The fallacy of your reasoning assumes that Russian aviation industry can produce F-22 like fighter. No evidence points to this being even close to the truth. On top of this, you assume Kremlin propaganda is truth and American propaganda is false. Who has better living standards? Despite their troubles, they are living amazingly well compared to the average Russian, even more so now they have screwed Russian economy with fracking and trade sanctions. So F-35 propaganda automatically false and kremlin propaganda is true. Okay sure. Any plane hit by bird will have problems especially single engined ones. That's true for Chinese, American, and Russian planes. So your inclusion of that as some sort of evidence to F-35's shortcomings is confusing and worthless. There is no concrete proof that USAF 5th gen fighters are significantly more delicate compared to legacy ones. The only people who keep shouting this are the F-35 detractors and Russian chauvinists. The official USAF sources claim otherwise and yes they have an incentive to, but so do these Russians and the typical paid detractors. They have an obvious agenda as well. Is it a coincidence that the official sources have now shut up (they don't have anything to prove since they know the capability of their fighter) and the typical trolls are still at it even now 5 years in, they invent more bs crap that keeps getting debunked. I used to be part of that group, they are convincing but doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.
Let's just take this as an example, too lazy to dig deeper.
Comparing fighters by living standards is incredibly comprehensive. Ah, no, it's actually not.
Again, short:
1.science on air combat continuously develop in Russian military institutes and alike, just like in any other country big enough. Perhaps direction is somewhat different, but overall views on "what is 5th gen fighter", "do we need one" and "what we need it for" aren't produced just on forums or by Mr.Putin himself.
Moreover, larger part of these requirements and views dates back to the times if the Soviet Union.
2.Soviet Union knew about stealth. Russia also does. Probably more than guys on forums, because, again, it's military science.
3.fighter was designed to perform a range of given tasks within given conditions.
Design was specifically checked to meet these requirements. If it couldn't meet them even on the drawing board, well, it wouldn't had been started and/or given a "go" to begin with.
4.most of them have no relationship to stupid solo or even group duel between 5th gen fighters whatsoever. But still it's quite an obvious air superiority platform.
5.unrelated, but AFAIC, mig-41 is a real program. Other "details" are mostly fanboish, though.
