俄罗斯苏霍伊公司所属苏-30MKI预生产型3号机三向视图。当印度空军于1996年11月确定采购苏-30MKI时,这个型号甚至仍是一个“技术方案”而已。为了尽快推出样机,苏霍伊公司以一架苏-30标准型进行改装——加装前翼和AL-31FP推力矢量发动机,从而成为第一架苏-30MKI,苏霍伊公司内部称之为T-10PMK-1。首架苏-30MKI于1997年 Russia Sukhoi Su-30MKI belongs to the pre-production 3-way machine view. When the Indian Air Force decided in November 1996 to purchase the Su-30MKI, the model was even a “technical solution.” In order to launch the prototype as soon as possible, Sukhoi to a Su-30 standard modified - the installation of the front wing and AL-31FP thrust vector engine, which became the first Su-30MKI, Sukhoi company internally called T-10PMK-1. The first Soviet -30MKI in 1997