Yeah Russia who sells oil for revenue is a 3rd world country,fine Great,they are more than happy with such contemptible accolades. Nigera,Venezuela,Iran,Iraq,Saudi Arabia,Kuwait,Angola and some others are all 3rd world countries. But I don’t think the U.S had ever paid $400 million to any of these countries to just gain cutting edge space technology knowledge in terms of teaching them how to really go about hanging it. I don’t think spies from the U.S always took it to lenghs to go about stealing their state-of-the-art technologies,just as the Russian spies tried to steal that of the U.S.
Don’t worry Russians would no sooner after learning the art of market economy,trade and commerce would also start to make fridges,VCRs,radios,building materials,textiles,soft drinks,electronic gadgets,pharmaceutical products and what nots to start making money just like the U.S has been doing over 200 years ago.
They are young in this aspect. The CIA has no credibility, they can even make the difference between AK-47 and nuclear device in Iraq. I don’t think a country, a 3rd world by our earthly rank even though God created a single world without any classification can dare hold the “mightiest of all mighty nation on mother earth” at bay for over 60years, avoiding a scary conflict with that 3rd world country. Get the paradox and logic, heh?

How much does it cost to develop a 5th generation aircraft if the will is there financially? Remember Russia just paid a lump sum of $23,737,038,657.61 debt to the Paris Club, from liquid cash in their foreign exchange reserve of over $300 billion and not to mention their surplus of $82 billion of oil revenues in their Stabilization funds.
Let me tell you that America or the U.S can’t paid any real liquid cash of such magnitude without borrowing. Do you know your debt? It is a gargantuan $5.8 trillion of which $2.5 trillion is being serviced by foreign countries.
Russians aren’t worried about such things like 5th generation stealth aircrafts now.They just want to get something on a par for export markets if need be.
They are interested in developing state-of-the art ICBMs to do the job when the situation arises. They are not thinking about jets to do the job,but rather sophiscated ICBMs the like of Bulava unparalled in the world to do the annihilation once and for all, so that you don’t come out of tha ash the next 30 times to boast.
Now dismantle any American aircraft or piece of military or civilian hardware and check to see if 90% of computerised components-semiconductors are not from Japan in the 60,s and recently from Taiwan and South Korea. That alone tells you a lot.Do the same thing to any Russian hardware produced in the 60,s to 90,s and you would find that all are Russian,no matter the quality.