You won't know fear until these fighters backflip out of your line of fire and spit lead right into your cockpit.
-Anonymous TFMGAC fighter pilot

The Su-30MTF is a twinjet, supermaneuverable, tandem-seat multirole air superiority fighter developed by JSC Sukhoi and built under license by FlightArms Combat Aviation Company for the Tactical Forces Military Global Air Combat Branch.

2 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, The Tactical Forces sought to repair strained connections with Sukhoi after a TFM Strike Force raid on one of their facilities yielded 4 Su-27 fighters stolen and brought back to the West during the Cold War. The connections further get strained after the Russian Government discovered that FlightArms reverse engineered the stolen Flankers and built their own under no legal authorization. A bit of shaky talks later, and the Russians agreed to the offerings of reconciliation. One of these offerings was the legal joint development of a special Flanker variant to be used by the TFMGAC for many years to come. This was the Su-30MTF, standing for Modernizirovannyye takticheskiye sily or Modernized, Tactical Forces, pertaining to the variant being modernized under the service of the TFMGAC's Combat Wings.

An Su-30MTF on final approach at Bandit Airbase, Krakabloa

The Su-30MTF first proved itself in the middle of the Yugoslav Wars, taking on the crumbling nation's MiG-21 and 29s in short but fierce aerial engagements, gaining a staggering kill-to-death ratio of 15 downed hostiles while only losing 3 friendly jets. But it won't be until the year 2010 when the Flankers would fully go all out in dogfights. It was at that time when Darkcorp International rose to alarming power, taking over multiple countries at once and by storm. Su-30s of the 173rd Combat Wing, more popularly known as the Screaming Yellowtails faced off against the terrorist PMC's own Flankers and F-15 Eagles. Despite the airframe's deceptively large size, it's surprisingly high agility spooked Darkcorp fighter pilots on more than one occasion. But this was soon countered by incorporating better tactics as the conflict went on, and double digit casualties followed. Regardless, the Su-30MTF indeed gave Darkcorp's airpower a run for their money across multiple fronts, and cemented it's status as a fighter jet to be very much reckoned with.

An Su-30MTF next to it's original, older iteration; the Su-27. Note the size difference

The Flanker family of combat aircraft became the first Russian-made fighters to serve in the history of the Tactical Forces Military. This was soon followed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 after the TFM's experience battling the fighters flying with Yugoslavia, and now Darkcorp. The legal production license of the Su-30MTF by FlightArms is set to end by early 2022, but rumors say that they plan to renew their license just before New Year's eve to continue production and sale to the nationless fighting force.

A Flanker-Y passing over Krakabloa prior to the 173rd Combat Wing being transferred to Sunken Salt Airbase near the Wright Isles due to the eruption of the 2nd TFM-Darkcorp conflict

Multiple fighting Wings of the TFMGAC operate the Su-30MTF, but none were more well known and popular flyers of the fighter than the 173rd Combat Wing. Flankers became synonymous with the Yellowtails since their victories over the Balkans and in the first war against Darkcorp. The primary operator of the Su-30MTF in the 173rd is the Sunrise Squadron, flying alongside the TF-32 Valkyries of Atlas Military Aviation.

Top: Emblem of the 173rd Combat Wing
Bottom: Shoulder patch and emblem of the Sunrise Squadron

A Yellowtail Su-30MTF preparing for takeoff at Bandit Airbase

ARMAMENTS

4x AIM-9X Sidewinder IR guided missiles
6x AAFF-20R Seeker Multirole BVR missiles
Provisions for Air-to-Ground weaponry
1x Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1 30mm autocannon loaded with AP-HE tracer rounds

INSTRUCTIONS

Come with the jet once downloaded. It will appear after entering the game and before flying.

All credit goes to Aghsan22 for the brilliant Su-30 base