If you actually follow the story well, then you will know that most of the "Russian junk" does fly well, and as it turns out, it is the IAF and our own politicians which made it a junk.
For example. each plane is having a fixed nos of flying hours, I read somewhere that the nos of hours per year for Su-30 MKI is about 150 hours a year, IAF flies twice that no, But for Mirage 2000 they are very much careful not to pass that limit.
Further France never had an issue of grounding of Mirage 2000, but IAF had issues where entire Mirage 2000 fleet was grounded, thus as per your view, it is French junk, no??
The nos of Su-30 MKI that we have, that would require about 3450 crore of spares a year, where as IAF maintains spares of just abt Rs 50 crore. and due to non availability of spares, the availability of the Su-30 MKI was less.
After Parrikar was appointed as DM he changed the spares ordering way, and came with new agreements so that the spares when ordered would be available in a month, which otherwise took upto a year !!
Now the buffoons sitting at Air headquarters had no real clue how to manage and order spares which DM had and this changes he made increased the availability rate of Su-30 MKI which was less than 50% to almost 60% +
So the fault is with IAF and its brass and not with the planes,. Try to find all facts before you do come with these statements. There are links to points which I am saying including CAG report about spares required.
If you go by the ability, Su-30 MKI is an older plane and tweaked as per requirement of IAF, and after IAF got the plane, IAF did not come with newer requirements as per the developments going on. On the other hand the RuAF came up with newer specs and Su-35 also came into being,.
IAF buffoons have made the entire IAF become obsolete so that they can order in big quantity putting fear into the public. As and when Su-30 MKI is upgraded to the latest specs it will surely outclass Rafale in every segment. As a matter of fact Su-30 MKI did beat Rafale and Eurofighter in the various joint exercises.
We should dump PAKFA/FGFA program and focus on Sukhoi upgrades and AMCA, Tejas, Rafale/F16, etc.
No more Russian junk.