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According to the general, in 2011 the Air Force plans to adopt Su-27SM, Su-30M2 and Su-35S multirole fighters, Su-34 fighter-bombers and Yak-130 combat trainers as well as Ka-52 and Mi-28N attack helicopters, Mi-8 armed assault helicopters, Ka-226 and Ansat-U light multipurpose helicopters.

"The priority for the strategic aviation is the modernization of 80 percent of existing Tu-160, Tu-95MS, Tu-22M3 bombers and Il-78M aerial tankers...and the extension of their service life," Sadofyev said.

For those of us raised in the cold war the fact that the name MiG doesn't appear even once on the list of aircraft being procured by the Russian military is something of a shock. There was a time when you called every Soviet aircraft a MiG, and you were usually right.

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The Sukhoi Design Bureau has been doing much more intersting work than MIG since the breakup of the SU. Even previously to the breakup of the SU, Sukhoi used to produce the Su-22 FrogFoot, and the Su-7 Fitter, among others, which were formidable foes.