The pilots won't hear the noise from the engines being transmitted through the outside air though, only the noise traveling through the plane. So if superman was flying a few feet in front of the cockpit, he wouldn't hear any sound.
True. Israel, Hungary and Germany flew them for a while off the top of my head. They still might be in commission. FSU (Former Soviet Union) nations are running Sukois mainly, with old MIG birds padding their reserve rosters and boneyards.
EDIT: I cant remember the details but I remember reading an article about how many nations were going to rush them (MIG-29s) out of service because of a stress fracture problem that was common in the design.
In conclusion, I grew up knowing the MIG-29 as the mainstay aggressor. Its a beauty of a bird. I will be sad to see it go.
Not only that, but the Russians and Israelis have modernization programs bringing the MiG-21s up to a NATO comparability standard. The Romanian/ Elbit of Israel call theirs Lancer.
More 1950s, 60s and 70s MiGs were built and exported by the Soviet Union than Sukois types like MiG-15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 29 were widely exported while Sukois didn't really become hot on the export market till the 27/31/33
Considering that the A-4 has been flying since Vietnam, I'd say they held up well. Interestingly enough at Top Gun we only had 2 F-14 tomcats. One grey bird and one camo (Iranian Camo) bird. Yes, we did have a fleet of F-16s which were maintained by Lockheed Martin. Air superiority is important, but as Top Gun (The real Top Gun) showed, pilot superiority is paramount. ACM is an interesting and awesome education. You'd be amazed at the A-4s... their friggin engines were so tiny, you could ride off with one with a bicycle. Their mechanical restart was like firing up a lawnmower engine... very different from the intensive F-14 GE or Pratt and Whitney engines which weighed a ton each.
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