I think the interface of PLAAF's Su-30mkk and Su-35 are also in Russian. It was about the monitor being too small for Chinese charactors. I read that from a magazine and can not provide the source tho.
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I can't say for sure on the Su-35, but the MKK (Modernizirovannyi Kommercheskiy Kitayski) is a bespoke Chinese Flanker, with bespoke Chinese avionics. I don't think it would make much sense to have it in Russian still.
Requesting Chinese interface would result in extra development time and perhaps problems like the display designed for Cyrillic script being too small for Chinese charactor.
How would you know the MKK had "display designed for Cyrillic script" though, and not Chinese MFDs like all of their domestic Flankers?
I would assume it is in Russian too, but I don't know for sure.
I think it's up to you to convince others why russian made MKK would have chinese MFD. Never mention it was developed in last century way before MFD gets popular.
Source photos are too low res to make out whether avionics are labelled in Chinese or not, but at least the MFDs are there-
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don't take these as gospel, there are some Chinese blogger claim all Su series display are in Russian. There were efforts to convert the Su-35 display to Chinese, because it's interphase need to display complex commands, such as flight path suggested by AI and it would better integrate Su-35 to Chinese central command, but change the display was proven to be too difficult
That's interesting. Looks like there's credence to Chinese characters being too small on Russian-spec MFDs after all -
Though that makes me wonder if the cockpit of domestic batches of the J-11 even have the same instruments as the Su-27 variant then, with all else presumably being the same/similar.
Does swapping out Russian-built avionics with Chinese-built affect the whole rig like the Su-35 as reported then?
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