Russia's MiG-21 is old compared to the F-22 or F-35 stealth fighter. the People’s Republic of China acquired sufficient aircraft and technical documents to reverse engineer the MiG-21 into The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) (Arabic: القوات الجوية المصرية, romanized: El Qūwāt El Gawīyä El Maṣrīya), is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces that is responsible for all airborne defence missions and operates all military aircraft, including those used in support of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy and the Egyptian Air Defense Forces. Given the fact that the F-35's engine, which is a derivative of the F-22's engine, but newer & bigger than the F119 engine, has a thrust of 39,900lbf with round nozzles, it's likely the 35,000lbf fig for F119 is also for round nozzles. F-35's engine F-135, just recently got its thrust upgraded to 43,000lbf. Originating as the U.S. response to the Soviet Union’s Mach 3 MiG-25 interceptor, the Mach 2.5 F-15 was built around a massive radar and sized to carry large long-range counter-air missiles. Beyond its large size (20 percent larger than the F-35), it was engineered before the advent of computers and digital fly-by-wire systems. The "new" MiG-29SMT was split into two models, airframe numbers 9.18 and 9.19, and was developed throughout the early 2000s not only as Russia's new frontline fighter to replace the older MiG-29s, but also as a proper 4+ generation upgrade for export customers still using the older MiG-29A and MiG-29S, and as such was redesigned from the ground up. MIG-29 vs F-35. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast F-14s vs MiG-28s - May 1986, a Danger Zone in the Indian Ocean. The United States Air Force deployed the F-35 for 18 consecutive months from April 2019 until October 2020 in the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility with hundreds of weapons employments in support of U.S. service members and their allies. Defining Possible at Northrop Grumman Means Producing the F-35 1,000th Center Fuselage. F-22s had to be recalled from Syria as the stealth was utterly useless against new early warning radars and directed Su-27 type fighters. You will soon see the F-22 retired like the F-117 after it was shot down. Stealth is dead and is being replaced by electronic warfare. This is the only reason the F-35 still will be produced. Stealth vs Stealth. Key point: Russia's Su-35 is a pretty good plane and would fight well. Russia’s Su-35 fighter certainly has western defense outlets buzzing--and for good reason. Moscow In short, if the Cold War had turned hot during the 1970s, the F-4 Phantom would have probably proven itself to be the better airplane than the MiG-23 Flogger. If anything shows, it is the fact that hundreds of Phantoms still flew in front-line service in the early 21st Century. Even though the F-4 had retired in 1996, it still flew unmanned Z5ibD3i.