[Stanny]

You should read Vladimir Krasilnikov's review in russian here:

http://www.hrono.ru/text/2003/kras_udar.html

Compare his figures with up-to-date information from Wikipedia and you will see that Russia is progressing really slowly.

The F-22 though arguably the best fighter planes isn't the silver bullet it is made out to be. There are only 112 of them.

Yes,but there are only 12 Su-35s in service with Russian Air Force for the present time,and they are not a 5th generation fighter jets at all.That is a heavily modernized version of Su-27,and they still have big problems outfitting them with AESA radars,desperately needed for modern air combat.However,USAF is completing the modernization of and deployment of new F-15C AESA versions,F-16 Block 60 already have AESA,F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets have AESA too.

So you don't think the Russians have anything that can detect and take down a B-2?

Do you mean that accident when F-117A Nighthawk was shot down during NATO campaign in Yugoslavia?It was shot down more using a visual detection,than actually tracking it with a radar,just occasionally.

So only one Typhoon is left, but there are still between 6 & 8 Delta IVs in service plus Borei of which one has been launched and two others are in advanced stages of production.

It is still almost twice less than 18 SSBN Ohios of U.S. NAVY.You must also take into consideration that facts:

1)The primary strategic naval wepon of Russian Strategic Submarine Fleet will be Bulava ICBM.Bulava is just a navalized version of Topol-M ICBM with the same much reduced nuclear warhead and countermeasure loadout compared to that of Trident D5 ICBMs normally carried by all U.S. SSBN Ohios.

2)Bulava had a lot of problems during tests.

To my personal opinion,these "power demonstrations" done intensively by russians in the past time should be only associated with presidential elections coming in the next two weeks.Russian people should be shown that they are still mighty and able "to show something to these americans".That's why we can observe such stupid accidents like Tu-95 Bears flying at low altitude over the decks of U.S. aircraft carriers as it was in 1970s,though principles of naval warfare have changed,flying up to U.S. airspace in Alaska,where ancient Tu-95s are met with state-of-the-art F-22 Raptors and so on.I am reading russian military forums quite often,and even russian people who understand more or less in military technolgy say that "their goverment looks at them as at idiots".I am treating all that is shown on russian TV nowadays as pure propaganda.