You are still talking about aircraft in terms of generations as if anybody cares.

The Super Hornet and Euro canards were also optimised for air-superiority but TVC was never a requirement, why?

What’s a 5G jet?
All Euro canards, Super Hornets, Su-34s, MiG-29Ks, don’t have TVC, why should the J-20 have it? The only combat aircraft being developed at the moment with TVC that I know of are the Su-35 and T-50.

Looks like a reverse engineered Russian engine with sightly different nozzle.

Wheres that thrust vectoring?

Why should it have thrust vectoring? Most new combat aircraft being delivered or will delivered in the world don’t have thrust vectoring.

A lot of interesting info, Spudman – of interest to me also:

F-35 Deliveries

 41 F-35s have been delivered to the Department of Defense:
 12 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) aircraft
 29 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) aircraft, including two international F-35s

System Development and Demonstration (SDD) Fleet
14 F-35s comprise the SDD test fleet. There are six F-35As assigned to Edwards AFB, Calif., and five F-35Bs along with three F-35Cs stationed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.

Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Aircraft
 There are 22 LRIP F-35s based at Eglin AFB, Fla.
 There are 2 LRIP F-35s based at PAX River NAS, Maryland.
 There are 2 LRIP F-35s based at Edwards AFB, Calif.
 There are 3 LRIP F-35s based at MCAS Yuma, Ariz.
 There are 7 LRIP F-35s undergoing checkout flights at the F-35 production facility in Fort Worth, Texas

Wouldn’t the Venezuelans be interested in some spare F-16 engines? Can the engines from an F-16C be fitted to and F-16A? (GE or P&W?)

And you need to watch your reading skills

And you should watch your mouth. . .

The Bulgarian flight instructor makes it clear in the article that the avionics and weapons systems were not really been assessed in the combat exercise. It was an exercise to just see who get on each others tail for a gun kill. The F-16D Block 50 and a 1980s MiG-29UB are on different planets regarding their weapons and avionics.:rolleyes: Nice article though.

And have you got a picture of that? What’s the internal fuel load?