Kazakhstan, the largest territorial republic of the erstwhile USSR outside Russia itself, inherited a large fleet of combat aircraft in 1991. To this day, MiG-29, Su-27 and Su-25 aircraft (each kind after 1 squadron) remained in operation and until late besides 2 MiG-31 squadrons, whose Kazakhstan was the only user outside Russia. The life of the inherited photograph is coming to an end present and Astana has so begun investing in a fresh combat aircraft. The choice was on the multitasking Su-30. Kazakhstan presently has 1 squadron of them. Unlike another export customers, Kazakhstan receives a Su-30SM version (not MKK or MKI), thus a device in a configuration very akin to Russian.
