Sukhoi Aircraft

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has manufactured the last two Su-30MKIs of the 272 aircraft contracted from Russia and is all set to deliver them to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

India had contracted the Su-30s from Russia in batches of which 222 were assembled by HAL at its Nasik plant under Transfer of technology (ToT) since 2004.
Of the 272 fighters, 40 are being modified to carry the air launched version of the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos.

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Sukhoi jets have been modified to carry BrahMos air-to-surface missiles which gives the army to aim for long-range precision strikes.
Air and maritime dominance in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

The Sukhoi Su-30MKI is a twinjet multirole air superiority fighter developed by Russia’s Sukhoi and built under license by India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the IAF.
It will give the IAF more advantage during its missions in the Indian Ocean Region as the BrahMos stand-off distance is around 300 km and the Su-30 MKI is 3000 km, which also has the capability of being refuelled during a mission.

BrahMos missile is a supersonic cruise missile which features Indian propulsion system, airframe, power supply, and other major indigenous components. It is named on the Indian river Brahmaputra and Russian river Moskva.
It is one of the fastest cruise missiles with a speed of Mach 2.8, which is about 3 times the speed of sound.
- Mach is used as a unit of measurement in stating the speed of a moving object in relation to the speed of sound. For example, if an aircraft is traveling at Mach 1, it is traveling at exactly the speed of sound.
It is a two-stage (solid propellant engine in the first stage and liquid ramjet in second) air to surface missile with a flight range of around 300 km (efforts are also on to extend this to 400-500 km).
Brahmos can be launched from land, air, and sea and multi capability missiles with pinpoint accuracy and operates on the “Fire and Forget” principle.

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