One thing I always like about Rooshian aircraft is that they can often operate from pretty low quality air strips (e.g. gravel, ice)
Russki airstrips are concrete slabs, rather like sidewalk slabs. They heave in winter, and if you cut the runways, they have spare slabs stocked at various places round the runway, and can rearrange the sand underneath, then drop a slab back in place. and It is tough to close down a Rooski runway.
On the other hand, their landing gear is heavier than USAF (lighter than US Navy aircraft) and they often have an arrangement that sucks air from the top of the wing at takeoff, so that they don’t vacuum crud from the runway into their inlets.
Smart engineers, working for a government that stinks more than ours.