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The article explores Georgia's relative success against the Russian air force and the failure of Syria's Russian-made air defenses against the Israeli air force. U.S. analysts suggest that the simplicity of the Georgian air defenses, with far less dependence on networking, made it tougher to knock out or blind major parts of the system. The exploitability of Russian-designed and -built defenses was demonstrated in 2007 when the Israeli air force totally shut down Syrian air defenses prior to bombing a suspected nuclear site.

Reports the domination of Sukhoi projects in the fifth-generation fighter plane competition in Russia. Concept of the company's fighter plane design; Reflection of the relationship between the Russian air force and Sukhoi; Leadership of Sukhoi in the country's aerospace industry.