Sukhoi

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Africa’s air forces are on a buying spree. Flush with oil cash, many African states are investing heavily in modern multirole jet fighters, deadly helicopter gunship and even sophisticated air-defense systems with radars and surface-to-air missiles.

The deals are worth hundreds of millions of dollars in countries still lacking many basic social services. So it’s worth asking exactly what Uganda, Angola, Sudan and the like are planning to do with their new air forces.

Some of the most interesting acquisitions involve modern, or modernized, Russian hardware. The Sukhoi Su-30—NATO codename “Flanker-C”—is a particular favorite of African governments. In just the last six years, African states together have acquired no fewer than 50 Su-30MKs.

Algeria and Uganda have the most, with 18 more planes slated to go to Angola. With a unit price hovering around $37 million, these twin-engine, tw0-seat fighters don’t come cheap for countries that still rank low on development indices.

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The Su-30 is a highly advanced multirole fighter with capabilities comparable to those of the American F-15E Strike Eagle. It boasts a powerful radar, a heavy payload and a range of 3,000 kilometers. In Africa, only South Africa with its 26 Swedish-made JAS-39C Gripens can match the Su-30s.

The new fighters are the crown jewels of Africa’s air arms, but a variety of other modern weapons systems made it to the continent, as well. They include at least 64 Mil Mi-24 gunship helicopters for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Sudan.

Rather, in purchasing Gripens or Su-30s, countries like South Africa and Uganda are trying to build up forces for regional power projection. Geopolitical posturing is also a factor.

“The new South Africa feels that is to some extend a regional power and with these ambitions come military force ambitions,” Wezeman says. “Angola feels that is has a very serious stake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Angolan air force has been used there in the past.”

“Uganda” he adds, “is preparing itself to defend its new-found oil fields, if necessary. Right now Uganda supports the government of South Sudan [in its civil war]. There have been air strikes far up in the north of South Sudan which I think only the Su-30s are capable of, considering the range.”

https://warisboring.com/why-are-african-countries-buying-all-these-high-tech-jet-fighters-55a07133bc79#.y5tjl6emx

[Jazzman]

Great article

In the right hands and with up to par tech, the Su-30 is better than an F-15C/D hands down. However the F-15E is a different animal. The latest F-15 which only the Saudis and South Korea have (for now) is a technological beast. Then again, that also depends which version of the 30 is in employment (the Malaysian version is superb!!!) and training, training, training!!!

The writer also failed to account for the Rafales in Egypt in most mission profiles and their F-16’s in dogfighting

Range and payload are inversely proportional if you remove drop tanks and aerial refueling from the picture and since this is Africa, aerial refueling is out of the picture. That 3k km range is the range it would cover from point A to point B with a maximum fuel load and flying at high altitude which results in less fuel used. What the writer should have used was Combat Radius which accurately accounts for weapons load, low altitude flying and mission configuration. In this, Rafale is the beast with 600km more than the Su-30

Best bet is the Su-35 (If I was the one buying). At the moment, only the F-22 is better. Australia na China waliona hii pale Indonesia wakakunja mikia

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UPUSSY tupu. When it comes to defense, u wana develop your own systems.
Saddam Hussein government was equipped with French hardware, a compete defense system I would say. Come the 1st gulf war, and French Personnel were task in dismantling the same system that Iraq paid Billions of dollars for.
And guess what, it was done via Satellite .

[Jazzman]

@0%_Omera

UPUSSY tupu. When it comes to defense, u wana develop your own systems.
Saddam Hussein government was equipped with French hardware, a compete defense system I would say. Come the 1st gulf war, and French Personnel were task in dismantling the same system that Iraq paid Billions of dollars for.
And guess what, it was done via Satellite .

Hapo tu kwa satellite ndio tofauti

Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses - Wikipedia

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@0%_Omera

UPUSSY tupu. When it comes to defense, u wana develop your own systems.
Saddam Hussein government was equipped with French hardware, a compete defense system I would say. Come the 1st gulf war, and French Personnel were task in dismantling the same system that Iraq paid Billions of dollars for.
And guess what, it was done via Satellite .

Reminds me of the Falklands war, Argentina had a few French manufactured Exocet missiles, in the 80s hii missile ilikuwa baba yao. They were able to hit British battle ships sinking two and killing 45. Soon their stock ran out and when they asked to buy more from france, the dilly dallying begun. Wangepata more Exocets, Britain would have had a hell of a fight on their hands

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@shocks

Reminds me of the Falklands war, Argentina had a few French manufactured Exocet missiles, in the 80s hii missile ilikuwa baba yao. They were able to hit British battle ships sinking two and killing 45. Soon their stock ran out and when they asked to buy more from france, the dilly dallying begun. Wangepata more Exocets, Britain would have had a hell of a fight on their hands

Learned something new, from the above scenario, we can conclude that, for countries that out source defense manenos, fighting a decent war, depends on which side your suppliers are aligned on.