[Thermalseeker]

Aside from the Raptor, we don’t have anything that can go toe to toe with this beast.

Our fighters wouldn't have to go "toe to toe" with the SU-35. With the radar cross section and heat signature this thing generates it would be killed from over the horizon, likely from multiple directions......

[GBA]

The same could be said for all of our aircraft as well, other than the B-2, F-22 and possibly the B-1B, which is why everyone uses all sorts of jamming and decoys. But. sooner or later, you have to find out if your airplanes and that Top Gun training are effective or did obama and Gates stop that training program too?

[myknowledge]

But killing the Su-35 with a Slammer is hard, because it has an OLS-35 (its IRST), which can easily detect the Slammer’s missile plume and the pilot can either pull up or dive down to dodge the AMRAAM (since it cannot pull terminal G) while deploying a burst of chaff.

The Su-35 pilot would keep doing this until he reaches the merge and engages in a WVR dogfight, where it would excel.