to all those who said Su-30 is gonna go outta style, i refer you to the IAF thread, where i told you, that Su-30 will NEVER go out of style- even if its engines and metal frame rusts away, we will make another, even in the stealth jet era.
Why ?
coz Su-30 is not only very nimble for its size AND comes with a huge honking radome, so has scope to house a mother of all radar, its also a literal BOMB TRUCK level heavyweight in lift-capacity. 20 tonnes after fuel IIRC.
So yeah. You wanna sit behind your AD and lob 500-1000km long cruise missiles and take out paki and chinku infrastructure 100s of kms deep inside their territory, even in 2100 AD ?
Enter Su-30.
This is why India isnt interested in a long distance heavy bomber - Su-30 itself is our long distance light heavy bomber.
Have been saying this for ages.
Except Su, IAF has nothing which can -
1. Go 1000+ kms into enemy territory ( I know I know about chong AD HQ9 HQ16

) on internal fuel
2. Carry a 5000 pounder bomb
3. Carry 20+ SAAW and disable a runway with a single flight of fighters ( some say 28-32)
4. Tire enemy aircrafts down by hot-cold tactics and kill when they try to go cold
5. Start from deep within India and still kill at the borders
6. Change theatre in a 2 front war
7. Carry

with 800kms range now and 3-5

NG with 300kms range in the future
8. Act like mini AWACS for the whole attack or defence package
9. Carry that ugly SAP POD which can provide cover to the whole pack
10. My fav

: can do pugachevs cobra.
Sometimes I feel IAF should have asked for 600+ such airframes.
Btw- Chong possibly has 800+ derivatives.