ask the Jews.. they fought against Polish mig-29s and had a lot to say.

There are Jews in the U.S. too…

I would be extremely interested to read opinions of F-15 and MiG-29 pilots about the opponents’ aircraft during exercises, something like the F-16 vs MiG-29 stories published. Is there any similar style F-15 vs MiG-29 article somewhere by any chance ? Thanks.

I’ll bet my bottom dollar such engagements have been played out over the desert skies of Nevada. MiG-29A/C vs. F-15A/C.

Weren’t most of them destroyed?
The remaining units in storage are hardly airworthy and the few(?) flyable samples presumably are used to test other systems.

I do not believe so… Perhaps some whose airframes had little time left on them, or were not salvageable, were scrapped. Even then, if there is the slightest chance they would be reactivated, grounded airframes would be a great source of spare parts.

The F-117’s were retired a few years ago. They remain in flyable storage in their old desert home, at Tonopah. Theoretically, the could be brought back into service, but that would be a significant exercise. The USAF would have to find pilots that were current on the type, preferably IPs, then get them current again. Each aircraft, brought back into service, would have to be slightly refurbished and brought to airworthy status. AFAIK, the USAF still runs the engines on some examples, so there wouldn’t be too much to do there. One F-117 was even seen flying around Area-51 bac kin 2010. Next, would come the integration with the USAF’s current battle plan, which left the F-117 out. I don’t think they could even deploy GPS-guided munitions at this point.

I think it would be manned, with an option to have it “optionally manned” in later blocks. It was written around when the JSf started that this would be the last manned fighter, and that UCAV’s will be taking over most missions into the future. Fast forward, the JUCAS , X-45,47 etc are going no where, the USAF next big project LRS-B will most likely be manned.

We’ll see… There is still the financial aspect of the project. The U.S. government isn’t in the best position for such ventures.

The DPRK has nuclear weapons with a very young and perhaps naive person holding the keys. They will threaten and sabre-rattle on that until they get what they want. Facing the U.S. and the South, they will perish and dear leader could care less about that.

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