They are okay, but no match for US and Israeli pilots.
Thats my point...raise ur hand if ur country has very highly trained military that has years of actual combat experience. Oh wait.....and yes while Russia has done a few things, give me a break......all those pictures of them bombing the shit out of the Georgian capital...folks that was supposed to be precision bombing. They suck, they have a huge rusting military. Yes in few years they could be a relative threat, with their petro dollars etc...but they are much more dangerous locally, not globally. Two bombers, without refuelers, AWACS, fighter escort are near worthless. Of all the things we're really good at, we're really really really good at knocking ur shit down, sinking ur shit, and jamming ur shit. I don't believe we'd even need to send any manned aircraft to sink the vaunted Venezuelan navy. Its easier to do that then take down a small village sitting on some Afghan mountain.