hello

You have no logic, just troll bias.

The Typhoon is a smaller and supposedly stealthier plane than the Flanker series, with an RCS on par with the SuperBug, around 0.1m^2, against the Flanker's big-target 4-5m^2. Even if the Sukhoi's radar is a bit better, it still won't see the Typhoon before it gets seen. If Meteor and AA-12 are both present, than the Typhoon has an advantage with the longer-range Meteor. Otherwise, it's still good enough with AIM-120C-5 vs AA-10. And if the Sentrys participate, the Flanker's radar advantage goes out the window, since the Typhoons will have full-blown AWACS support.

That way, the Typhoons can react first and kill the Flankers first by sending the Flankers into evasion and pressing on with a BVR flank in a merging fight. With supercruise, the Typhoons have the choice to drop their tanks and get away from a WVR situation, while the MKIs must afterburn to keep up(who cares about endurance when your 'burning).

TVC gives the Sukhoi a clear WVR advantage, but as I said, the Typhoon can negate any advantage the Sukhoi has.

Are you comparing the AMRAAM's effective pK range to the R77's maximum kinetic energy range? Where did you get that 18 miles?

Here's a link that says:

Now what does 'excess of 30 miles' and '60km++' mean? That's just the AMRAAM A version, mind you.

And here, the AMRAAM C-5 range is said to be '>105km'.

So, we can only rely on rough figures here.