The problem is, India will never be able to purchase the Su-57 as cheaply as they could buy the Su-30MKI, so the IAF may not receive all that many new aircraft – first batch of Su-57 probably won’t number more than 50 or sixty.

Surely the jet-engined aircraft would just stay high and come out of the sun.

Much aerial warfare happens at night time surely? Most of Israel’s airstrikes against Syria are carried out at night I believe.

The characteristics of the radar is only one of the factors affecting the outcome of the air battle. And this factor is not the most significant. I believe that the total combat effectiveness will change slightly

Sensors such as radar have played a key role in air-to-air warfare in the last 50 years or so, not to forget EW and ECM equipment as well. Type of missile is also important – that F-16 is typically carrying AIM-120C5 or C7, plus AIM-9X or Python 4, 5 – what sort of missiles are the Chinese/Pakistani aircraft carrying?

The MiG-31 is capable of developing a speed of 3000 km / h with four R-33 missiles, this is precisely known. I think that R-73 or R-77 under the wing will not prevent him from doing the same

I thought the MiG-31 was limited to mach 2.35?

What is the point of taking delivery of an air defence system when it seems to be out of action a lot of the time.
Unless of course, the pantsir system was inoperative only because it had been so successful in the previous hours that it had already completely used up all its ammunition and missiles shooting down Israeli targets?

You don’t want to bring up old narrative here. The years before 2010, when T-50 made first flight, there was no end to the doom nd gloom regarding the program.

Behold some 12 prototypes later, and 10.000’s of flyinghours, weapons development, New type 30 engines in the air. Does this Narrative sound familiar?​​​​​

A lot of nonsense has been written about the Su-57 F-35, F-22 etc, since before 2010 and long after. A lot of people were saying that the PAKFA would enter service by 2012 and there would 200+ airframes flying around by 2015, so go figure.

I got a question was it true when the Su-35 1st came out people thought it would not be great in numbers in the early 2000s until later on they got produced in significant numbers? Was this a false or a true rumor regarding any old forum users here?

Depends on if you are comparing it with other aircraft production rates.
Compared to the F-35, Su-35 production is slow. Compared to other country’s aircraft production such as Japan’s F-2, India’s Tejas or even France’s Rafale, the Su-35 production rate doesn’t look too bad at all.