Lethal Flankers

With over 270 Su 30mki's in the Indian Air force, these fighter jets which are the Russian built forms the backbone of the Indian Air force. As the bigger neighbour and the enemy of India, China has been running its modernization program of its Air force for quite some time, fighter jets like J 20 and purchase Su 35's from Russia poses serious threat to India. In the recent areal engagement with Pakistani f -16's, which fired their AMMRAAM missiles towards Indian fighter jets clearly states the beyond visual capability of Pakistani jets. It is clear that our neighbours are consistently growing there power by modernizing their jets. Extending the previous point, where f 16's fire beyond visual missiles towards su30mki but our jets didn't respond can rise the question that whether Russian made R-77 beyond visual missiles where incapable of locking f16 in beyond visual range. Above argument clearly gives reasons to modernize the su30mki fleet of Indian Air force. Which...