Indeed, LO. I think the point is that the Ruskies build aircraft to a pretty standard design these days. It's just that the shape gets refined, smoothed, stealthified, etc and the engines made ever bigger. The shape they have is inherently controllable (through software) with canards, huge wing surface area AND tailplanes/stabs/tailerons/whatever AND thrust vectoring (in some cases).
The 360 degree 'flip' in Orac's vid is impressive, but still a low energy manoeuvre. Is it tactical? I don't know. I can't deny it would be surprising to watch that happen in a fight, but it doesn't present much of a navigation challenge to a missile and I doubt it gives the Ruskie pilot much time to select a target. lock and shoot during the manourve.