, whose cost was escalated 3.5 times by blackmailing a navy officer. There is evidence for it. So I know India was fleeced by Russia in that deal.
Tell me something I don't know, moron. Of course deck based fighters have lower availability than land based. Where the hell did I deny that? Problem is Mig29K availability is too low even for a deck based fighter. Thats why IN is kicking it out.
India News: India's mainstream naval fighter jet plane MiG-29K faces operational deficiencies due to defects in engines, airframe and fly-by-wire system leading t
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By the way, nice try comparing availability of American fighters amongst themselves. You don't have balls to compare availability rates of American fighters with Russian ones, because you know how that will end. Both Mig29K and Su30MKI have had significant availability issues. Which is why IN is moving away from Russian junks and Russia is losing its only export customer of deck based fighters. Now keep crying about how superior Russian engineering is
Its not a notion, its reality. Rafale has been taking off from INS Hansa, and soon it will be taking off from INS Vikramaditya. It doesn't strike a nerve with me, I am happy with Navy's choice, but Russians should really be worried, nobody wants to buy their "superior" engineered fighters
Harriers already served 32 years with IN bro, I know accepting reality is hard for somebody high on russian vodka. but thats how it is. Junk Mig29K is going to have just have over half the service life of Harriers in IN.
Its alright dude, don't cry, there are basic facts that you can't change:
1. INS Vikramaditya suffered accidents during sea trials and has suffered multiple accidents since. Its a shit ship for which Indian navy was forced to pay more than 3.5 times. We accepted that with a bitter pill as we didn't have any options. But now India has carrier building capability of its own, and we won't let Russian thieves fleece us any longer.
2. Same with Mig29K, this piece of shit was cancelled in Russia. IN revived it from the dead, and because of Indian money, Russia was able to develop it and used it even on its own aircraft carriers. But because of poor russian engineering, the aircraft had record high crash rate and record low availability. Navy was forced to seek replacements for it much earlier than planned, which has resulted in lot of money being diverted which could have been used for purchasing more ships.
3. Nowadays Russia doesn't have a carrier itself as its only carrier is being "repaired" since last 9 years. If superior Russian engineers need help, they can ask India, we have an Indian built carrier proudly serving our navy.
If you still want to continue with your delusion that Russian engineering is superior, please carry on, its nothing to me. Just know that nobody else outside Russia accepts it. Thats why "superior" Russian weapons see no export success, and Russia is even losing its biggest historical markets.
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（Topics like exporting J-11Bs to replace Su-35s, Type 052Ds to replace the 22350s, and Type 99As to replace the T-14 — they're wildly popular in our corner of the Chinese internet too. Every single time, brutal reality slaps them right in the face, yet the "Grand Marshal" enthusiasts just can't get enough of it.） Truly that special sense of humor shared by brotherly nations. But honestly, if the Russians were going to buy, I'm pretty sure they'd go for the 001A or the 004.
