Eating too much propaganda?
Engines are utter fail, PAK-FA is delayed because of that, they lack the skills to make the blades that doesn't melt at the needed thrust output. Since I last checked average engine service life is two times more for US/EU made engines versus Lylka and Klimov. Nothing has changed metallurgy wise. They burn faster as they need more thrust to achieve supercruise and thus the hurdle again.
China didn't steal what can't be stolen as Russians simply doesn't have the tech. Making monocrystal blades ain't a childs play. Also trying to make something and calling it monocrystal also judging by the facts kind of doesn't work. Chinese buy their engines from Russians for their 5th gen fighter tests, yet they fail creating their own just to fulfill gen5 needs, while Russians still doesn't have a working 5th gen engine themselves, like 30 years already, ain't it? That F* kolhoz has never ceased to be.
Nope. But seems that you do. Hollywood movies are far from the reality.
Engines that were on T-50 prototype were the first, initial version which was designed to power cancelled project Mig 1.44. Newer engines are already there, with better dry & wet thrust compared to F-119, but seems to me that they lack funds to put them into production. Service life for new Russian engines is practically the same as for new western ones and I don't know ehere you pulled from that info. Let's not forget that Russia doesn't maintain the engines after every flight like USA does, so naturally, engines service life will suffer. Older and even modern Russian engines have pretty much the same service life as their western counterparts. For Instance, F-100 on F-16C has service life of 1000 house, while initial AL-31 on Su-27 had 1500 hours. Most modern Russian engines such as RD-33MK on Mig-35 have service life of 4000 hours which puts them above their western counterparts, even if you don't like that fact.
Chine stole much of the stealth technology from cancelled YF-23 and crappy F-35, while their WS-15 was made thanks to stolen data from AL-41 variants. Since it's confirmed that Russia has the technology for making monocrystallite blades, it's ridiculous to claim otherwise. As far as I know, monocrystallite blades are the least of a problem for Russians to make a powerful engine for their 5'th gen fighters. Funds are much bigger problem for them. They developed various fancy technologies which were beyonf anything west (USA) has, but eventually abandoned them because they were too expensive and not cost efficient according to their doctrine.
Practically rubbish. Tactics and information is the most important product, the pilot is only the executioner, also much more assisted by fly by wire controls (exactly this control doesn't allow MIG also the latter simply retrofitted designs marked 4++ to turn at G9).
You watch too much Hollywood movies.
Both countries have more advanced field information, so it depends on tactics and pilot. Even with good tactics and plenty of information an the battlefield, without a good pilot you will not be able to do much. That's why Russian, US and Chinese pilots train much more than, for instance, Syrian, Libyan or other pilots who neither have capabilities (funds) nor advanced weaponry.
Too much TV. Propoganda does a lot of fake news... lol
That might be partially true, since there was very little information about that. Nevertheless, US gvt would deny the incident if it happened, just like they deny many other things untill proven otherwise. If your most advanced aircraft gets hit, I think that pretty much every government would try to hide or deny that. At the moment, and I think that was somewhere in the summer 2013, Syrian and Jordanian sources said that they shot down 4 Tomahawk missiles and that F-22 crashed near Syrian-Jordanian border likely due to being hit by SAM. Syria at the time did have at least one S-300 battery, which is capable shooting down an F-22 and other stealth aircraft. If you like, it's not capable according to Hollywood movies and some propaganda articles, but in reality it is. Even a few western military experts confirmed that. I remember that after the alleged incident USA stopped illegal military activities in Syria, so all this could make sense or at least make you think twice.
Eh, I can't find any information on it. Find it very hard to believe that the first air kill of a Raptor was not made world news instantly. No Government could have suppressed that information throughout the whole world.
Look the answer above.
Let's not forget how fast we (the USA) completely destroyed Iraq as well. I joined the Navy at the beginning of that war, and it was over before I got out of boot camp.
Completely true, along with 3 million civilian casualties due to direct or indirect (eg. DU poisoning, there's a documentary and many documents confirming that) involvement. The best technology Saddam had were export (downgraded) Soviet models with poorly trained crew. This is no match for any modern army - let's keep it realistic.
F-22 is certainly a fancy aircraft with many modern technologies, but it hasn't met any modern adversary with well trained pilot in combat. F-35 the other hand is an utter garbage. Even western analysts confirmed that, despite that's not in the interests of US military-industrial complex which will greatly from this program that was primarily funded by the US citizens and nations who foolishly spend their hard earned money on such overpriced aircraft. For the price of 200+ million $ per single F-35, someone could buy 4 Mig-35's, at least 2 Typhoon's or 3 Rafale's - all of which are superior fighters and much cheaper to maintain than F-35.
