Project T10PM2		Upgrade of Su-27UB and Su-30 to multirole fighter Su-30M2 (Su-30KN) K for Komyerchyeskiy = Commercial M for Modifitsirovanniy = Modernised N for ? (Naval or what?)
Manufacturer:		Irkutsk Aircraft Production Association (IAPO) and Russkaya Avyonika = Russian Avionics.
Goal:		In the begining of 2001 russian air forces produces technical requirements for 1st stage of upgrade Su-27S/P, Su-27UB and Su-30 from its inventory. Upgrade aircrafts should be multirole with possibilities to use most advanced weapons: R-74, R-77, R-77M, Kh-29, Kh-31, Kh-59M, KAB-500, KAB-1500. Two programs was created since 1999: one by IAPO for Su-27UB and Su-30 (Su-30KN) and second by Sukhoi and KnAAPO for Su-27S/P (Su-27SM). Near the mainstream projects, on March 2001 cheap and quick proposition of Su-27UB upgrade was proposed to air forces by Sukhoi, Irkut and United Consortium of Production of Air Equipment from St.Petersburg - Su-27UBM.
Current (2008) status:		Project Su-30KN was realised between 1999 and 2003. Then was canceled, after two prototypes, first preproduction aircraft and 4 aircrafts Su-27UB and Su-30 upgraded. Russian Air Forces declined from upgrade of Su-27UB and Su-30, due to lack of founds appropriated to more important upgrad of Su-27 to Su-27SM standard. Two Su-30 are in Lipyetsk air base. Project Su-27UBM also was in 2003 was canceled, after one prototype built.
Designation	Type	Year	Bort number	Notes
T10PM2 ? T10PUM2-1 ?	1st prototype Su-30M2 (Su-30KN)	03.1999	302 (blue)	First prototype of Su-30KN was built in the begining of 1999 in Irkutsk - it was serial Su-27UB, first upgraded to Su-30 standard. First flight 03.1999. Testing (quick and successful) in air range at Akhtubinsk 1999-2000. Long time was unpainted, in stunning new painting (desinged in Irkutsk facilities) was displayed for the first time in 02.2000 at Gelendzhik air show. In 11.2001 state tests were ended. Up to end of 2001 two aircrafts Su-27UB and two old Su-30 from russian air force inventory were upgraded to Su-30KN standard.
First ptototype of Sukhoi Su-30KN (Su-30M2), 2000.
?	testbed	1999	05 (red)	To speed up a military test of Su-30KN in Akhtubinsk conducted in 1999-2000, serial Su-27UB from Russian Air Force inventory (no. red 05) was converted to testbed on which weapons are firing and testing.
T10PM2 ?	2nd prototype Su-30M2 (Su-30KN)	2000-2001	597	Used by LII (gromov Flight Research Intitute @ Zhukovskiy) old Su-27PU no. 597 built in 1992 was upgraded to Su-30KN standard and served as testbed and 2nd prototype. Aircraft was repainted in grey-blue scheme, renumbered to 02 and presented in 03.2001 at Zhukovskiy to high commander of Russian Air Force - general Anatoliy Kornuk. Also Su-30KN no. 302 and Su-27UBM no. 20 were displayed. Later prototype was still used by LII as experimental plane Su-27LL.
Second prototype of Su-30KN (Su-30M2) in 2005 (then it was experimental plane Su-27LL).
T10PM2 ?	1st preproduction Su-30M2 (Su-30KN)	2001	07	Very little known aircraft, only from few photos (2002 and 2007) from Irkutsk facilities. It's a preproduction aircraft manufactured by IAPO before program Su-30KN failed. Camouflage like Su-30KN no 302, number: blue 07. After 2001 it's purpose remains unknown, but still in Irkutsk facilities (2008 satellite photos showing that without any doubts).
Preproduction Sukhoi Su-30KN (Su-30M2), 2002
T10PM2 ? T10PUM2 ?	upgraded Su-27UB upgraded Su-30	2001 2001	67	Informations collected in about 2001 are totally unclear, indicating that two military Su-27UB and two Su-30 are upgraded to Su-30KN standard. That aircrafts may be since 2006 in Lipyetsk air base (4 Cyentr Boyevovo Primyenyenya i Pyeryeuchivaniya Lyotnovo Sostava CBPiPLS = 4th Center of Combat Purposes and Retraining of Flying Personnel), in service of 968 Isslyedovatyelskiy Instruktorskiy Smyeshanniy Avyatsyonniy Połk (IISAP) = 968th Research and Instructor's Composite Aviation Regiment (squadrons are equiped with Su-27, Su-30, MiG-29, Su-24 and Su-25). Curiously there's a two aircrafts in Lipyetsk apparently upgraded to Su-30KN standard from Su-30 (maybe it's a serials Su-30 transefered from Savaslyeyka), but both wearing the same number 67 (it not a mistake, they have different camuflage, but the same number!!!). First 67 appeared in summer of the year 2006 on 'regular' lipyetsks's painting: white nose, stripes in national colours. In that time another Su-30 has alod camouflage with stripes in national colours and number 66! Next year 66 was repainted and apparently get also number 67!
One of the Su-30KN from Lipyetsk air base, 2006, number 67. Maybe (almost for sure) it'a an upgraded serial Su-30 from Savaslyeyka (since 2005 3958th Air Base = ex. 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment), after all now a branch of Lipyetsk training center. "Fashionable" false canopy underside. One of the four MiG-29 from Lipyetsk air base, formed in 2006, Russian Falcons aerobatic team. Overhauled Sukhoi Su-27UB, 968 IISAP from Lipyetsk center, 10.2007 - friendly visit in France (Colmar air base). This aircraft has President of the Russian Federation standard, painted when March 20th, 2000 President of the RF Vladimir Putin was flight from Krasnodar AB to Grozniy-Syevyerniy AB in Chechnya (pilot Alyeksandr Kharchevskiy). Sukhoi Su-27, Lipyetsk center, about 1994. Stripes in russian national colors where worn by Lipyetsk's Sukhoi from begining of 90's.

Project T10UM		Upgrade of Su-27UB to multirole fighter Su-27UBM UB Uchyebno-Boyevoy = Trainer Combat M for Modofitsirovanniy = Modernised
Manufacturer:		Sukhoi Design Bureau and Irkutsk Aircraft Production Association (IAPO) and United Consortium of Production of Air Equipment from St.Petersburg (avionics).
Goal:		Cheap and quick proposition of Su-27UB upgrade was proposed to air forces by Sukhoi, Irkut and United Consortium of Production of Air Equipment from St.Petersburg. Offered to Russian Air Force in March 2001.
Current (2008) status:		Program is realised in early 2001, soon rejected by Russian Air Force and terminated after one prototype was built.
Designation	Type	Year	Bort number	Notes
T10UM	1st prototype Su-27UBM	03.2001	red 20	Aircraft is serial military Su-27UBM no 20, upgraded to near-Su-30KN (Su-30M2) standard, but without air refueling probe and any serious airframe changes.
Prototype of Su-27UBM, March 2001, Zhukovskiy.

Project T10SKM		Multirole fighter Su-27SMK [demonstrator] Multirole fighter Su-30KI [demonstrator] SMK for Seriyniy Modifitsirivanniy Komyercheskyi = Serial Modernised Commercial KI for Komyercheskyi Indonyesiyskiy = Commercial Indonesian
Manufacturer:		Komsomolsk-on Amur Aircraft Production Association named after Gagarin (KnAAPO).
Current (2008) status:		One and only prototype (no. 305).
Designation	Type	Year	Bort number	Notes
T10SKM ?	demonstrator demonstrator prototype	1995 1998 2002	CMK 27 305	1. In 1995 aircraft was prepared by KnAAPO from Su-27SK serial number 40-02, with air refueling probe and air-to-ground missiles mock-ups. It was pure demonstrator. Number: CMK, camouflage: standard chinese Su-27SK (flat medium grey on upper surfaces, flat grey on lower surfaces). 2. When 1997-1998 Sukhoi talks with Indonesia about selling Su-30, in 1998 aircraft was in hurry converted to demonstrator called Su-30KI, rebuilded using "chinese" upgrade kit Su-27SK (but retain air-refueling probe and OLS on right side). Aircraft with number 27 has a new camouflage - white and black waves on old grey background. First flight 06.1998, then shifted to Akhtubinsk air range for tests. Please note that aircraft has nothing in common with real Su-30 except name (it's the only one-seat aircraft with name Su-30!). When Indonesia refused to buy Sukhois, was unsuccessfuly offered to India, Vietnam and in 2001 to Malaysia. 3. In 2002 was rebuilt once again, to prototype of upgrade packet of the Su-27s, so it's name was changed to Su-27SM and for export Su-27SMK with new avionics, newest air-to-ground missiles. Bort number 305, camouflage as previous, but more waves on nose of the aircraft and inner surfaces of tail fins. It was presented on MAKS-2003 and many shows.
Demonstrator Sukhoi Su-30KI, 1998. A little funny: Sukhoi Su-30KI as a pattern for japanese F-15 from "agressors" squadron...

Project T10SM		Upgrade of Su-27S/P to multirole fighter Su-27SM S for Simonov = Mikhail Simonov it's a designer of serial T-10, S is also translated as Serial P for Pyeryekhvatchik = Interceptor M for Modofitsirovanniy = Modernised
Manufacturer:		Sukhoi Design Bureau and Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO) and PBKB from Ramyenskoye (avionics).
Goal:		At the begining of 2001 russian air forces produces technical requirements for 1st stage of upgrade Su-27S/P, Su-27UB and Su-30 from its inventory. Upgrade aircrafts should be multirole with possibilities to use most advanced weapons: R-74, R-77, R-77M, Kh-29, Kh-31, Kh-59M, KAB-500, KAB-1500. Two programs was created since 1999: one by IAPO for Su-27UB and Su-30 (Su-30KN) and second by Sukhoi and KnAAPO for Su-27S/P (Su-27SM). Upgraded aircraft should be able to air refueling, but that specific requirement was not necessary for russian air force.
Current (2008) status:		Program is realised since 1999, in 2003 accepted by Russain Air Force and almost two regiments is now equiped with Su-27SM (deliveries since 12.2004). Prototype and testbeds in hands of Sukhoi Design Bureau and Gromov Flight Research Institute.
Designation	Type	Year	Bort number	Notes
T10SM	1st prototype Su-27SM	12.2002	305	First (and only) prototype of upgrade Su-27S/P to Su-27SM standard previosly served as demonstrator of Su-30SMK and Su-30KI. With new configuration of weapons, avionics from RBKB and radar N001V developed by NIIP named after Tikhomirov take first flight in 12.2002, then was displayed to public on MAKS-2003. As testbed for specific equipment in 2001-2002 served Su-27PD no.598 from LII (ex. Kvochur's Test Pilots aerobatic team).
1st prototype of Sukhoi Su-27SM, 2003.
T10SM	serial Su-27SM	since 12.2004	two-digit red or blue	First four were delivered at the end of year 2004 to Lipyetsk air base, where were tested and next three upgraded Su-27SM were handed over to Russian Air Force in 12.2004 (numbers 82 84 86) for 23rd IAP (Fighter Aviation Regiment, 11th Air Army) at Dzemgi airfield, home airfield of KnAAPO at Komsomolsk-on-Amur. In 2005-2006 deliveries to Dzemgi continues and finished after 24 aircrafts - full regiment. In 12.2007 started deliveries to next regiment of the 11th Aviation Army: 22rd GIAP (Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment) at Centralnaya Uglovaya (also Far East). Next batch of modernised aircrafts: November 2008, aircraft are armed with Kh-31P missiles. Flag of the Russian Air Force, 2008.
Upgraded Su-27SM, 2005, 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment, Dzemgi air field @ Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Upgraded Su-27SM, 2009. Aircraft #06 was presented first time at MAKS 2007. Similiar camouflage schemes on aircrafts: 01, 04, 21 (and Su-27UB #11).

Original drawings: Mariusz Wojciechowski. All right reserved. Copyright © 2008.