Got to watch Apollo 10 to 17 from Brevard County. 10 - 13 from just 12 miles away. What a glorious machine especially the night launch of 17.

Thrust vectoring wasn't really designed for dog fights. it was mainly used for high altitude maneuvers where the plane's flight surfaces have less effect due to less air molecules to work with. Trying to dog fight against fighters with modern missiles is suicidal.

I believe more that only the US is and has been capable of building such a high-tech stealth plane, Russia does make planes, but conventional ones, and China lives off the theft of technology, but it is still very far from this technology, remember that the US tried Their first stealth planes in 1989 during the invasion of Panama, and they entered without problems and in the IRAQ war in the same way, they have only shot down a single stealth plane and it was due to the pilot's forgetfulness that he forgot to close the hatch

The Soviets may of claimed to have made the first ones with the Fulcrum or flanker but did they get the idea of thrust vectoring from from the flying bedstead that Rolls-Royce designed for jet powered VTOL as the UK invented jet powered VTOL with the Harrier jump jet ? They also copied the P.1154 Hawker Siddeley supersonic engine which is what the F35B uses today and realised that the nozzle on the afterburners could direct the thrust! The British could easily build this but a tight arsed government wouldn’t fund it

Why are people still discussing and wasting lots of money on old concepts and technology? Unmanned aerial vehicles with advanced sensor technology and AI systems are capable of performing maneuvers that no human could endure, and do it at a lower cost and with greater capabilities. The age of the dogfight is quickly coming to an end with stand-off weapons and AI systems.