The S-500 is the THAAD type system, the S-400 is a straight-up SAM system with a limited ATBM capability.

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2007/08/samoderzhets-decloaked.html

That is just a myth, the myth that Soviet and Russian technology was inferior and still is inferior

He said it was the product support (spares and the like) that was inferior, not the products themselves. You have purposely misread what was probably the most sensible post in this thread.

combat records acknowledged by the west

You really do not want to go there, lest we get into false Eastern reporting of MiG-29s downing F-117s or phantom B-2 shootdowns.

this was even more evident when a 1960s SAM destroyed an F-117

That had nothing to do with the quality of the 1970’s design.

or when they claimed the AH-64 Apache losses in combat conditions were accidents and the machine showed its good share of bugs and unsuitability for combat use

A lot of them were accidents. There have been confirmed instances of insurgents in Iraq even filming terrorists near crashed helicopters and claiming that they were shot down. At any rate the Apache was shown to have had a number of issues in Yugoslavia, but it had no problems in 1991 in the Middle East as far as I recall.

The MiG-29 had AA-10, wich are AIM-7 equivalents and AA-11 which had no equivalent at the time, so Russia in 1985 had the MiG-29 that was pretty well an F-15 equivalent

The first R-73s were earmarked for Su-27 units, so in 1985 your average MiG-29 unit may or may not have had any of them on hand. And the MiG-29 was never an F-15 equivalent, it was not a long-range air superiority fighter. That was the Su-27. The MiG-29 was an F-16 type aircraft that had the early advantage over the Lawn Dart of that pair of BVR weapons.

However it would depend if A-50 and IL-78 small fleet could assist them in at least a comparable way as american force multipliers.

The Il-78 wasn’t a factor. Neither the MiG-29 nor the Su-27 had IFR capability. The A-50 was not a serious factor either, as the Soviets were using a GCI structured air defense network.

Here’s one of the aforementioned HAS’s that got bombed at BIAP, seen by yours truly in the summer of 2004.

All these Soviet equivalents to American aviation achievements arrive 10 years after their american compatriots…

That’s the way it works, one side develops something, and the other side must come up with a counter.

For the U-2 they had the M-55

No they didn’t, the M-17/M-55 were never fielded operationally. And the M-17 was originally conceived as a balloon interceptor anyway.

for the B-1B they have the Tu-160

The Tu-160 and the B-1B are not on the same page. The Tu-160 is an intercontinental ALCM launcher, while the B-1B was a low-altitude strategic penetrator (never operationally received ALCM capability). In terms of role, the Tu-160 can be equated to the B-52H, while in terms of capability, it can be equated to the cancelled B-1A.

novator vympel missile KS you call Lraam is doing just fine.

It’s the Novator KS-172S-1, Vympel has nothing to do with it (they make the R-37).

Being a heavy multirole aircraft primarily intended to perform strike missions, I’d say that the Su-34 is the F-15E equivalent, not an F-111 equivalent!

At any rate the Su-34 is clearly superior to the legacy Aardvark thanks in no small part to more modern avionics, a wider range of PGMs, better stand-off capability, and the ability to actually defend itself and even perform capably in an active air-to-air role.

Further, the payload is not as limited as the B-58 since the FB-111A can carry up to 24 conventional bombs. However, this requires external carriage which restricts the wing sweep and degrades the range.

The inner four (two on each side) pylons could sweep with the wing. That’s still 24 500lb bombs without having to use the draggy outer pylons. The FB-111A did have a number of faults, but one has to remember that it was only intended to be an interim bomber, after all.

a typical Tu-22M can carry six X-15 and two X-22 and does not need any external fuel tank at all

The Tu-22M3 is the only variant to carry the Kh-15.