New aircrafts and the future of the Air Force: What’s the price of power?

Emboldened by the successful export of the Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft, the Russian Air Force gave the green signal for the testing of the Sukhoi Su-30 SM at the Irkutsk aircraft factory’s airfield in Siberia. Several thousand kilometres to the West, in the city of Ulyanovsk, the Ilyushin Il-76 MD-90A made its first flight. This is the first Russian made Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and a significantly more modernised version in comparison to its Soviet predecessors.

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