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I wouldn't say that just yet as Sukhoi has made the PAK-FA, which is in the class of the F-22 and uses the same engines and avionics as the Mig-29 OVT. Also the PAK-FA is being sold to India and possibly Iran. See what the USA is doing to Pakistan, only ripping it off with knock off avionics which are actually very primitive. See the incident of the F-117 nighthawk that got shot down over the USSR by a basic soviet missile, search: "Stealth F-117 destroyed by 1956 USSR technology" on google. For further readings, search "1960 U-2 incident", also on google search. Also, the Russians were masters of the aerospace industry for decades and even now, so give them some slack, did Pakistan send a man into space or make a space shuttle, I don't think so. So stop being soo Pro American and get your facts straight.
USA rips off everyone. But Pakistan is no longer dependent on them. We are getting what we get from their OWN cash, for WOT. Though Pakistan deserves way more than that.
PAK-FA going to Iran? Well, we heard about S-300 SAMs going to them, which now is kinda itself in trouble. Forget PAK-FAs and that too in 2017.
About Russian Aerospace industry, i would praise them and put them on a level as professional as any western, Indian, Pakistani and Chinese. The problem is, after the cold war ended, there was no use of spending money. Actually they didn't have any. So the funds dried up.
As an engineer i have learned a lot about Russian-Soviet engineers/scientists. Brilliant, from electromagnetism to aerospace to nuclear. The problem is funding of research. So it will take time for them to regain.