The early MiG-29 was a KISS project and it doesn’t sound like it was meant to match F-15’s missile for missile because it was designed with a quantitative edge in mind. I know when it’s capabilities were exposed just after the breakup the only real eye opener was the Archer-helmet combination which we knew left us with a deficit in WVA capability. Otherwise it’s bvr component was never really an issue.

The rot you speak of is still light years better quality than 97% of the equipment out there. The sad reality is that much of the spending is either dark or black and nobody publicly knows where the money goes. One has to ask why DHS has bought 2500 armored vehicles and 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the past five years. That is a good place to begin cuts.

Acceleration is so poor on the F-35 that the chaseplane F-16’s have to wait at the end of the runway for them to catch up. Wait a minute.

Demonstration and operational are well defined and understood by the target audience of this forum. Your language barrier is creating controversy only for you, emile. Please restrain your commentary per the forum code of conduct.

From my experience the mind of a undeveloped world class citizen is far from empty and perhaps more full of ideas (not always healthy) than the mind of a developed world class deejay. The former tends to over compensate for their lack of high tech ownership in others ways, sometimes in ways that are borderline genius. Don’t think for one minute that people in the undeveloped world are stupid, idiots, or morons.

How about a pair of Honeywell F124 mounted opposite sides of the body like on an A-10. H-tail. Centerline universal cannon mount. (Choice of M61, M179, BK 27, DEFA 553, FIAT 30, GSh-23L. or GSh-30.) Internal bay for two 500kg/1000# PGM, straight wings with multiple racks and one 1100L per wing. Tandem seating. Cross between A-37 and A-10.

The F-22 uses a sophisticated lamination process that is more relative to air brushing than molding. Their canopy looks semitransparent, hardly something one would want to trust with their life.