No, they were unable to do so as the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 did show

BS.This have nothing to do with full scale war.

Question was related to military aviation alone. USSR had very capable designs but it was always trailing in time. For example by the time MiG-23MLD was in service it had to fight in BVR with F-15.

But you cannot just compare USSR fighters with western ones by their characteristics.Soviet PVO fighters for example,work in conjunction with SAM units.
The main target for NATO is the tank devisions.And when they are defended by S-300V,Buk,Krug,Osa and Strela-10,this task will be far from easy.And the main enemy of the tank waves in mid 80’s was attack aircrafts and anti-tank missiles.In this period Abrams tanks were less than 800,and most of them were from the weak 105mm version.

Much like a cat in his litter box.

So….americans like to dig in sh*t?

The weapon system was outside the ground control network not really useful.

Five pages was needed for someone to write this.
It’s easy to forget that MiG-25 was designed to operate in GCI network.Like most USSR fighters….
Then is just matter of time for someone to point out how it was not suited for close combat.

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Of cause they can. A Me-262 did outfly a P-51 with ease, but that does not help related to the tactical situation…..

This exaple is just not right.P-51 was not used by country with constant carpet bombed heavy and oil producing industry.And here:

But in real life you can be shure that your opponent is aware of all your strong-points and will do the utmost to deny that to you. When I am unable to outfight a fighter in the air, I will try to hunt it down i another way, like kill it on the ground as it was the case with the Me-262 versus P-51.

You know very well that P-51 was able to do that not because Allied commanders thought “We cannot shot them down,we will then destroy them on the ground”.In the begginig of the war such thing was simply doomed.

he crews are aware that they are outclassed, but still not outfighted as long as the AIM-120s do outperform the AAMs of the Flanker.

Without prove this is just speculation.

Gazelle is one stage missile.Only the warhead with small engines used to guide separate.

I don’t know how anybody could judge the speed by the video. We can’t see what the flight path is like in the plane edge-on to the POV.

With ordinary video player like Window Media Player you cannot,but with video editing software that can view the file frame by frame is possible.And in the beginnig of the launch that i examined,wich is less than a second,the missile fly just straight upward.

But Sens,Russians was allways like that.Even here in Bulgaria we inherited some of this secret attitude.Now Bulgarian SA-2 rockets are still top secret….
They will need some time to forget this habit.There was official photos of the latest sub,so maybe there is change.
And Russians are not new to stealthy materials.In number of ballistic missiles there were measures to reduce detection.