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Tricky to judge, there's a lot we don't know about these birds! Surely none of the forces operating them are to keen to disclose some of the teething troubles that I suspect any given one of these would be having :hmm:

I think we had a thread like this before and it was claimed the F-22 would outmatch any of those, odds between 2:1 (against something like Eurofighter) and 5:1 (Su-35). But that's if we believe what the Americans say about it :p

Personally, I think the newer-generation Sukhoi planes are gonna be a mean beast. Let's not forget they are derived from perhaps the most efficient and proven airframe design of all the choices, and probably have the most impressive manueverability. They're not quite up to par as far as avionics, but they're getting there.

I think the F-22 will still rip up any of those from long enough range, but assuming a Su-35 costs a mere fraction of the Raptor and still stands a decent chance against it... :hmm:
At close range - I think the Su-35 will outdo anyone. It's all the juice that the classic Flanker had, plus better thrust vectoring than any competitor, plus years and years of experience with helmet-mounted sights for aiming effective off-boresight missiles. Too bad (for the Flanker) that very little of air combat is this up-close anymore...


PS - A really big question along with this should be side-by-side comparisons of the missiles these birds use! And again we don't know that much about them in detail. If anything, I think the respecitve MRMs and SRMs these babies use are good matches for each other.