Which is valid, not in war thunder but makes a good point we know China and Russia are behind on Western power plants while they can produce engines that have excellent performance rebuild and maintenance windows are more frequent.
they are not anymore, that was certainly true during the soviet times and the 90’s to early 2k’s but they caught up, the Al-31FN series 5 has 5/6k hours mtbo iirc and produces as much thrust as the AL-41F1S of the Su-35S
And tbh the engine capabilities of China changes every few uears. If u think about it, J8F to J20 took less than a decade. This might not be the case for engine but just that this stuff changes so quickly.
It has ok Gs just doesn’t hit most of the time. With this type of range, u are given like minutes to dodge, unless it is an EWC or AEWC aircraft you will easily get away, just that it forces u off the mission.
That’s their account. The hit rate is ultra low, but since quite a lot are fired quite a lot of jets were shot down. Most of the time it just forces defensive manoeuvres which stops u from getting things done.