Su-35S: News

The difference between Russia and the USA is that when you start to hear talk about radio-photonic radars that means
they are not some rumination on a chalkboard but about to hit release.    America yapped about hypersonic systems for
decades yet does not even have supersonic anti-ship missiles (as you noted elsewhere).   America is the land of snake
oil salesmen and PR hype.   Russia is a "backward" country taught by over 1000 years of brutal history to be ready.

And the failure of the USSR is not an actual failure.   The USSR was supposed to doom Russia to oblivion and was a
PC cultural revolution (hence Trotsky) regime change operation sponsored by the US, UK, Germany and likely other
frothing at the mouth Russian enemies.   They even had a direct analogue of Soros at the time pulling the same
shit.  Trotsky was clearly a tool of Russia's western enemies and his tour to the USA to raise money demonstrates this.  
Canada was supposed to extradite him to Russia for crimes of sedition but only detained him briefly to continue his
fund raising tour. That he even got visas to tour the world shows you that he had backers. Supposedly being
some revolutionary out to destroy capitalism means jack shit.   We see the US supporting jihadis that routinely chant
death to America and western decadence.  

Things went off the rails for the western masterminds when Stalin took over in 1925.  That is why Stalin is poured over
with excrement to this day.   Just like Putin is when comprador bootlick Yeltsin, whose job was to destroy Russia, gets
praises sung to his name.   The USSR was supposed to lose to the Nazis.   That is why Hitler was so cocksure about
the USSR being a "rotten facade".   Hitler was also a tool of western elites and this was clear in the role of the USA
and UK of propping him up during the 1930s. This includes giving him an ideological base from Eugenics.   We have
bitching about some non-existent alliance between Hitler and Stalin supposedly proven by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact,
but the USSR never supplied whole factories and oil to Nazi Germany, it supplied food.   US companies were supplying
the Nazis with oil even during WWII and US bankers were bankrolling Hitler from day one.   That is what Prescott Bush
did and you see how his descendants became US presidents.  

Russians made the USSR viable.   It would have disappeared before 1930 if the original plan was going to work.
It was designed to crumble into pieces and the identity politics BS of making every regional dialect into a republic
and cockamamie borders were precisely for this purpose.   That includes Nagorno-Karabakh and Novorussia.
After the USSR finally went the way it was supposed to decades earlier thanks to the rotten ambitions of the
nomenklatura who were "deprived" of being rich, Russia has managed to achieve what is basically not seen
around the world, to change systems at the core level while in flight.   That's like rebuilding a standing house
at the brick level.   And the precious west has not just been standing by the side doing nothing.  They have
been trying to break up Russia as hard as they can.   Nobody but nobody in the whole of NATzO and most
of the world expected Russia to revive like it has.   This is not some trivial accident.  That is the people
working hard to make it happen.   Western imperial meddlers judge Russians by the standards of their own
populations.  I would bet that any western country experiencing similar interference would have disintegrated.
Westerners would not work for no pay like Russian defense workers during the 1990s which gave us the
military innovation we have been seeing since then.   (People claiming Russia is coasting on Soviet legacy
are full of shit).

The above is on topic since technology reflects real human effort.   Not hype or chauvinism.

The six at Khmeimim are out of the Lipetsk and Akhtubinsk totals?

Also there was a mention of Su-35 deliveries back the end of October or first of November on the MoD weekly report page.

Another advantage of gold plating the canopies is that if you put an electric current though it it doesn't steam up or ice up....

But enemy radar signals are absorbed by the gold and converted into tiny amounts of heat apparently...

According to your post #889, one aircraft has been retired so that would leave 97 active.

Read that the new upgraded Su-30SM2 will share engines, radars and other devices from the Su-35S making them more compatible and simplify logistics / repairs. They will in effect become the 2-seat version of the Su-35. Plans are that over time all the Su-30SM's will be brought up to SM2 standards.