Adding to ORAC's post
O/T. According to a buddy of mine from Russia, they just lost a SU-30 due to a friendly fire incident. Best info right now is that a bunch of SU -30s were playing "red air" during exercises against SU-35 and MIG-31s. At the end of the live fire portion of the exercise, the SU-35 had their missiles replaced with training rounds, but the cannon was still live. During BFM, the SU-35 driver apparently got into position for a simulated gun shot and ended up putting some holes in the SU-30. Pilots ejected successfully. Don't know enough about their systems to tell if it was the fault of the ground crew or the pilot should have flipped a switch to "practice" mode. Either way, everyone is alive. Which is good. However, as per Russian AirSpace Forces regs, whoever is judged to be at fault for the loss of the aircraft will have their wages garnished for the rest of their life to pay for it.
Cost of one SU-30 = 2,851,545,084 rubles. -Average monthly military salary in 2014 was 62,000 rubles. -So that is 45,992.6 years without interest. Da comrade, you're screwed.
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