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About this mod
New addon aircraft mod that adds the enigmatic and elusive Su-30M3 variant of the Flanker series into the game. Comes with heavy-hitting weapons and integrated IEWS capability.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Donations
This mod aims to offer a new aircraft addon that aims to appeal both to vanilla players and those who want to mod the game as much as possible. Single-player only.
The Su-30M3 was originally conceived as a compromise and collaboration between two rival Russian aircraft makers under the Sukhoi umbrella: Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant (KnAAPO), known for the Su-30MKK and Irkut Corporation, whose flagship product was the Su-30MKI. Su-30M3 was born in 2000 as an advanced variant of the Su-30MKK with the integration of systems from the Su-30MKI, including canards and thrust-vectoring nozzles, granting the plane a supreme advantage in supermaneuverability.
It was meant for the export market, with a focus in China, however there was very little interest in the plane, forcing its makers to drop their bid. Later on, the Su-30M3 was rebuilt as the Su-35UB, this time offering renewed avionics and combat capabilities. Offered to South Korea and Brazil, the aircraft was not chosen by either for their air forces and spent its later years as a testbed for advanced avionics. No further relevant cooperation between KnAAPO and Irkut has taken place since then, making the Su-30M3 a unique product of its time that, unfortunately, never managed to catch a market, making it enigmatic and elusive in the eyes of Flanker scholars all around the world.
Alright, with that said, this is what the plane, codenamed "Flanker-EAV" by those who conceived it, offers for Strangereal pilots:
- A balanced performance profile similar to the Su-30M2, so it is fun to use while not being excessively UFO-like.
- Powerful weapons:
- Unique skins:
To install, unzip the .7z file and manually insert the .pak files into the game's directory. Vortex users are also covered, and the only thing you need to do is to download directly to Vortex or drag the .7z into the mod manager.
I hope you enjoy the mod as much as my modding partners and I enjoyed creating it!
Credits: I can't credit these guys enough for their wonderful work and support! Show them some love and check out their mods!
- Mr. Zebra, for his amazing early assistance in building the model.
- cipherunknown, for his technical assistance in giving shape to the mod and engineering its most essential parts, including rigging of the model.
- Megalith, for his advanced modding skills in making the mod work exactly as intended, as well as debugging and testing (also for his enormous patience).
- Konan, for his technical assistance in debugging and also for enabling the mod's IEWS feature.
- Sincerity, for his critical work in making the mod available as an addon aircraft.
- Lanzerince, for kindly allowing me to use his formation lights assets to include with the Su-30M3.
- Moupp, for his wonderful screenshots.
Changelog v1.5 25/06/2024: Fixed MREC, fixed tire sockets (no more gear clipping into the ground), new highly detailed cockpit (FOV mod or VR will be required to see the whole cockpit).
The Su-30M3 was originally conceived as a compromise and collaboration between two rival Russian aircraft makers under the Sukhoi umbrella: Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant (KnAAPO), known for the Su-30MKK and Irkut Corporation, whose flagship product was the Su-30MKI. Su-30M3 was born in 2000 as an advanced variant of the Su-30MKK with the integration of systems from the Su-30MKI, including canards and thrust-vectoring nozzles, granting the plane a supreme advantage in supermaneuverability.
It was meant for the export market, with a focus in China, however there was very little interest in the plane, forcing its makers to drop their bid. Later on, the Su-30M3 was rebuilt as the Su-35UB, this time offering renewed avionics and combat capabilities. Offered to South Korea and Brazil, the aircraft was not chosen by either for their air forces and spent its later years as a testbed for advanced avionics. No further relevant cooperation between KnAAPO and Irkut has taken place since then, making the Su-30M3 a unique product of its time that, unfortunately, never managed to catch a market, making it enigmatic and elusive in the eyes of Flanker scholars all around the world.
Alright, with that said, this is what the plane, codenamed "Flanker-EAV" by those who conceived it, offers for Strangereal pilots:
- A balanced performance profile similar to the Su-30M2, so it is fun to use while not being excessively UFO-like.
- Powerful weapons:
- GPB, which allow the plane to strike ground targets with extreme precision and firepower.
- LACM, meant to destroy large clusters of targets with a single missile.
- ADMMP, an adapted version of the CFA-44 Nosferatu's signature weapon, for use with the Flanker airframe.
- Unique skins:
- Skins 1, 4, 5 and 6 represent Osea and Trigger, and they are based around the original concept art for the F-15S/MT Eagle+ featured in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere.
- Skin 2 is based on Kazakhstan Air Force's Su-27 paint scheme from 2005
- Skin 3 is based on the Su-35BM's mock-up paint scheme as originally presented at the FIDAE 2008 airshow in Santiago, Chile, by United Aircraft Corporation (UAC)
- Skin 7 is a bonus "Ukrainian Air Force Siege of Mariupol Commemorative Edition", a semi-fictional skin based around the Ukrainian Air Force's Su-27UBM paint scheme from 2009 and features Bort No. 86, representing the 86 days that the Siege of Mariupol lasted before its fall.
To install, unzip the .7z file and manually insert the .pak files into the game's directory. Vortex users are also covered, and the only thing you need to do is to download directly to Vortex or drag the .7z into the mod manager.
I hope you enjoy the mod as much as my modding partners and I enjoyed creating it!
Credits: I can't credit these guys enough for their wonderful work and support! Show them some love and check out their mods!
- Mr. Zebra, for his amazing early assistance in building the model.
- cipherunknown, for his technical assistance in giving shape to the mod and engineering its most essential parts, including rigging of the model.
- Megalith, for his advanced modding skills in making the mod work exactly as intended, as well as debugging and testing (also for his enormous patience).
- Konan, for his technical assistance in debugging and also for enabling the mod's IEWS feature.
- Sincerity, for his critical work in making the mod available as an addon aircraft.
- Lanzerince, for kindly allowing me to use his formation lights assets to include with the Su-30M3.
- Moupp, for his wonderful screenshots.
Changelog v1.5 25/06/2024: Fixed MREC, fixed tire sockets (no more gear clipping into the ground), new highly detailed cockpit (FOV mod or VR will be required to see the whole cockpit).