Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Su-30 Flanker

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-Su-30 Flanker

The Su-30 Flanker is primarily an all-weather multirole fighter operated by Voshkod that was exported to the Aristocracy of Encantadia as their main ATF fighter. Voiced by

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While the Aristocracy of Encantadia may have formidable Sang'gres and a massive military ever since split from the Community, there was something it had lacked until recently.

During the 1st Encantadian War, one of the reasons why the Encantadia were never able to overpower the Canthans was due to the Canthan and later Aquilan dominance of the air. The Aquilan made KF-16s of the Canthan Air Force and the F-15 Eagles of the Aquilan Air Force squadrons easily outgunned anything in the inventory of the Minea's Air Force. Though the GVAW-era jet fighters and even the recently acquired MiG-30 Flashbat from Voshkod of the AEAF managed to score a good number of kills against the superior jet fighters of the Canthan and Aquilan Air Forces, there simply was nothing the Encantadian could do to break the stranglehold on air superiority that the Encantadian possessed at the time.

Since then, the Encantadians have undertaken significant steps to strengthen their air force, and they have not been without success. Now, the muscular Hind and Twinblades can often be seen supporting Encantadian assaults, and the Encantadian have managed to acquire the rights to produce under license a local variant of the infamous Voshkod Su-30 Flanker, an two-seat all-weather multirole variant of the Su-27 Flanker family.

Rather than simply producing a carbon copy of the Su-30, the Encantadians took the design further. Lacking both a modern air superiority fighter that can counter the all-new F-22 Raptor and the recently adopted Boramae by Cantha as well as an effective ground attack aircraft partially due to Cantha's procurement of the F-15SG Strike Eagle, the Encantadians decided it would be best to kill two birds with a single stone. To this end, the Encantadians made several modifications to their variant of the Su-30. While the modifications have reduced the overall payload of the Encantadian Su-30 variant, they have enabled the Su-30 to perform air to ground attacks.

Known locally as the Su-30KE, the Encantadian variant of the Su-30 exceeded expectations, causing the Encantadian to increase their production, and dubbed themselves the "Sang'gre Flanker" as the better version of their Voshkod cousin, going so far to have their planes take a more eagle shape.

And in the coming days of the 2nd Encantadian War, F-22, Stormchild, MiG-144 and F-15SG pilots soon learn to fear the Encantadian-made Su-30s. With the Canthans even believing them to be the rage of Minea.

However, Sapiro, one of the members of the Aristocracy, refuses to use the new Su-30 Flanker in favor of modernizing and improving the Cherdenko-era MiG-25M Foxbat.