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alot of work for likely not huge benefits

The SU30MKI cant even get its missile off a rail

maybe they are, who knows t bh

Did the math, these aircraft have flown less than 28k flight hours(per a/c) over 50 years. Theyre very lightly used. Just the SLEP adds 40k flight hours, these can serve well into the 2050s.

my guess is 7. 2 were retired very early on, 2017, so i suspect they may have had some underlying reason for that.

"50 year old junk" lol PAF airframes been in service since 63, these came a decade later, have basically barely been touched, with tens of thousands of hours of life left in them and thats excluding an optional SLEP which can extend their life by another 40 years...

An SPJ is not the same as an OECM platform, please stop spreading misinformation.

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12 AC a year is after 1/2 of the line was dedicated to export orders/upgrades.