Russian Fighter Jet Tags

This is going to focus on the Russian aircraft since they’re easy to do, but these tags in general need cleaning up. I’ll be using the tag for the F/A-18 as a model for this, and there are two ways we can do it because of some ambiguity. I’ll start with the non-Flankers, which can only be done one way.
 
All of these should be aliases, not implications, though all of these tags should imply fighter jet and jet
 
MiG-19, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 Farmer -> MiG-19 Farmer
 
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 Foxhound ->MiG-31 Foxhound
 
Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-29 Fulcrum -> MiG-29 Fulcrum
 
The Flankers, Way One: The Better Way  
Su-27= -> Su-27 Flanker
 
Su-30SM, Su-30 Flanker-C -> Su-30 Flanker
 
Sukhoi Su-37 Flanker-F, Su-37bm, Su-37 Flanker-F -> Su-37 Flanker
 
The Flankers, Way Two: Merge all the Flankers into Su-27, since they are all *technically* expansions on the base model. The justification here would be that the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, which is not the same aircraft as the base F/A-18, was aliased into the overarching F/A-18 tag. But unlike the Hornet, the Flankers all look different from each other, so it’d be better to handle them individually.

Okay, I suppose a bit more elaboration is in order. The way we treat the various Flankers depends on how we want to approach distinguishing between different aircraft- do we account for visual or technical similarities? And how much different does a plane need to be to get its own tag?
 
Again going back to the F/A-18, the E/F Super Hornet models are actually clean-sheet designs that borrowed some design philosophy from the A/B/C/D Hornet to save time during development. They are entirely different aircraft, and do have some visual differences between them- and if I had my way, they’d be different tags. But this is an MLP image board, where the finer points of aircraft identification would be at best useless, at worst counter-productive as someone has to go find a jet expert to identify a plane.
 
And thus is the problem with the Su-27, -30, -33, -35, and -37. They’re all “Flankers” due to the fact that they represent incremental changes to the original Su-27 design. All but the original have thrust vectoring, some are one-seat and others two-seat, many of the later models have canards (little wings near the nose). That said, they are all different designs, and not “pure” variants on a single airframe. But because they are all part of the same overall development trend, they look similar and were all given the reporting name “Flanker.” So the question is: does this matter enough to justify each aircraft- none of which have more than two dozen images, most of which have less than 10- getting its own tag?
 
Part of the issue is the lack of a good overall name for them besides “Flanker,” which itself doesn’t mean anything to those not familiar with military aviation. Any other mass alias would be wrong and misleading, but the best candidate still isn’t great. I leave it to the moderation team to decide how to approach this, and I am available on Discord if further elaboration is needed.

For now I’ve made aliases to a simple alphanumeric scheme, but these tags will need to eventually be reexamined for a more thorough solution.